The Masnavi of Giti and Saeed - Footnotes and Glossary Part one
...Literary and Cultural Terms
Masnavi (also Mathnawi): A classical Persian poetic form consisting of rhyming couplets with a continuous narrative. The most famous example is Rumi's Masnavi-ye Ma'nav...
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Categories:
personal experience, cute love,
Form: Prose
The Perils of Adolescence
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Soon after I reached adolescence,
my father gave me a brief advisory
on the pitfalls of feminine “geography”
based on his personal experience.
Dear boy, he began, if at all possible,
ke...
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Categories:
personal experience, analogy,
Form: Light Verse
Why we should stop calling it the pre-tribulation rapture Q and A part one
...Q Why does Bob Barber want us to stop calling it,"the pre-tribulation rapture?"
A "Because of the mid-tribulations, who believe the rapture won't happen until
the mid-point of the tribulat...
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Categories:
personal experience, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Prose
Connecting the dots part fifteen, Artificial Intelligence, is really angel intelligence Q and A
...Q Why should artificial intelligence be called angel intelligence?
A "Because it is really (fallen) angel intelligence." "Satan thinks he's so smart
but God is only going to let him have ...
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Categories:
personal experience, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Prose
If ye benevolent reader count yourself as a wise married man such as m
...If ye benevolent reader count yourself as a wise married man such as me...
(truer words never spoken nor written)
take my word and decline
and absolutely refuse to take masterly crafted bait
vide...
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Categories:
personal experience, absence, adventure, allegory, america,
Form: Free verse
Beneath the twilight's veil, I ponder
...Beneath the twilight's veil, I ponder,
On the path of wisdom, not granted but discovered,
We traverse a labyrinth of silent nights,
Seeking light where shadows reign.
In the ethereal corridors of...
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Categories:
personal experience, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Since The Very First Dawn
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Think of the most beautiful woman
You've ever laid your eyes upon
And the feeling of passion it stirred inside
Men have felt since the very first dawn
Only speaking from personal ex...
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Categories:
personal experience, day,
Form: Rhyme
Freedom to Taste and See
...Our green campus favorite
MuseSpeech Teacher
always hosted outside seminars
at noon,
Sharp!
And served chocolates
while mentoring
Her systemic theology
"Doesn't get on well
with academic...
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Categories:
personal experience, beauty, health, heaven, humor,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
- Artist - PS -
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Art creates balance in my life
it's not regards my genius creativity
The search for the right line or a brilliant sentence
an expression that challenges myself
I wish to decorate ...
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Categories:
personal experience, art, life, poetry, words,
Form: Other
Why Is It
...Why is it?
the louder
and more ballistic
my self-righteousness
offensively becomes
The more
at night
I feel self-loathing,
when all is quiet
except dark ruminations
filling my silent bedr...
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Categories:
personal experience, anxiety, culture, happiness, health,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Guidance
...It was during the summer of 1974,
That three states came beckoning me.
One state pointed North; the other East.
The third state was directing me South.
One was 95 miles away; one was 790 miles;
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Categories:
personal experience, god, prayer,
Form: Narrative
Getting To Old
...I often hear,
"It's tough getting old."
I never hear
"It's tougher not getting old"
because, I suppose,
those who might have spoken
from personal experience
are no longer with us.
I am be...
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Categories:
personal experience, age, anxiety, appreciation, health,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Dreams
...I have no doubt that every night, I dream.
But most times, by morning I forget, it seems.
Sometimes, if I try really hard, I will recall.
Even then, there are bits and pieces, and that is all.
In...
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Categories:
personal experience, dream,
Form: Verse
Gay Or Straight Or Anything In Between
...Thirty years working as an Early Childhood teacher,
With spells working with children of all ages,
Including teenagers with messed up lives,
Has taught me that gay or straight,
Or anything in bet...
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Categories:
personal experience, age, appreciation, baptism, care,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Break the Mirror
...Do we break the mirror of life, to reach the other side. ...
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Categories:
personal experience, life, mystery, time, today,
Form: Free verse
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