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Farida Haque
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Jan 10

Raise Up Your Angels, Lord

Raise Up Your Angels, Lord ~ and us mortals too ~ Wounded air blood of my heart wept for a kiss and I fell at your feet. I fell at your feet, Lord. Quintessentially heartless, you the promised lover of Rumi and Hafez, know nothing of love even less of desire. Lord, see us. Fallen…

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Raise Up Your Angels, Lord
Raise Up Your Angels, Lord
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Jan 9

A Love Poem

A Love Poem ~ and it is yours ~ I, stretched and drowned in the sun, born of this my world waited. Then a dazzled sky opened itself to me with a promise of love’s redemption, — more for its own sake than mine — with faith lost, what’s left? Wild is my…

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A Love Poem
A Love Poem
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Jan 8

The Last Queen

~ where has it all gone, she said ~ The bulldozers, They departed. She who thought Palaces and sovereignty Were eternal Wept. Dust swirled; No magnolia breezes, Only breaths of recollections. And the Queen wept. For her orange trees Blighted rose bushes Verdant grasses, Stolen peacocks Dislocated honeycombs Stunned rabbits …

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The Last Queen
The Last Queen
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Dec 24, 2022

The Promise of Liminal Respites

~ a meditation on liminal moments ~ Vantablack is a revolutionary paint. It’s made of billions of nanotubes which absorb nearly 100% light. In other words, it’s as close to a black hole as we can get. Anish Kapoor, a British artist holds the copyright to it. It’s for his…

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The Promise of Liminal Respites
The Promise of Liminal Respites
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Dec 23, 2022

Diagrams of my Heart

~ what it is ~ My heart is a net which catches this and that… It gathers unanswered prayers which shroud the sun. And makes the sun’s face molten gold again… daggers of love thrust deep in my heart begin and end in it I shake them off, those daggers …

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Diagrams of my Heart
Diagrams of my Heart
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Dec 21, 2022

Oh For a Limerick!

~ to bring a smile ~

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Oh For a Limerick!
Oh For a Limerick!
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Dec 17, 2022

Take Flight in Dazzled Air!

~ my evensong ~ Guilty! I admit I have been a coward; I surrendered When was it that I allowed Wonder to hibernate? Dance to flee? Embarrassed arabesques tiptoed away… Perched on a pink cloud amorous once, Song eyes me still, reproachfully Coward! Agree or not Healing is a pretty…

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Take Flight in Dazzled Air!
Take Flight in Dazzled Air!
Poetry

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Dec 13, 2022

How Can I Unsee Rage And Fear

~ refuge in rare moments ~ There are nights, I swear, when I can feel dew falling on the world. Blinded night skies shimmer with clarity then, starlight rains down like limpid rainbows on purple shadows, and lost fireflies weave a phosphorescent net of blue-green lights around slumbering forms, while…

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How Can I Unsee Rage And Fear
How Can I Unsee Rage And Fear
Poetry

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Dec 6, 2022

Fire-Eaters Fire-Breathers

Fire-Eaters Fire-Breathers ~ meek is not weak~ Drench each day in passion, I say meet each day arms aflame. Burn! burn beyond burn blaze and blister – what have we to lose? Borrowed skins, all. Ashes to ashes… Choose. Choose never to surrender Be a blue flame perhaps a red flame today…

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Fire-Eaters Fire-Breathers
Fire-Eaters Fire-Breathers
Poetry

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Oct 11, 2022

The Effrontery of Being Alive

~ that which was mine, my daughters shall not inherit ~ Listen: Only a coward chooses ignorance over self-knowledge. Fleeting courage brought me; I am greedy for love. Is that why an eternal hunger stalks me? I, a woman made a mistake — I fought to live, not merely exist. …

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The Effrontery of Being Alive
The Effrontery of Being Alive
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Farida Haque

Farida Haque

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Multimedia artist, writer, poet. ‘Celebrating other lives, I am a sparrow in the shadow of a rosebush...’ faridahaque@gmail.com

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