Terrorist Defined

Terror as medicine

To cure terror as disease

Crime against crime

Tooth by tooth

Eye by eye

Break a leg, rip the skin

Drill holes in the heads

Easy! Shoot all dead!

Delighted by pain -

But not yours, only others;

Because

YOU'RE a terrorist

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Mother has a fever

~ Mother has a fever ~

Mother has a fever

Her temperature's rising

Radiant warmth spreads across her body

Glaciers keep on melting;

Big Bear flees his home

Rivers evaporate

The sky keeps on crying

Floods of emotions, unexplained, silent

But, oh so clear!

Signs from heaven,

Storm after storm

To human; a tropical pleasure

Tanned bodies, eternal summer

So ignorant, yes, so ignorant

Is the child who plays loudly

Yet knowing that

Mother has a fever

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With Love

Dear readers, I'd like to dedicate this poem to all of you.
Happy reading :)

~ With Love ~

Love's not a rose or a diamond dear
Love's not a necklace or a teddy bear
Love's not an item to purchase and sell
Love's not a word you could simply yell
Love's not the landscape of romantic red
Love's not the tears you fakely shed
Love's not the arrow across the heart
Love's not some numbers on a fortune chart
Love's not a princess and her missing shoe
Love's not a letter with 'I love you'
Love is a treasure, a way of life
Love's all the years you shared with your wife
Love is a river, emotions that flow
Love's all the moments in life as we go
Love is a song, shared only between two
Love's all the memories, old and new
Love is the hug, the kiss on the cheek
Love's what relaxes, what makes you go weak
Love's a condition to treasure and hold
Love's all the things that I have just told

With love,

Reema

Photos: My Mum's Garden

So I finally got to take a shortwalk round my mum's garden, took the camera with me and captured these pictures. I really liked the first one, the close-up of the flower. So summer time!

Above Photo: OK. I've no idea what this is, it really looked like a flower, with no petals. Anybody knows what plant this is?

Above Photo: Early grapes, or baby grapes as I call them. Just had to capture a grape moment here ;)

Above Photo: And of course, followed with a grape-leaf moment too.

It's okay

I used to be so sugar sweet
For such a long, long time indeed
Always smiling, always happy
Kindness flourished, nothing crappy
And suddenly I don't know how
A voice inside that told me - Now,
Look around and do you see
How dark all things have come to be?
No, please listen, I'm not bad,
I'm not mental, I'm not mad!
Please look at me, beyond my eyes
A shattered soul never lies
Beyond my smile, beyond it all
Pain, sadness, anger have their call
The bloody battle deep within
Makes living life a crucial sin
Bullet words escape my lips
A word that hurts, a word that slips
I hate the way how badness bends
I hate the way I hurt my friends
But the troubled pain that hides inside
Has carried me and the world apart
Silver sun is faded, gone
No love, no goodness, nothing, none!
I'm quiet, yes, but look I scream!
My eyes are wide; this dreadful dream -
A happy face can also cry
Though smiles are flashing, eyes are dry
The secret pain that's born and bred
Has torn my soul, I'm almost dead
I want to tell, just spit it out,
Just tell the world, just scream, just shout!
But no matter how hard I think,
No words would tell, and so I sink
Deeper, deeper down this well
So lost and helpless; living hell
And so I know the only cure,
The remedy that'd work for sure
A smile, a moment, a tiny shrug
Two people closer, and a hug
The timeless whisper in my ear
The simple words I've longed to hear
Life is hard, yet you would say:
The soothing words of "it's okay"

It's okay.

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Past Art Work

These are some of my experimental, pastel art work produced few years ago. Thought I'd share it with all of you guys. Please do remember, all COMMENTS and FEEDBACKS are appreciated! So have a look, enjoy and tell me what YOU think :)



Peace!



Mermaid



Silenced Mask



Autumn: A Portrait



Purple Sunset



Butterfly



It's Called Love



Weeping Willow



Light of Hope



Green Apple


Want to comment? I'd love to hear from you :)



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Freelance Trip: Iraq

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The Road to Iraq. Southern Turkey.

The Road to Iraq. Southern Turkey.

Sign of hope? Last winter orange on the tree.

Climb, climb.. and you may reach your liberty.. at its end.





An Iraqi home.. So perfectly peaceful.
Now who would know about the bloody war that's going on behind these walls?





A bottle of gas. People offer their lifetime for this,
queueing from sunrise to sunset (literally).
So, this "liberation" included the Iraqi oil resources too, huh?





The other side of the walls.
A destroyed, trashed, and most importantly, "liberated" country!


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Blackpool Beach

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My neighbour's naughty cat

I found my neighbour's cat in the garden today, and so I decided to capture few photos of Fred. Only Fred decided to be a little bit naughty, a little bit cheeky, and totally not sit still (well, she is a cat after all) :) Anyhow, I did capture few photos of her (yes it IS a her), enjoy ;)