Certainly there was some light
An infinite sky over my head
Nurturing soil under my feet,
But what my life offered me
were only the darkest shadows.
DAY 3
This is in response to Prateek’s Five Photos, Five Stories Challenge. Thank you Prateek for giving me this wonderful opportunity.
The challenge is – “Post a photo each day for five consecutive days and attach a story to the photo. It can be fiction or non-fiction, a poem or a short paragraph and each day nominate another blogger for the challenge”
My Nomination for Day 3 is Darshith.
Kritika Vashist
From the Soul to the nib of the Pen 
wow! That poem is very deep.. Nice one..
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Thank you.
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That’s lovely, Kritika! The lament of the spent bloom! So poignant!
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Thanks so much, Rob! 🙂 ♥
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You reminded me of a Ghalib couplet
“Is khana-e-hasti sey guzar jaaoonga be-laus
Saya hun, faqat naksh-ba-deewar nahin hun”
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Sar me dard itna ha ke samajh nahi aa raha.
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Khana-e-hasti (this dwelling of life i.e. the world) be-laus (without leaving an imprint)
naqsh-ba-deewar (fresco)
I am a mere shadow ephemeral, not a fresco gouged out and painted on the wall of this world. The translation takes away the magic..
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Yes, it does. Itni Urdu nahi aati abhi. Ab samajh gayi. Thank you, Himanshu 🙂
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“But what my life offered me
were only the darkest shadows.”
As always stunning lines.
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Thank you, Pooja ❤
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Thank you Kritika for nominating me for this great challenge. I will write on it very soon. And, your poem Shadows is so deep meaning. Loved it. Not all endings are happy endings, not times are happy times. And the weird thing is, I was thinking about Shadows a while ago as there was no electricity and here it is a deep significant poem on Shadows 🙂
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If you wish to you may accept or decline.
Oh! Wow. There are many thoughts that can be written on shadows. I had many on my mind but I’m a slacker, you know.
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Slacker alert here also 😛 Of course I accept 😀 Yeah we all possess such different perspectives that it becomes interesting to know how others see the World 🙂
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Oh yes, absolutely!
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Beautiful 😊
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Thank you 🙂
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Wow Kritika! Drained out of words after reading the last line.
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I hope it rains soon!
Thank you as always.
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