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Winter Blues: Come My sweet charity (memoir from Raula's Winter Blues Cabin)

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raula   

^^^^"hooyada waa lama huraan" :D

 

Academic menopause

 

“The brain is wider than the Skyâ€

Emily Dickinson was somewhat right

Nowadays my mind seems comatose

No efforts to utilize the simplest tasks

The tiniest fathoms takes minutes

Sometimes even the result is blank

More like my sympathetic system is shutdown

Employing the parasympathetic coordination

Where my erotic sensibilities, theological challenges,

Visual liveliness and vigor, political range, versatility,

Has been slowed down to accommodate

The early stage of rational menopause

 

Oh my meager collection of intellectual archives

Is under the invasion of a mental COUP

 

I am consoled by friends that It’s one of life’s stage

Perhaps I am exaggerating, but is a huge worry

I cannot compose a simple thought, or if I do

I loose track of the initial necessitation

There used to be a sense of guided tour in my senses

At the moment there is a cloud of asymmetry,

Reclusiveness, strangeness, anonymously,

Depth of darkness, muddy oil tank, obscurity,

Generalized mysteriously unrequited love

My accomplishments seem like a barefoot rank

No philanthropically nebulous in the future horizon

As I always dreamed of…….speaking of dreams

They are like a traditional poet composing a piece

By breaking a line where there is no syntactic pause

Unrealistic and bizarre, or even over-romantic

 

Now realizing my insufficiency, I have adopted

To the notion of memory relapses and absences

The things that is constant with me now

Are the exalted scripture-the Quran and Hadiths

As I read to boost my memory and divine gain

Indeed no knowledge, worldly experiences

Are ingrained and beneficial forever except

Those that are prescribed and are true revelations,

A guidance and the encyclopedia of our mystified world

……………………………. the words of Allah s.w.

 

As I fight for the salvage of worldly archives

I hope I only remember the best of memories

And those that will enhance my deeds Youmul-qiyaama

Academic menopause is acquisitiveness

But divine menopause is remorseless……………..

Keep your beliefs solid; for sure this world is cold

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raula   

Upgraded Ayeeyo

 

Her mind is set; she has no fear any more

Time for embarrassments and introversion is over

In her mind she was striving for words due to Dementia

“Oh what a heaven of freedom. I am going for the goldâ€

She uttered, but meant the gold tanning lotion

She was determined; no faarax is going to make me sink

Garbasaar and Dirac, are you crazy? She thought

Why in god’s world when I can have J.LO’s champagne collection

It was Sunday night when she concluded that it was time

Time to UPGRADE, while hypnotic over “Desperate housewivesâ€

;)

 

to be continued. Do add if you please.

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BOB   

Originally posted by raula:

Garbasaar and Dirac, are you crazy? She thought

Why in god’s world when I can have J.LO’s champagne collection

Give me a Garbasaar and Dirac wearing girl over millions of J-LO champagnes anytime of the day all day long...they say "Once you go Xaliimo you'll never go Xhanti"!

 

Peace,Love & Unity.

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raula   

Iam in Hibernation season..I am compounded by MENTAL MENOPAUSE(not really academic)+ Seasonal Affective disorder icon_razz.gif (istaqfurulah)...And shock from yesterday's winter storm..so perhaps no creative writing for me till i supersede my block. Gosh though i had fun back in the days!

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hodman   

^^^ It takes a storm like that to remind us what MN has in store for the next few months. SAD looks like a real possibility if this goes on. :(

Every winter I daydream of moving away to somewhere warm and then spring comes along and I don't remember till tha next one

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BOB   

I'm glad you did that because Raula was truly one of a kind and very very talented Maasha Allah.

 

I hope and pray that she's doing ok wherever she is Insha Allah.

 

 

Peace, Love & Unity.

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raula   

^^^Mandhow iga daa dee, yaanan mayacin!. N'ways its was great days! Thanks again, but i am still awaiting the day when i will be fighting to get a copy of your collection icon_razz.gif waa gormaa! Say hi to little "B" by the way.

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BOB   

Great days indeed. B has grown up now Maasha Allah. Why don't you write new stuff anymore? come on give us few more PLEASE.

 

 

Peace, Love & Unity.

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raula   

^^Iam trying-less time, perhaps not much of mental stimulation for writing. Here is one that is unfinished/untitled..will finish soon!

 

At some corner of her despondent mind

The fumes of haunting unruly corpses and vultures

Of tribal politics, still poignant, linger by her hairy nostrils

What do you hear laughing one?

How the ogre of cultural complacency,

Swept the fruitful progeny of this country,

By the talismanic current of sudden realization

That your ancenstoral shadows shall rest upon

The highest throne, like armpits of a goddess,

Shield you like a palm, cusped, nesting on a thorn

Your love for your country, your fate,

is immeasurable ardor for your clan, without equal!

Holding your country by the throat

so feast on the implausible pleasure,

whistle on money you do not reckon

laugh at the sight of the sordid poor,

whom you have stripped off their bucolic fidelity

to the piece of earth that gave them life and liberty

the mighty soil that soothes their lineage’s souls

you cavern of a cruel heart,

have you not have flattened the horizon of this country?

 

from distant, I smell the blue scent of burnt flesh

the subtle perfume of the lost innocence

the roar of the livid ocean, saturated with blood of countrymen

 

Laughing one, there is no cure for this one,

we will never regain our lost virginities,

our girls will not be picked from their princely beds,

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