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Never send a boy to do a woman’s job, Irma.” - Payton Kendall
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Julie James (Practice Makes Perfect)
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There are many different ways to revise a cookbook. Faced with the task of updating Joy in the mid-1990s, my father, Ethan,
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Irma S. Rombauer (Joy of Cooking)
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Always pat fish dry before cooking.
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Irma S. Rombauer (Joy of Cooking)
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Certain vegetables and fruits should not be stored together. Apples give off ethylene gas, which can overripen vegetables, and onions cause potatoes to spoil quickly.
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Irma S. Rombauer (Joy of Cooking)
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If there is one suject that has sparked disagreement among food writers and home cooks more than any other, it is the best way to boil an egg...you never want to actually boil eggs, but rather, gently simmer them
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Irma S. Rombauer (Joy of Cooking)
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To determine the age of eggs, place them in a bowl of water...eggs that float are too old and should be thrown away.
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Irma S. Rombauer (Joy of Cooking)
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Cream cheese is the perfect blank slate from which to make a flavorless sandwich spread that can serve as an alternative to mayonnaise or butter. Or use it as God intended: on a fresh, toasted bagel.
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Irma S. Rombauer (Joy of Cooking)
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or 3 sprigs fresh thyme or ½ teaspoon dried thyme 1 bay leaf Reduce the heat to low, cover, and cook for 5 minutes. Add the eggplant and zucchini and cook until everything is tender, about 20 minutes more. Taste and adjust the seasonings. Stir in: ¼ cup chopped basil (Chopped pitted Niçoise or Kalamata olives to taste)
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Irma S. Rombauer (Joy of Cooking)
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Sprouts have come under intense scrutiny since they are grown in an environment that invites unwanted bacteria and are often consumed raw. In fact, many large grocery store chains do not carry sprouts of any kind to avoid liability concerns. If you are cooking for anyone with a compromised immune system, we recommend avoiding sprouts or cooking them before serving.
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Irma S. Rombauer (Joy of Cooking)
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life is like a silver coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you can spend it once.
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Irma Joubert (The Girl from the Train)
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RATATOUILLE PROVENÇALE 8 servings Served on a platter that shows off its contrasting colors, this dish looks like a colorful Cubist still life. Heat in a large skillet or Dutch oven over medium heat: ¼ cup olive oil Add and cook, stirring, until golden and just tender, 10 to 12 minutes: 1 medium eggplant (about 1 pound), peeled and cut into 1-inch chunks 2 large zucchini (about 1 pound), cut into 1-inch chunks
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Irma S. Rombauer (Joy of Cooking)
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Perubahan hidup kita diikat dengan doa. Ia adalah ikhtiar kepada keinginan yang mahu dicapai..Kekayaan orang Muslim adalah doa.
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Irma Hasmie (SMILE: Skill, Motivasi, Inspirasi, Luar Biasa, Elegan)
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Even as a little girl, Irma Leopold had wanted above all things to see everyone happy with the cake of their choice. Sometimes it became an almost unbearable longing, as when she had looked down at Mademoiselle asleep on the grass this afternoon.
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Joan Lindsay (Picnic at Hanging Rock)
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Everything if only you could see it clearly enough, is beautiful and complete – the ragged nest, Marion’s torn muslin skirts fluted like a nautilus shell, Irma’s ringlets framing her face in exquisite wiry spirals – even Edith, flushed and childishly vulnerable in sleep.
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Joan Lindsay (Picnic at Hanging Rock)
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Birds sold as free-range or free-roaming must be given access to the outside, however that is the ony requirement; the area to which they have access may be small, and consist of gravel and no forage of any kind. The term pastured or pasture-raised tends to be more meaningful, as this practice can affect the flavor and size of the birds...The term "natural" is unregulated and essentially meaningless. According to the current USDA standards, no poultry may be given hormones; thus, poultry labeled as "hormone-free" is akin to labeling bottled water "no carbs" or "fat free.
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Irma S. Rombauer (Joy of Cooking)
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Mencipta perubahan bermula daripada kata-kata. Sama ada kata-kata yang menyentak ataupun menusuk kalbu.
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Irma Hasmie (SMILE: Skill, Motivasi, Inspirasi, Luar Biasa, Elegan)
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In order to be labeled organic, a crop must be grown without the use of certain synthetic pesticides and fertilizers, as specified by the USDA. Though produced with fewer synthetic compounds, organic vegetables are not necessarily tastier or more nutritious than their conventional counterparts. Also keep in mind that the certification process is often too expensive for small farms even though their practices may meet or exceed those set by the USDA. The smallest farms-those selling less than $5,000 worth of crops annually-may by law label their produce organic without being inspected or certified. Rather than rely on labeling, we prefer, when possible, to buy locally grown vegetables in their season.
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Irma S. Rombauer (Joy of Cooking)
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Like every other Christmas Eve, she went to Grandpa John's room, because they were the only ones who knew how long the yearning for another person could last, long after everyone else had forgotten.
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Irma Joubert (The Girl from the Train)
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Do you feel that we can rebel against our oppressors without losing our love, our tolerance, and our ability to forgive?
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Miriam Toews (Irma Voth)
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That to truly know happiness is to know the fleeting nature of everything, joy, pain, safety and happiness itself.
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Miriam Toews (Irma Voth: A Novel)
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And then the French paddled over from Canada, and you know how rambunctious those Canadians are—always in a snit about something,” Irma prattled on.
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Duffy Brown (Geared for the Grave (A Cycle Path Mystery Book 1))
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Irma, my dear sister,' said Prunesquallor, 'I have two things to say. Firstly, why in the name of discomfort are we hanging around in the hall and probably dying of a draught that as far as I'm concerned runs up my right trouser leg and sets my gluteous maximus twtiching; and secondly, what is wrong, when you boil the matter down - with feet? I have always found mine singularly useful, especially for walking with. In fact, ha, ha, ha, one might almost imagine that they have been designed for that very purpose.
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Mervyn Peake (Titus Groan (Gormenghast, #1))
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Eternity is a ham and two people” (also given as “Eternity is two people and a ham") is an old quip from the days when a ham was huge—far more than two people could finish. Irma Rombauer mentions this line in her famous cookbook, The Joy of Cooking.
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Dorothy Parker
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Don’t you think so? Don’t you think so?’ ‘I am far beyond thinking, bone of my bone. Far, far beyond thinking, I hand over the reins to you, Irma. Mount and be gone. The world awaits you.
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Mervyn Peake (Titus Groan (Gormenghast, #1))
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Irma looked around her bedroom desperately. Her eyes fell on the stack of schoolbooks lying on top of her vanity table. Homework! Homework trumped everything! Irma dived toward the desk and scooped up a couple of textbooks.
"I want to do my homework!" she wailed. "I have to study. Send Leafy instead of me!" Irma pointed to her pet turtle.
"Your turtle is not going on a date with Martin Tubbs!
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Elizabeth Lenhard (The Last Tear (W.I.T.C.H. Chapter Books, #5))
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No honking the horn or flashing the lights because you get bored,” she warned Irma. “Dweezil’s threatened to blow up the car if you throw a tantrum out here. He said you freak out the customers when you do that.”
“The man who looks like an olive claims I freak people out?” She gestured to a troll that exited the office. “Oh yes, I’m the odd one here.”
Jazz swallowed her laughter. The last thing she needed to do was encourage the irascible ghost.
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Linda Wisdom (50 Ways to Hex Your Lover (Hex, #1))
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Exactly.” Irma nodded, thoughtful. “I always figured that was because our greatest temptation wouldn’t be the big guns on the sin list — murder and theft and the rest. But something so simple we might overlook it. The temptation to hold a grudge.” “The call to forgive.
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Karen Kingsbury (The Bailey Flanigan Collection: Leaving / Learning / Longing / Loving (Bailey Flanigan, #1-4))
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A ottantadue anni, Irma ha raggiunto una visione della vita molto chiara: per le cose belle, si ride; per quelle brutte, si piange, se non fosse che piangere non serve a un accidente, quindi tendenzialmente non si piange nemmeno per quelle ma le si incassa con classe e una tazza di tè.
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Alice Basso
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Apabila perubahan membawa kepada kebaikan, ketenangan menjadi teman. Dia penghapus resah dan pengukuh keyakinan.
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Irma Hasmie (SMILE: Skill, Motivasi, Inspirasi, Luar Biasa, Elegan)
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Why is it so painful to write about people who aren't assholes? I asked Wilson.
Because I would start to love them, he said.
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Miriam Toews (Irma Voth)
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My words aren't only words. They're pictures and tears and imperfect offerings of love and self-inflicted shots to my brain.
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Miriam Toews
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Men, she decided, were a strange, thick-skulled, ball-kicking species no one on earth could have a sensible conversation with.
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Irma Joubert (The Girl from the Train)
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Sy praat stadig, asof sy die woorde in haar mond oopbreek.
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Irma Venter (Skoenlapper (S-boek reeks, #1))
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Sy het net kwaad geword, en kwaad is nie 'n emosie nie. Ek sal weet. Dis soos grond; jy gebruik dit om ander, egter goed te begrawe. Haat. Jaloesie. Liefde.
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Irma Venter (Skrapnel)
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He was a man who knew he'd come in after a long day and had found his shade (Irma)
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Denise Chávez (Loving Pedro Infante)
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Accordingly, identification, or the formation of composite figures, serves different purposes: first, to represent a feature both persons have in common; secondly, to represent a displaced common feature; but thirdly, to find expression for a common feature that is merely wished for. Since wishing it to be the case that two people have something in common is often the same as exchanging them, this relation too is expressed in the dream by identification. In the dream of Irma's injection, I wish to exchange this patient for another, that is, I wish that the other were my patient, as Irma is; the dream takes account of the wish in showing me a figure who is called Irma, but who is examined in a posture in which I have only had occasion to see the other.
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Sigmund Freud (The Interpretation of Dreams)
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Just remember, when you suffer and feel the heat of the flames, that’s when God is there. He watches carefully, until He can see His own image in you. He’ll never leave you in the flames too long.
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Irma Joubert (The Girl From the Train)
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I got Mrs. Underwood's green attendance book and opened it up. "Period two, right?"
"Yeah," Corky said.
"Okay. Here we go. Irma Bates?"
"I want to go home! " Irma screamed defiantly.
"She's here," I said.
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Stephen King (The Bachman Books)
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It seems reasonable to assume that the minute Irma walks into Venera and Goderdzi's home she will take off her while wedding dress, take up the yoke of domestic duties and work like a mule until her dying breath.
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Nana Ekvtimishvili (The Pear Field)
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It was the early 1960s, and the best-known names in home cooking—Fannie Farmer, Betty Crocker, Irma Rombauer, Dione Lucas—projected a warm and cozy domestic image that was the opposite of what she and David were after.
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Laura Shapiro (What She Ate: Six Remarkable Women and the Food That Tells Their Stories)
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To say that the frozen silence contracted itself into a yet higher globe of ice were to under-rate the exquisite tension and to shroud it in words. The atmosphere had become a physical sensation. As when, before a masterpiece, the acid throat contracts, and words are millstones, so when the supernaturally outlandish happens and a masterpiece is launched through the medium of human gesture, then all human volition is withered at the source and the heart of action stops beating.
Such a moment was this. Irma, a stalagmite of crimson stone, knew, for all the riot of her veins that a page had turned over. At chapter forty? O no! At chapter one, for she had never lived before save in a pulseless preface.
How long did they remain thus? How many times had the earth moved round the sun? How many times had the great blue whales of the northern waters risen to spurt their fountains at the sky? How many reed-bucks had fallen to the claws of how many leopards, while that sublime unit of two-figure statuary remained motionless? It is fruitless to ask. The clocks of the world stood still or should have done.
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Mervyn Peake (Gormenghast (Gormenghast, #2))
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He was astonishingly ugly, so much so that the prettiest boot-embroiderer of the day, Irma Boissy, was so revolted by his looks as to declare him to be impossible. But this in no way discouraged Grantaire, who gazed tenderly and fixedly at all women with an air of saying "If I chose", and strove to persuade his comrades that he was universally sought after.
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Victor Hugo (Les Misérables)
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The director said he's got a haunted soul and a natural sweetness.
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Miriam Toews (Irma Voth)
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One team on the same train, moving in the same direction, is a powerful force.
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Irma Parone
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To suffer personally and directly due to the collective is not necessary, and is also a subtle form of masochism disguised as virtue.
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Irma Kaye Sawyer (The Aquarian Empath, Part II)
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life is like a silver coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you can only spend it once.
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Irma Joubert (The Girl From the Train)
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But the truth doesn’t always need a voice. Sometimes it waits where you left it, without anyone having to acknowledge it. Quietly and indisputably. And, above all, patiently.
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Irma Venter (Hard Rain (Rogue, #1))
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For a few seconds I thought about my little brothers who loved connecting things with rope. I wondered if I'd ever see them again and a torpedo of sadness struck me and moved straight trough my body.
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Miriam Toews
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We drank our coffee and talked a little bit more about practical things. Natalie came over and asked me if I knew what the trees were called. I said no. She told me they were jacarandas. She said one March two years ago she was feeling suicidal. She had planned to step in front of a bus. Then she looked at the jacaranda tree and changed her mind.
You decided to hang yourself from it instead? I said.
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Miriam Toews (Irma Voth)
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You are also here to serve as guides and examples for others through the years of the “Shift” on Earth. This does not entail being bogged down by the karma, issues, and psychic garbage of the collective.
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Irma Kaye Sawyer (The Aquarian Empath, Part II)
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Irma, she said. But I had started to walk away. I heard her say some more things but by then I had yanked my skirt up and was running down the road away from her and begging the wind to obliterate her voice. She wanted to live with me. She missed me. She wanted me to come back home. She wanted to run away. She was yelling all this stuff and I wanted so badly for her to shut up. She was quiet for a second and I stopped running and turned around once to look at her. She was a thimble-sized girl on the road, a speck of a living thing. Her white-blond hair flew around her head like a small fire and it was all I could see because everything else about her blended in with the countryside.
He offered you a what? she yelled.
An espresso! I yelled back. It was like yelling at a shorting wire or a burning bush.
What is it? she said.
Coffee! I yelled.
Irma, can I come and live--
I turned around again and began to run.
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Miriam Toews (Irma Voth)
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I was beginning to understand something I couldn't articulate. It was a jazzy feeling in my chest, a fluttering, a kind of buzzing in my brain. Warmth. Life. The circulation of blood. Sanguinity. I don't know. I understood the enormous risk of telling the truth, how the telling could result in every level of hell reigning down on you, your skin scorched to the bone and then bone to ash and then nothing but a lingering odour of shame and decomposition, but now I was also beginning to understand the new and alien feeling of taking the risk and having the person on the other end of the telling, the listener, say:
Bad shit at home? You guys are running away?
Yeah, I said.
I understand, said, Noehmi.
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Miriam Toews (Irma Voth)
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Where are they going to get a camera? I asked. I don't know, said Noehmi. They'll probably get sidetracked along the way. Or they'll come back with paint instead, or beer, or some new idea for a circus or something. They're social anarchists.
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Miriam Toews
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I stood there, like always, like forever it seemed, in the middle of the road waiting for something or someone to retrieve me, God or a parent or my husband or any of those things or people or ideas or words that by their definition promised love.
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Miriam Toews (Irma Voth)
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Chaos can become boring. What recurs often eventually loses its impact, diminishes in perceived size and importance, even if it continues unabated. Shock, like love, can ebb away. What once moved the earth can become normal. Routine and predictable. Boring.
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Irma Venter (Hard Rain (Rogue, #1))
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Irma Nail, who lived next door to Gordon, was setting off as usual for her morning paper. She was not easily distracted from her routine, even by the apocalypse. She stepped out of her house in her purple rain boots, muttering about the freakish weather, and glanced up at the sky just as a wolf fell out of it.
'Outrageous!' She snorted as it lay stunned at her feet. 'I've heard of it raining cats and dogs, but this is ridiculous!' and she stepped over the stricken beast, putting her umbrella up in case more wolves should tumble, uninvited, from the sky.
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Livi Michael
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Mennonites formed themselves in Holland five hundred years ago after a man named Menno Simons became so moved by hearing Anabaptist prisoners singing hymns before being executed by the Spanish Inquisition that he joined their cause and became their leader. Then they started to move all around the world in colonies looking for freedom and isolation and peace and opportunities to sell cheese. Different countries give us shelter if we agree to stay out of trouble and help with the economy by farming in obscurity. We live like ghosts. Then, sometimes, those countries decide they want us to be real citizens after all and start to force us to do things like join the army or pay taxes or respect laws and then we pack our stuff up in the middle of the night and move to another country where we can live purely but somewhat out of context.
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Miriam Toews (Irma Voth)
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..I followed her out the door and watched her walk down the road towards home, hers, and the bright yard light, and her own bed, and our parents, and I stood there for a long time because I didn't know where else to go.
I stood there long enough to feel the chill of the night. The sky was a blanket of stars.Indifferent.
I repeated the ancient song of Nezahualcoytl. I stood there long enough to hear my family singing. Why were they singing at two in the morning? I heard the hight, creaky voice of my mother and the off-key but persistent voices of my little brothers.
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Miriam Toews
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Be'…” ha cominciato Tanis, ma si è interrotta subito e ha scosso la testa. “Torna qui e mettiti a sedere.” Pat Fitzgerald ha sghignazzato. “Cos'è, ci si scambiano i segreti adesso?” “Proprio così.” “Sai che affare,” ha osservato Corky Herald. Con questo ha suscitato le risa della classe. Irma Bates se n'è tornata mogia mogia in fondo all'aula, dove si è immersa in non so quale confabulazione con Tanis, Anne Lasky e Susan Brooks. Sylvia conversava sottovoce con Grace, sotto lo sguardo avido di Porcile. Ted Jones corrugava la fronte. George Yannick stava incidendo qualcosa sul suo banco mentre fumava una sigaretta e sembrava proprio un falegname assorto. Gli altri erano quasi tutti occupati a guardar fuori della finestra gli sbirri che dirottavano il traffico e quelli che tramavano in piccoli capannelli dall'aria sconfitta. In quel momento è echeggiato all'improvviso un campanello con un gran baccano che ha fatto saltare in aria tutti quanti. "È la campana del cambio dell'ora," ha spiegato Harmon. Io ho guardato l'orologio a muro. Erano le 9.50. Alle 9.05 ero seduto al mio posto vicino alla finestra a osservare lo scoiattolo. Adesso lo scoiattolo non c'era più, il buon vecchio Tom Denver se n'era andato e Mrs. Underwood se n'era andata ancora di più. Ci ho riflettuto e ho concluso che me n'ero andato anch'io.
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Stephen King (Rage)
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Universe of My Love
I have loved you; why, when, how. I do not know,
I have loved you for your beautiful smile and for your mysterious glow,
With which you fill my life offering me a sense of completeness,
That invades me with your love’s stillness,
Your love, my emotions, my sentiments and my entire existence,
It feels like the most beautiful moment of reality with no hint of pretence,
Inside me I feel you flowing in my senses,
And there hidden from the world, just you and I and our romances,
Kisses of love, thoughts of togetherness and basking in your beauty,
Everything within me and outside me regards you as its patron deity,
In the night’s anonymity your thoughts are my only gladdening acquaintance,
And I willingly accept my, self-decreed sentence,
To become your prisoner, your admirer enslaved forever,
With the hope that someday in my humble submissions you will discover your lover,
Who loves you, only you. Why? I do not wish to know,
As long as in your eyes I see a reflection of my own life's flow,
So sleep my love Irma, but please never close your eyes,
For whenever you do so something within me dies,
You are my end and you are my beginning too,
I am the river and you are the always waiting sea that I restlessly flow to,
In you I have seen my heaven and daylight,
In this universe of mine you are my only starlight,
You are my visions and my always longed for that beauty's ultimate sight,
Let me hold your hair Irma, let me look into your eyes and be together every day and night,
Fill the emptiness of my life with your sparkling eyes,
Le me place my tired head under your hair and drift far and wide into these dark skies,
Of this familiar universe that your presence creates for me,
Let us be in this state forever my love; the ever expanding universe, and you with me!
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Javid Ahmad Tak (They Loved in 2075!)
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Our dreams are little stories or puzzles that we must solve to be free, Sebastian said. He was reading out loud from Wilson's notebook. My dream is me offering me a solution to the conundrum of my life. My dream is me offering me something that I need and my responsibility to myself is to try to understand what it means. Our dreams are a thin curtain between survival and extinction.
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Miriam Toews (Irma Voth)
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War is a dumb game thought out by men when they become too old to play cowboys and crooks.
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Irma Joubert (Persomi)
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Irma made landfall soon after, creating a path of chaos and destruction that was all too real.
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Anna Merlan (Republic of Lies: American Conspiracy Theorists and Their Surprising Rise to Power)
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I've learned to appreciate what my grandmother told me when I was younger, which was simple. When you were born, your life is like an empty vase. All your life people put flowers in your vase. You should give the flowers back because you don't want to leave this earth with your vase full.
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Irma P. Hall
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SS auxiliary Irma Grese
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Lucy Adlington (The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive)
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what to do, so she knelt behind
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Irma Joubert (The Girl From the Train)
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His voice, like the pluck of a bass guitar, reverberated through her, sending a shiver up the back of her neck. Irma quickly revised her assessment of Ezra from confident to dangerous.
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Tricia O'Malley (A Good Soul (Siren Island, #6))
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Memories of love
She is the flower that blooms in every season,
For me she is the logic and my life’s every reason,
To serenade her for her beautiful ways,
During the cold Winter nights and during the warm Summer days,
When I lie vacant in my mind,
There is nothing to ponder on and nothing new to find,
And no thoughts pass by and everything seems unopposable,
I think of you, your beautiful face and your ways loveable,
Then something within me dies, something deep inside,
Maybe it is the sense of time, sense of existence that no more is willing to reside,
In this trepidation which brings grief,
To be a languid moment on the fringes of life with no relief,
And as this dead part of me buries itself within me,
Under the aegis of your sweet memories I now live and see,
Whatever life has to offer in its cyclic inventions of fate,
While I live, moving like the needles of the clock, and ah the endless wait,
So I reside in the hegemony of chance,
And in my memories we forever romance,
Which rise from the my half that is still alive,
Still hopeful, still in love, still romantic, and that is where you and your memories thrive,
They are the reason and that subtle force that makes my heart beat,
That alive part of my heart where every heart throb only your name does repeat,
And as I slide into the corner of my room,
I let your memories and smiles on the walls, on the floor, over the windows to bloom,
And I stare at this permanent Summer bliss,
And these beautiful sights grow over me like a permanent kiss,
Where I breathe you and you breathe me,
And in the flowers hanging on the walls, sprouting from the floor, growing on the windows, your wonder I see,
Then I spread the blanket of your memories,
And I sleep with your smiles, with your kisses, and my silent mind unto the land of love ferries,
Time may have neutralised my mind,
But it has failed to prevent me from my heart’s desire to find,
You in everything, in the skies, in the stars in the light and in the dark,
And ah its pain, for from memories it has failed to remove any mark,
For time that is the unruly mercenary of fate,
Killed a part of me and thought now it is my final and insensate state,
And as it galloped to erase my memories too,
My dying heart beat said, “Irma I love you!”
And the horse of time stumbled and fell,
How, why maybe nobody can tell,
And thus I ceased my moment and ran away with your memories,
And now the chariot of time me and you together carries,
Ahead of the time that chases me still and maybe forever,
But it's fall granted me a lead of few moments newer,
And when I tread on the highway of time,
You and I my love, are always ahead of the weary horse of Worldly time,
So let me spread the blanket of memories and let me sleep now,
For I have to be with you, in the land where it is always now,
And for the weary moments of worldly time let the circle around the walls of my room,
Never to know that lovers live in a zone where it is a permanent summer, in its everlasting beauty’s bloom!
The horse of time is worn out but my memories are as fresh as today,
And my love Irma, it shall be so everyday!
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Javid Ahmad Tak
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Memories of love
She is the flower that blooms in every season,
For me she is the logic and my life’s every reason,
To serenade her for her beautiful ways,
During the cold Winter nights and during the warm Summer days,
When I lie vacant in my mind,
There is nothing to ponder on and nothing new to find,
And no thoughts pass by and everything seems unopposable,
I think of you, your beautiful face and your ways loveable,
Then something within me dies, something deep inside,
Maybe it is the sense of time, sense of existence that no more is willing to reside,
In this trepidation which brings grief,
To be a languid moment cast on the fringes of life with no relief,
And as this dead part of me buries itself within me,
Under the aegis of your sweet memories I now live and see,
Whatever life has to offer in its cyclic inventions of fate,
While I live, moving like the needles of the clock, and ah the endless wait,
So I reside in the hegemony of chance,
Yet in my memories we forever romance,
Which arise from my half that is still alive,
Still hopeful, still in love, still romantic, and that is where you and your memories thrive,
They are the reason and that subtle force that makes my heart beat,
That alive part of my heart where every heart throb only your name does repeat,
And as I slide into the corner of my room,
I let your memories and smiles on the walls, on the floor, over the windows to bloom,
And I stare at this permanent Summer bliss,
And these beautiful sights grow over me like a permanent kiss,
Where I breathe you and you breathe me,
And in the flowers hanging on the walls, sprouting from the floor, growing on the windows, your true wonder I see,
Then I spread the blanket of your memories,
And I sleep with your smiles, your kisses, and my silent mind unto the land of love ferries,
Time may have neutralised my mind,
But it has failed to prevent me from my heart’s desire to find,
You in everything, in the skies, in the stars in the light and in the dark,
And ah its pain, for from memories it has failed to remove any mark,
For time that is the unruly mercenary of fate,
Killed a part of me and thought now it is my final and insensate state,
And as it galloped to erase my memories too,
My dying heart beat said, “Irma I love you!”
And the horse of time stumbled and fell,
How, why, maybe nobody can tell,
But I ceased my moment and ran away with your memories,
And now the chariot of time both of us carries,
Ahead of the time that chases me still and maybe forever,
But it's fall granted me a lead of few moments newer,
And when I tread on the highway of time,
You and I my love, are always ahead of the weary horse of Worldly time,
So let me spread the blanket of memories and let me sleep now,
For I have to be with you, in the land where it is always now,
And for the weary moments of worldly time let them circle around the walls of my room,
Never to know that lovers live in a zone where it is a permanent summer, in its everlasting beauty’s bloom!
The horse of time is worn out but my memories are as fresh as today,
And my love Irma, it shall be so everyday!
”
”
Javid Ahmad Tak
“
In the naked reality!
In the nakedness of the reality,
She reflects in my mind’s imagination,
Sometimes she becomes a dream of endless beauty,
Where she is everything, even reality’s beautiful personification,
In the smile that slowly grows over my face,
She neutralizes every feeling of anxiety,
And how happily my heart beats pace,
In a feeling of love’s sobriety,
Then as I hold her hand,
In the midst of Summer flowers,
She assumes the form of beauty that grows in my land,
Land of reality, land of Irma’s dreams, Irma’s kisses, Irma’s beauty, the land of lovers,
We tread and walk for sometime,
In this naked moment of the reality,
Invaded by a feeling of joy sublime,
Because I walk with the most authentic form of beauty,
At night when the sky is shimmering with distant glowing dots,
We sit under a chestnut tree,
To experience our love and a feeling that never departs,
Wherever we might be,
Finally in this naked moment of reality,
I grow over her skin like a shadow that grows over something,
I kiss her and then her beauty,
Until we both become part of everything,
The thing itself and the shadow that covers the thing,
The feeling of love that covers us inside out,
Then when our hearts no longer beat, but they only sing,
I hold her hand and experience love with nothing to fear and with no doubt,
And this romance continues to grow,
Like two shadows fused into one,
And as my endless feelings of love over her skin flow,
We lie in this state of naked reality without letting anyone know!
”
”
Javid Ahmad Tak (They Loved in 2075!)
“
Your and my corner!
Not in any corner,
And at all not there,
But in our own corner,
Where light bends and shadows play, just there,
Let us romance,
Feel the feelings of love,
Just in that corner known as the corner of romance,
Let us take our chances and kiss and love,
Our corner, just your and my corner,
Where time knowingly does not venture,
Let me embrace you behind the shadows of light in that corner,
Where you with me and I with you always venture,
Where time is your kiss of eternity,
And the space is the feeling of your beauty,
Let me dive into this eternity,
And float along with your waves of passions and endless beauty,
There my love Irma, let us create our corner,
Where light bends, shadows play and your smile always greets me,
Let me discover your wonder in that secret corner,
And let your beauty seep into me,
Then whenever we visit this secret corner,
It shall always be you and me,
To create a cascading relay of corners, one corner followed by another corner,
But in all, you and me, forever just you and me!
”
”
Javid Ahmad Tak (They Loved in 2075!)
“
I, inside you! ( Part 2 )
................So time waited at the door and the destiny knocked too,
But the ones they had been sent for had become something else,
So time asked destiny,” if still it could do what it was meant to do?”
And it replied, “Only if they wink I can fulfil your wish. Until then there is nothing else I can do, nothing else!”
But for her kiss, for her embrace, for the rhythm of her heart beats, I never winked my eyes,
Even though many sunshines had passed and the walls had witnessed million moonlights,
The time waits there, the destiny is tired too, to be the joy of the Cupid who lives in the skies,
And had granted us the dreams made of lights,
So, there was no need to wink,
There was no need to wake up,
And time that steals moments whenever lovers blink,
Had become the Destiny’s Atlas, bearing our yoke, because we had poured ourselves into the depths of love cup,
Where time disappeared and never found its end,
There, there in the depths of the love cup, I love my darling Irma forever,
And for her smiles, her kisses, I had compelled the destiny to bend,
Because fate too favours the destiny of the wish, of a true lover,
And in the room of love walls, we lie submersed in the love cup,
She and I caught in the eternal embrace,
Where time waits, destiny waits too, and we neither wink nor look up,
Because I am caught in the moment of her eternal grace,
Her beauty, her heart beat and her face,
And I want to be in this place just with her,
Away from the disturbances of time, worries of destiny, just with her and her beautiful face,
Where she belongs to me and I belong to her,
So, let the time wait till the end of everything,
Then when time does not exist destiny would cease to be,
Then Irma, we shall arise from the state of nothing,
And the universe shall be just you, and me,
With no curtains, no walls, no time, no destiny,
Your heart beats, your beautiful face and our eternal embrace,
Then maybe we shall be the darlings of divinity,
Because in the wide and infinitely empty space, it shall be left with no choice, but to feed your grace,
Then as a lover I shall be truly jovial,
Because now, Irma, everything would lie at your feet,
Destiny, time, eternity, and that instinct original and primeval,
Where only you and I shall be destined to meet!
With the cup of love always full,
Of your beauty, your feelings, your smiles, and you,
Then I shall dive into it and let it cover me full,
And disappear forever somewhere inside you, only you!
”
”
Javid Ahmad Tak (They Loved in 2075!)
“
Love and aspirations!
Let me take you behind the rainbow,
And show you the colours of love,
Let me make you wet with my feelings of love,
As every droplet of my colourful feelings kisses you behind that rainbow.
Let me borrow some colourful mist from the butterfly,
And sprinkle it on your soul,
Let me love you whole including your soul,
As you become the envy of every butterfly.
Let me take you to the garden of roses, lavenders and other beautiful flowers,
And love you like careless lovers,
Let us be those carefree and self indulgent lovers,
As I secretly endow you with the beauty of all these flowers.
Let us stand at the banks of the noisy rivulet,
And flow with its hastiness in one direction,
Let you be the sea and I will be the river flowing in this direction,
As you and I become the part of the happily and always rushing rivulet.
Let me take you to a place where it is always morning,
And let the dew fall on your soul and quench you,
Let you be the pasture of million grass blades as the dew drops kiss you,
As you witness the wave of pleasure engulfing you , then only for you let me be this morning.
Let me take you to the distant valley where the shepherdess sings a beautiful song,
And you try to be her melody,
Let me then be the every note of this melody,
As you get drawn towards the mesmerising song.
Let me make you sit before my mirror long enough,
And fill myself just with your visual imaginations,
Let there be no memory left in me except your imaginations,
As I love you today Irma may it be till eternity, and yet not enough!
Let me feel your bright body and deep eyes, under the sun,
And I shall love you in presence of this universe,
Let me kiss you , to feel you and to remember you just like this universe,
As sometimes under the moonlight I feel you are my warmth and my only sun!
Let me love you forever,
Although loving is brief but forgetting is an infinite loop of time,
So, let me love you Irma till the end of time,
Because we were born for each other and to be together forever.
Let me now take you to the pinnacle of hopes, dreams and beautiful aspirations,
And you decide if you wish to push me into the abyss of nothingness,
Let me tell you though, I shall find you even in that nothingness,
Because as we both stood in front of the mirror, I hope you remember, my reflection was a representation of your beauty and aspirations!
”
”
Javid Ahmad Tak (They Loved in 2075!)
“
You Are My Spring Joy
Where does life seek eternity?
Not in daily struggles or toil, but in that endearing destiny,
Where thoughts, pursuits, likings all merge to create a happy existence,
Where happiness leaps from every act and every substance.
Just like spring flowers that spread joy,
To all alike: a woman, a man, a little girl and a young boy,
They live for moments very brief,
Yet they always manage to delight the heart immersed in grief.
They last for a day or moments few,
With a promise that next year they shall bloom anew,
Leaving behind sweet memories and hopes profound,
And even in a moment of existence they live in eternity that time’s snares can not confound.
Similarly my love Irma, your smiles, your beauty nourish my existence,
You, your love, your endless beauty are what I need for sustenance,
My eternity lies in you, and only you,
Eternity will be virtueless if it is not spent thinking about you and loving you.
I seek thee with all my senses and my mind and heart,
From me the reflections of your beauty never depart,
And I lie wrapped in them day and night,
Without the glimpse of your beautiful smile I cannot establish the brightness in any form of light.
Perhaps someday the sun may not rise,
And the Moon may not shine , to me it shall be no surprise,
But for me living without loving you is not possible,
As for the Moon to shine without the Sun is impossible.
So let us be like the Sun and the moonshine,
Where both exist to create the life giving sunshine and the romantic moonshine,
You be a daffodil, winter jasmine, iris, primrose and be merry and always sing,
And I promise, I will always be the unfailing Spring, just your Spring!
”
”
Javid Ahmad Tak (They Loved in 2075!)
“
You And The Rose of Immortality!
With mortal thoughts one can never seek immortality,
Just like a beautiful rose of Summer cannot create an eternally beautiful garden of memory,
So my darling let us seek eternity, where immortality lies in its absolute piety,
Towards the seekers of the illusive Summer rose that beautifies every memory,
Then you and I shall be beautiful butterflies bearing the wings of immortality,
And fly over the clouds of comely sensations to create our own ocean of limitlessly beautiful memory,
My love Irma just imagine the potentiality of this awaiting reality,
Where every moment spent in time is the recreation of our sweetest memory,
It is here that I wish to offer you the rose of immortality,
That I have stolen from the time's memory!
”
”
Javid Ahmad Tak (They Loved in 2075!)
“
Your special someone!
In the vastness of her inner mind,
In the confines of her selective memories,
In the visions of her eyes refined,
I want to discover our love stories,
In the blinking of her eyelids,
In the movement of her hands,
In the flickering of her lips and their deliberate wet slides,
I wish to create our empire of love lands,
In the mere act of her standing and doing nothing,
Just standing there staring at time,
In her thoughts, in her feelings, and in her everything,
I want to be her companion, or a mere shadow always cast on her moment of time,
In the idleness of her mind and its moments of thinking,
In the days of her life and the nights of her dreams,
In the smile that springs from her face when her beautiful eyes are blinking,
I wish to be her happy dreams and those infinite love beams,
In her playful mood, in her pensive moments,
In her feelings that originate from somewhere within her,
In her heart beats and her life’s pavements,
I want to be her blissful destiny, just like a feeling always living within her,
In the moments of her secret confessions,
When her heart secretly talks to her mind,
In her secret love breeding sessions,
I wish to be her passion, her emotion, her feeling, her everything that she wishes to find,
In her North, her South, her East and in her West,
In her quest to seek her moment of glory,
In the adventures of her heart where she is the best,
I wish to be the beginning and the end of her life’s every story,
In the day when she is awake,
And during the night when she is asleep,
In the silence of her mind, where she, her darling worlds does make,
I wish to be her treasure, her feelings, that always towards me leap,
In the sensitivity of her actions,
In the beauty that glows on her beautiful face,
In her simple, yet charming attractions,
I wish to be that ingredient of eternal grace,
In the silence of her room,
In the tender fluttering of her window curtains,
In the beauty of her Summer bloom,
I wish to be her heart’s only happy bulletins,
In the tip-toeing of her feet,
In the humming of her favorite song,
In the relaxing rhythm of her every heart-beat,
I wish to be her movement, leading her to my heart and memories, where she truly does belong,
In the feelings of her passionate kiss,
In the passions of her midnight dreams,
In the moments of her sensual bliss,
I wish to be her desire, and the loveliest dream, that so real seems,
In the sunshine of the beautiful Summer day,
In the calm of the warm Summer night,
In the sweet corner of her room, where, she her dreams of passion does display,
I wish to be her anxiety, and her love’s delight,
In that every thought where she thinks of someone,
In that step that she takes towards that special someone,
In her need to be with someone,
Irma, I wish to be the only one, that special someone!
”
”
Javid Ahmad Tak (They Loved in 2075!)
“
Your special someone!
In the vastness of her inner mind,
In the confines of her selective memories,
In the visions of her eyes refined,
I want to discover our love stories,
In the blinking of her eyelids,
In the movement of her hands,
In the flickering of her lips and their deliberate wet slides,
I wish to create our empire of love lands,
In the mere act of her standing and doing nothing,
Just standing there staring at time,
In her thoughts, in her feelings, and in her everything,
I want to be her companion, or a mere shadow always cast on her moment of time,
In the idleness of her mind and its moments of thinking,
In the days of her life and the nights of her dreams,
In the smile that springs from her face when her beautiful eyes are blinking,
I wish to be her happy dreams and those infinite love beams,
In her playful mood, in her pensive moments,
In her feelings that originate from somewhere within her,
In her heart beats and her life’s pavements,
I want to be her blissful destiny, just like a feeling always living within her,
In the moments of her secret confessions,
When her heart secretly talks to her mind,
In her secret love breeding sessions,
I wish to be her passion, her emotion, her feeling, her everything that she wishes to find,
In her North, her South, her East and in her West,
In her every quest to seek her moment of glory,
In the adventures of her heart where she is the best,
I wish to be the beginning and the end of her life’s every story,
In the day when she is awake,
And during the night when she is asleep,
In the silence of her mind, where she, her darling worlds does make,
I wish to be her treasure, her feelings, that always towards me leap,
In the sensitivity of her actions,
In the beauty that glows on her beautiful face,
In her simple, yet charming attractions,
I wish to be that ingredient of eternal grace,
In the silence of her room,
In the tender fluttering of her window curtains,
In the beauty of her Summer bloom,
I wish to be her heart’s only happy bulletins,
In the tip-toeing of her feet,
In the humming of her favorite song,
In the relaxing rhythm of her every heart-beat,
I wish to be her movement, leading her to my heart and memories, where she truly does belong,
In the feelings of her passionate kiss,
In the passions of her midnight dreams,
In the moments of her sensual bliss,
I wish to be her desire, and the loveliest dream, that so real seems,
In the sunshine of the beautiful Summer day,
In the calm of the warm Summer night,
In the sweet corner of her room, where, she her dreams of passion does display,
I wish to be her sweet anxiety, and her love’s delight,
In every thought where she thinks of someone,
In every step that she takes towards that special someone,
In her every need to be with someone,
Irma, I wish to be the only one, that special someone!
”
”
Javid Ahmad Tak
“
The only lovers!
When you seek nothing,
When the world seems still and silent,
When the Sun shines bright yet darkness is lurking behind everything,
When there is stillness with no movement,
Then let me confess,
“I love you Irma for all known and unknown reasons”
And as we gradually progress,
Let me admit, “I would love you the same in life’s all seasons!”
In the fears of today, in the uncertainties of tomorrow,
You will be the certain joy of everyday,
In the moments of joy and during the times of sorrow,
To strengthen our faith and feelings of love, I shall always invent a new way,
Then as we flow being a part of river of life,
Everything will be stationary while we shall have attained a happy flow,
And in this paramount moment of my, and your life,
Like the sparkling atoms of joy we shall now over the surface of the river of life glow!
And as we pour ourselves into the sea of naked feelings,
We shall drift as waves always chasing each other,
To end our journeys at the shore of our naked feelings,
And sink deep into the sand as a single feeling of love, where now you are my and I am your only lover!
”
”
Javid Ahmad Tak (They Loved in 2075!)
“
You me and our love!
There she was,
In the calmness of the morning,
Yes there she was,
Spreading her presence in ways mesmerising and charming,
As her beauty hung everywhere now,
Here, there, to be everywhere,
I felt a world of beauty it was now,
Where I belonged only with you somewhere,
Now she was in the daylight as well,
The light, the day and she,
Beauty that was covering everything so well,
That I felt the entire universe was nothing, but her deep eyes and she,
And in this interplay of lights and your beauty, I wondered where I was,
Then I discovered that with you I too was everywhere my love,
For now Irma, everything that there was,
It was you, me and our love!
”
”
Javid Ahmad Tak (They Loved in 2075!)
“
Let Me Irma!
Like the sun beams dancing over summer flowers,
Let me wake up in your mind at all hours,
Like a thought that never subsides,
But as an adorable feeling it within you always resides,
Let me flash as a feeling of joy over your senses,
My darling Irma, I want to take my chances,
For who knows what might happen tomorrow,
So I wish to live every moment of joy before I experience a moment of sorrow,
Let me embrace you like the daylight,
Which is around you always, though you do not feel its grasp tight,
Like this let me hold you forever and everywhere,
To be seemingly nowhere yet always there, forever there,
Like the daylight draping you in its brightness,
And when I see you clad in this dress of daylight, ah my fondness,
For you, your smile, your deep eyes draws me unto you,
Then neither the daylight, nor the day exist, it is just you and only you,
And as I climb the heights of passions and desires,
Let me rest within you like those solemn prayers,
That arise from the heart and dwell forever in the firmament of love,
Then let me believe nothing exists below and nothing exists up above,
It is just the daylight and you,
Where you wear my passions all around you,
And I forever love you,
And I once again believe you were made for me and I was made for you,
Then when the night approaches,
Let me disregard all astral reproaches,
And lie with you Irma under the starry night,
And bask in your love light, that shines brighter than the daylight.
”
”
Javid Ahmad Tak (They Loved in 2075!)
“
You and Me!
In the summer garden,
Where flowers abound,
With joys never felt before or begotten,
There my love I always have found,
You, In the soft fluttering of butterflies’ wings,
In the tender swaying of these beautiful Summer flowers,
In the heart beat of those young lovers whose hearts a melody sweet sings,
While I seek you in these Summer flowers and in the shadows of carefree lovers,
And as the afternoon Sun shines brighter,
And the angle of every shadow changes,
Then how I miss to hold you tighter,
Before like these shadows the feeling escapes into new emotional ranges,
Where you are the peak and summit of everything,
The Summer, The Summer bliss and my love for you,
And then with my feelings I wrap everything,
Now in the moment it is just us: the Summer, me and you,
Then as dusk descends on the scenes of life,
I stack your memories in my heart and in my mind,
To embark on my new ambition, the night and our life,
Where now, your memories and my feelings I unwind,
And cast them over these golden beams,
As they spread everywhere,
My love Irma, my heart with my mind teams,
And then it is you, just you, in everything and everywhere!
”
”
Javid Ahmad Tak (They Loved in 2075!)
“
Everything is only you!
Sometimes my heart wants to escape with my head,
But my heart beats in all directions tend to tread,
And my mind that only thinks of you,
Eventually lets my heart beats become an echo of you,
Where your memories lie everywhere, and stare at me,
From every corner, every side, every direction, it is just you that I see,
And then my love Irma, I love you,
Quietly in my heart beats and my mind creates visual glimpses of you,
Which appear and fade like bubbles in the sea of time,
And whenever a bubble of excitement is about to reach its prime,
It bursts and the bubble sprays infinite droplets of memories bearing an image of you,
And then how I miss you!
Maybe you will never know it,
That shall be the tragedy of time and feelings of love which are forfeit,
Still I shall think of you and love to create this bubble with you,
And feel the droplets of your kisses, which are but distant memories of you,
Time travels at its pace but human memories somehow master the art of lying in a timeless space,
Where the moments from the past through the lanes of mind towards every heartbeat pace,
It is so with me, yet I love to love you,
Whenever I travel in the train of time I wish to journey only unto you,
So let the memories be there Irma and let the feelings stay true,
Let the present know, that it is past that rules and leaves a clue,
For the lovers to pick, just like I in every present seek you,
This clue from the past, makes me find you in the present, that Universe creates only for me and you,
In every bubble of memory that bursts and creates endless droplets of memories,
Which cover my body and soul with these time’s pleasantries,
Where you grow over me like a skin of feelings and I feel you,
Like a touch growing all over me, where everything is now you and only you!
”
”
Javid Ahmad Tak (They Loved in 2075!)
“
Pact of love
Not in the silence but in the stillness of quietude I want to be with you,
Then as our heartbeats break the silence I want to tell you,
Darling I love you,
And see the flash of joy arise from you,
And let the quiet stillness be intruded by you,
By your smiles, by your heart beats, by anything that represents you,
Then as my world of emotions and feelings grows over you,
I shall attempt to steal you from you,
To reside somewhere in the eternal stillness with you,
Where there is the world but it exists only for me and you,
Then as my feelings sink inside you,
I shall tune my heart beats with that of you,
Then even the stillness will not disturb me and you,
Because now it will be hard to tell whether you are inside me or I am inside you,
With feelings merged as one, with heart beats beating as one, I shall now see my world through you,
Then my love Irma, we shall sign our pact of love bearing just one line, “I was born to love you!
”
”
Javid Ahmad Tak (They Loved in 2075!)
“
You are the shore of my life!
I know that you reside in your dreams and in your desires,
You, your beauty and my desires,
I feel still need to find a way to intersect somewhere,
To give birth to the desire allowing us to meet somewhere,
Where your dreams are mine too,
And where my desires reflect in your eyes too,
Maybe you still need to understand why the waves rush to the shore,
And that my sea of life, so deeply wants to you to be my only shore,
Where to all my dreams, my desires, my wishes flow,
And I shall wish for nothing else anymore, just to be in this ceaseless flow,
Where all my waves of life pass through you and unto you,
To rest at the shore where my life feels it has eventually found you,
In my every wish and my heart’s every desire,
Where you are the last and only shore of my life and you my only desire,
Then when my sea of life pours into your life’s territory,
Love shall find an immortal existence in this endless territory,
Where all your wishes and my infinite desires form its boundary,
And we shall live within this territory of love, where only our wishes form its territory,
So let these lapping waves of the sea of life feel your feet,
For as you wade through the waters of life I shall feel thy feet,
Walking through the landscape of my endless desires and wishes,
Perhaps then Irma, you would let your sea of life empty itself into the territory of my wishes,
Then we shall let our heart beats float along with these rushing waves of life,
Until our universe is reduced to your wishes, my desires and only our life,
Maybe then, maybe then, the waves of life will rise no more,
For then our lives would have found and rested at the most placid shore.
Where a feeling of serenity spreads like a vast blanket over the sea of life,
And loving each other becomes the only desire and the single wish of life,
Then my love, the moon shall shine and you will be mine,
And we shall surrender our identities because now, all my joys will be yours and all your desires will be mine.
”
”
Javid Ahmad Tak (They Loved in 2075!)
“
The Timid Gods!
When the sun shines high,
And it leaves its morning shyness,
As it dominates the light spreading across the vastness of the sky,
Then let me reflect back to it your loveliness,
When the sun beams dazzle over flowers many,
And they sway with the afternoon breeze,
Let me show them your beautiful avatars many,
And ah their unease,
When the river flows at its enjoyable pace to meet the sea,
Then let me submerge your essences into the infinite reservoir of feelings,
Then as the river meets the sea, let it see,
That in the sea of beauty every drop, every wave and every ripple is a creation of your beauty’s dealings,
When the God of beauty wakes up from the blissful sleep,
Let me cast your shadows around the universe,
And as its reflections to and fro leap,
Then let the God’s realise their acts perverse,
Because Gods sometimes resort to fiendish timidity,
Where they believe the universe is for them alone,
And when I show them your beauty,
Then let them realise that they too, to many weaknesses are prone,
When the winter approaches and the rose in the winter garden lies abandoned,
By the summer kisses and beauty’s secret visitations,
Let me make you touch its heart that in winter freeze lies stoned,
Then let the God’s feel their privations,
And when my love Irma, you allow me to,
I shall create a new order in the Universe,
Where love given is the love received too,
Then, that shall be the universe to which no one shall be averse.
”
”
Javid Ahmad Tak (They Loved in 2075!)
“
What Are These Thoughts Irma?
What are these dreams that you beget me,
What are these memories with which you still mesmerise me,
What are these thoughts Irma where I always wish to be,
What are these visions that your endless beauty brings to me,
What is this feeling with which you embrace me,
What is this spell of love in which I always wish to be,
What are these sweet longings that your thoughts beget me,
What is that I feel whenever I think of thee,
Why is it that I always with you wish to be,
Whether I am in a quiet forest or a vast sea,
Why is it that I always wish to see thee,
Why is it that I want you to invade me?
With your senses until your heart beats echo inside me,
And then let the heaven know that you belong to me,
And this is how till eternity it shall now be,
Where I would spend infinity loving thee,
And I hope, you too with the same passion will forever love me!
”
”
Javid Ahmad Tak (They Loved in 2075!)
“
Where my heart wanders!
Where does my heart often tend to wander,
This is what I often wonder,
Where does she meet me in my dreams,
As she descends all over me riding those Moon beams,
Where do her thoughts often lead me from my sleepy world,
Why is it that I like her long hair when it is slightly curled,
As she gazes at me with those sparkling eyes,
Why is it that many stars miss their twinkle in those night skies,
When she presents me the Summer rose,
Why I feel she keeps humming in my mind love’s most melodious prose,
Then wherever she goes, I follow her like the summer rose,
Here there and everywhere until I sing back to her, her own love prose,
And then as her face with charm and joy glows,
I look at her beautiful smile and my heart beat slows,
Then as she holds my hand and there I transfixed stand,
Why is it that my desire and my feelings nothing demand,
For every desire now seems fulfilled and every wish satisfied,
In your presence Irma my world is perfectly beautified,
No longer to oscillate between desires and wishes,
For a feeling of love that springs from the heart never perishes,
Time becomes its custodian,
And the will of God its guardian!
”
”
Javid Ahmad Tak (They Loved in 2075!)
“
I loved you little by little!
Little by little and bit by bit,
I came to love you under the skies star lit,
Far or near you always seemed within reach,
Where every moment exclusively of your beauty and your sweet memories did preach,
In moments new and old,
Your memories on the horizon of mind shone like the sky of gold,
Moments sad and pensive, all moments,
It was just your image that rose from time’s all monuments,
In summers warm and winters cold,
The only wish that persisted, was the wish to always behold and hold,
Just you, you in the brightness of the day and in the darkness of the night,
And feel your kisses like the kiss of love’s light,
In everything and in nothing too,
My wish Irma, has always been to find you, just you,
And the sky that spreads from north to south and east to west,
I have always focused my direction on you, because you are my mind’s and my heart’s only quest,
In those points where high is defined and deep is felt,
My feelings wish to either rise, or just sink, always and only with you to melt,
In the sky with the stars or the Sun,
I care for nothing, just you and me, and our feelings that shall unite us as one,
In my moments of belief and in my moments of hopelessness,
Come what may, my mind never quits thinking about our togetherness,
Maybe this is what love does to a human heart, I may not know,
Because my love Irma, my mind and heart is busy basking in your beautiful memories and your beauty’s endless glow,
So whether I am in Heaven or Hell,
I know I shall love you always, and so very well, that no one, not even you can fathom or tell!
”
”
Javid Ahmad Tak (They Loved in 2075!)
“
When I am with you Irma
Life is an experience of learnings and undoings,
A ceaseless cluster of moments adored and detested,
But for lovers it is all about love and its choosings,
Where the heart investigates the feelings against which the mind protested,
A pursuit that never ends,
A cycle of feelings always in a state of motion,
For what the mind dislikes the love smitten heart often defends,
Only to prove that lovers have its own notion,
About life, about time, about reality and about dreams too,
They somehow can enslave time and bend the reality,
Whenever a lover says, “my darling I love you!”
At this moment of serenity, time gets installed in their lives as the patron deity,
And reality begins to please them in all possible ways,
As these lovers live in this self made reality,
They do not yearn for anything, not even new days,
Because when in love, life is like the Summer rose, a life of beauty and perfect austerity!
”
”
Javid Ahmad Tak (They Loved in 2075!)
“
Climbing The Mountain of Life Together!
Let us climb the mountain of life together,
Just you and me forever,
To climb higher and higher,
To feel the love’s embrace forever and ever,
Then when we have arrived at the summit,
Let us rest for a while and reassure our grit,
As we renew our faith in each other and to each other we recommit,
Our lives, our love and our feelings of passion and wit,
Let us rise again,
Whether we are surrounded by joys or feeling a little sprain,
Let us not refrain,
From kissing each others soul under the love’s rain,
At the summit of the life’s mountain,
Where lies the hollowness of hell and the eternity’s fountain,
Let us choose to bathe in this fountain,
And claim our rightful place on the life’s mountain,
Where we ascend all the peaks, all lowlands and high ground,
Until we arrive at the place where time nowhere can be found,
Because then our love, you and me, is all that can be found,
So let me, my darling Irma, to your love and your thoughts be bound,
And rise as a happy morning sunshine,
That always spreads over you to make you forever mine,
Let me feel this feeling divine and fine,
And make you forever mine,
Then let us climb no further,
For now we shall exist as the love light and live forever together,
And touch new peaks and spread the light farther,
And I shall love you in the infinity of today where we are always together,
You and I, and I always with you, and you forever with me,
Then let us wish together and so it shall be,
Together forever,just you and me,
At least that is all I shall seek from eternity if it so were to be!
”
”
Javid Ahmad Tak (They Loved in 2075!)
“
Let me kiss you Irma!
There in the middle, in the space between the light and dark,
Let me love you in the corners bright,
Where your heart beat is the mark,
To guide me through the mist of time with all my might,
Because my love it is you that spreads like brightness in my world,
Where your memories cast everlasting light,
On the darkest and desolate corners of my world,
And then fills me with the spirit to fight,
All my demons and my fears,
Your simple look offers me endless joy,
As my existence the drapery of your brightness wears,
And I begin to foil life’s every ploy,
To oust me from my dominion, that is mine,
But little does it know one can never steal the scent from the rose,
And your memories that enrich me, become my goldmine,
Granting me courage that before the brightest flash of life, I may put up my best pose,
So come let me bear you in my arms,
Let me kiss you like the night kisses everything beyond those shadows,
And as my heart with these beautiful feelings warms,
Let me offer smiles to the life’s marooned widows,
Who have moaned enough and grieved a lot,
Let me kiss you and then wage the war,
Between the right and the evil in the reality’s merciless plot,
It may happen that then stars that seem too far,
Would tumble from the skies,
To bury the evil in the star dust,
But let us tread with caution for haste is only good when catching flies,
For lovers always do what they must,
It is the destiny of love and maybe the price of the kiss,
That we all pay for with our heart beats,
So let me hold you in my arms and feel my real bliss,
Before my fate confronts the destiny and my courage both of them meets,
In the open playground of life and chance,
Where the truthful and the valiant always wins,
Because it is a well coordinated dance,
Where one always has to win though it is a competition between the twins,
So kiss me and wish for my victory,
Because through me you shall win too,
As we are cast in the life’s endless trajectory,
Where there shall always be one constant Irma, that, I love you,
So, let the stars bear witness to valour of love,
And as you kiss me, let the stars tumble from the skies,
Then let no one seek the Heavens above,
Because for our love, our passions and joys, here is where a lover dies,
And this is where Christ died,
This is where crusades were waged,
This is where goodness was promoted and this is where Judas lied,
And this is where lovers are caged,
So let our battles of love be fought here,
For a kiss, for a warm embrace, for a sweet memory’s sake,
Then as I see you and your beauty everywhere,
Let me love you forever for love’s and my own sake,
Tonight when the sky shall be lit with many a twinkling star,
I shall wait under the open sky and the moonlight,
And as my eyes behold their darling most star,
We shall then be the shadows in the darkness secretly kissing our heart beats in the cover of the night.
To cast particles of darkness and cover the moonlight,
And make it a part of our own shadows,
Then we shall create a romantic night,
As we freely fleet across the night’s endless love meadows.
”
”
Javid Ahmad Tak (They Loved in 2075!)
“
Our feelings and our eyes
I asked her, “Irma, what have you done?”
She looked at me and replied, “nothing!”
I cannot find few of my heart beats a lot seems undone,
But there was a feeling that reminded me of something,
And I tracked the rhythm of my every heart beat,
Which led just to one trace,
That whenever I see her and our eyes meet,
My heart loses its pace,
And there goes my heart beat missing in between this space,
The distance between her eyes and mine,
Though we stand on the same ground at the same place,
Yet my heart beats rush towards her making a bee line,
Just to beat closer to her heart,
To feel her warmth and swim in the sea of her feelings,
And as these love seeking heart beats depart,
My heart cries in its painful reelings,
Where it finds itself left in the wilderness of nowhere,
She is there, her heart is there too,
But our eyes still tend to wander somewhere,
Where she is willing to say I love you,
But her heart beats are yet to feel the miracle of a missing heart beat,
That always rushes unto me,
Creating love’s fondest retreat,
Where wherever I may see, I see her and she only sees me,
This is the distance that grows in the eyes,
That only these missing heart beats can shorten,
Just like when I look at those skies,
I am always by her beauty smitten,
Her eyes, her smiles, her face and her sweet ways,
Are actually the twinkle that the night stars bear,
And ah their pain on those Sunny and bright days,
When they long to see her,
But today, she looked at me and I felt she plugged into my spirit,
And a heart beat unknown sank into me with it,
Then she started beating in my every heart beat,
And how I loved my heart beat, and repeat and repeat,
With every heartbeat, “I love you too.”
And then the distance in our eyes vanished suddenly,
As I held her in my arms and said, “I was born to love you!”
And then our two hearts, beat as one and forever happily.
”
”
Javid Ahmad Tak (They Loved in 2075!)
“
Your and our sea of love!
The night sea, calm and silent,
With the lapping sound of waves,
There my heart wanders, my heart indulgent,
And floats with these waves,
Into the ocean of feelings,
Into the depths of emotions,
And I doubt my heart’s dealings,
As it creates new waves of emotions,
Where I feel wet with your embrace,
And the waves of life surround me from every side,
And I seek you riding these waves and merge with your grace,
Feeling the beauty of your beautiful face that now stares at me from every side,
And then my love Irma, I let myself sink to the bottom,
As your feelings, your memories, your touch pile over me,
And now I can even feel your every atom,
As your conscience of love sinks into me,
At the bottom of the life’s sea,
Where ripples and waves distract the casual seeker of love,
Because the pearls lie at the bottom of the sea,
Just like you, every moment sinking into me silently, in this sea of love,
Where I am the waves, I am the ripples, I am the sea,
And you are the motion that keeps me alive,
And in this state I shall now forever be,
With you and the sea of life forever in me alive,
Then at the bottom as you secretly kiss me,
Some mariner shall feel the joy in his heart,
And so shall begin the cycle of new waves, new tides in the sea,
Where now the sea, the waves, the pearl, everything is part of our heart,
That beats endlessly over the surface of the sea,
To inspire the true mariner of the sea seeking life and love,
To him we shall bear the visions of what he can be,
A lover, just like you and me, who always finds his true love,
So Irma, let the sea of feelings and your memories grow over me,
And let me at the bottom lie submerged, in this vivid presence of thee,
Where you are the water, the sea, and everything for me,
For my true world is created only when I love thee!
And this is what my wish for the true mariner of life shall always be,
Seeking love, seeking a wave of passion to ride,
And dearing to dive into this sea,
At the bottom to discover you and me,
Lying in the wet embrace that spreads in all directions,
Wherever a true mariner turns to see,
Our reflections to discover love’s true sensations,
And imagines about the wonder if he too with his lover could dwell in this sea, our sea! And see,
The wonder of love and the wonder of the sea,
Where life grows on the surface and at the bottom too,
For I love you Irma on the surface of the sea,
And at its bottom too,
So let this mariner come and brave the sea of life,
As we cast our spell of love in the form of waves and infinite ripples,
Let him discover his own meaningful strife,
And flow endlessly with these ripples,
To finally tarry at the bottom of this sea,
Where now his lover shall tame his weary mind,
Just like you do it for me,
And make me believe even your heart has a mind, a beautiful mind!
That often thinks of me,
And dares to plunge into the darkness of the sea,
Only to seek me,
And realise that at the bottom you and I are the life of the sea!
Where many mariners and lovers lie in their state humbled,
To flow with these waves endlessly,
As we at the bottom of this sea lie passionately cuddled,
Like the pearl in an oyster, forever and endlessly!
”
”
Javid Ahmad Tak (They Loved in 2075!)
“
You and me on the shores of river of life
Standing there with you holding your hand,
Just looking at you in the idleness of the moment,
As I feel your breaths and beside you I stand,
There is endless calm, yet I understand what you meant,
So I walk with you through the serpentine gullies,
And I greet life with a smile and never floundering will,
While being pleased by sites of rainbows and lilies,
That dance for you at their own free will,
I hold on to your hand more firmly,
And I turn to look at you and you smile,
And I say, “I love you,” and I say it finally,
You pause, and think for a while,
As you slide your hand tenderly,
To place it on my face,
And then you kiss me sweetly,
And my heart beats race,
I hold your hand once again,
And we continue walking through these serpentine gullies,
As I rub your little finger again and again,
And I feel the scent growing all over you, the scent of these happy lilies,
Then we approach the river of life,
And at its shores you embrace me,
And you finally say, “I want to be your wife,”
Then you hold me and we stare at the river, just you and me,
And as we enter its water and we flow with it now,
You dissolve in me and I dissolve in you,
And we now flow as an essence of you and me and our love,
But whenever I look back Irma, I see a reflection of you,
Still at the shore,
Where I hold your hand while the river of life flows by,
There are no worries no torments anymore,
Because we have together left them in the past to die,
And as your reflection spreads over the river of life,
You flow unto me,
And as I accept you as my wife,
In the presence of the river of life, you say, “this is how I always wanted to be!”
And then I too become the river and flow within it,
To flow with you into the sea of eternity,
And then be there forever, only with you and with it,
And experience love in its splendour of eternity,
Where you live forever,
And I exist within you,
In this sea of feelings and love, as your only lover,
While experiencing that loving embrace of you,
For which I could cross any river and scale the depths of any sea,
Because loving you is a discovery unto my own self,
And when I dive into my life’s sea,
You rise from the floor of the sea and you begin to flow through me yourself,
Then my darling Irma, I let it be,
Because our river of life has found its final destiny,
Where I belong to you and you belong only to me,
And I wish this to be our only and everlasting reality!
”
”
Javid Ahmad Tak (They Loved in 2075!)
“
Infinity of your thoughts
Time does not seem to pass,
As moments appear to be frozen in an unknown thought,
I try hard to bypass,
This eerie feeling and the war always lost yet often fought,
And I wonder what is this feeling,
This enigmatic state of endless time,
With which I have now been for very long dealing,
A state where time no longer remembers it is time,
Then in this moment,
Where infinity is cast in a battle with finity,
Time remains suspended in an uncertain moment,
Where every virtue exists except for certainty,
As the war rages and both lose,
Infinity retreats to its zone while finity retains its domain,
And time that had been held trapped in this noose,
Now attains its lost state and claims its lost domain,
That spreads across infinity in the subsets of finity,
Then my darling Irma, I love you infinitely,
Because now there is certainty,
And I want you to know, you are my only joy, my moment in time, my eternity,
As time resumes its pace,
I think of you in the lanes of my mind,
And within it I discover our space,
Where time still lies trapped, and it does not mind,
This existence in a moment where infinity lies everywhere,
The infinity of your feelings, your memories and your beauty,
And there I lie thinking of you always somewhere,
To feed the appetite of our love and its eternity,
So if you ever talk to me my love,
Maybe I am thinking in this corner feeding the infinity,
Of your beauty and our love,
To steal from time, from fate, from the Universe, our destiny,
Where you lie within me,
And we lie in this space of infinity,
You loving me and I loving thee,
Discovering the charms of your beauty,
That is where my love I shall be,
If you ever talk to me and you still need to find me,
Walk into my mind, but tread softly for you shall be treading over infinity,
Where I have spread my feelings just for thee, only thee,
And as you behold me,
Do not hesitate to wake me up,
There in the corner of my mind where I shall always be,
Kiss me and wake me up,
Then let me cast you into the infinity of my mind and its thoughts,
And reveal your own beauty to you,
And as you wake up in the infinity of my thoughts,
Allow me to cast the veil of infinity bearing your beauty and you,
Then let time stop forever,
Because now there shall be no need of new thoughts or new feelings,
And we shall now exist forever, and forever,
In infinities impenetrable ceilings,
Where everything is just you and me,
Nothing else, and where nothing exists,
You and I lying in an eternally amorous state and what a wonder it shall be,
Because now there is no identity, I am you and you are me,
And both of us surrounded by eternity,
In the universe where we have created our own space beyond every scalable limit,
And we have become the masters of our own destiny,
With nothing to include and nothing to omit,
Because there is only one need,
Your love for me and my love for you,
And there is nothing to worry about or heed,
Just your beauty and you, only you, in an endless existence where it is only you,
Everywhere, here and there and even that space that time refers to as somewhere,
There we lie wound on every loop of infinity,
To spread with it everywhere,
And believe in the beauty of our singular destiny!
”
”
Javid Ahmad Tak (They Loved in 2075!)
“
Our universe of love!
Let us wander like these carefree clouds,
All across the sky,
Let us create love’s heart beats and its sounds,
And then let the two hearts freely fly,
Like these clouds in the sky,
Where love abounds,
And we float like these clouds by and by,
To create a feeling that knows no bounds,
Where there is only one destiny,
The eternity of you and me,
And as time every creation confounds in its final act of tyranny,
And nothing exists now between you and me,
Neither the space, nor time or light,
For now there shall only be,
You and me, no space, no time and no light,
An endless you floating through the infinite me,
In this state of nothingness and eternal silence,
Then as your heart beats for me Irma, and mine for thee,
We shall rescue the universe from this sentence,
And create a universe for you and me,
By lending it our heart beats,
Then as the romantic sound waves travel through the darkness,
And the darkness finally retreats,
Then the universe gets created in its loveliness,
And in it Irma, lie our heart beats,
In every atom, every corner, every ray of light,
And as my passion your passions meets,
We become our own and the universe’s infinite delight,
Where now we are what universe is,
And the universe is our creation,
For whatever there is,
It is only our heart beats, our feelings and our single sensation,
That lies in this universe of everything,
But for you and me, it is our abode of love,
And whenever you whisper and I hear something,
It is the whisper of endless love, your and just our love,
Where the stars are formed every moment,
And the universe expands at its happy pace,
It develops few feelings benevolent,
And creates for you and me, our secret space,
That lies beyond the limits of time,
Where even light sees nothing,
For lovers love to reside in infinite moments of time,
Where even a small thing has the potential to be the God of everything,
Just like our love that for now is the creator of the universe,
Where our love thrives and travels everywhere,
You within me while I flow within you, and together we traverse,
To finally lie in our secret somewhere, that for everyone else is nowhere, only for you and me always there somewhere!
”
”
Javid Ahmad Tak (They Loved in 2075!)
“
Bring me the stars
She wanted me to bring her those stars,
I looked at the sky and wondered how far they could be,
They had witnessed moments of triumph, romance and many wars,
And from where I was they appeared too distant to me,
But then a feeling greeted me suddenly,
“To know how far , far can be; you must go,
Bring her the stars she loves so passionately,
And how much she loves you, you shall know!”
I could dare the dark even the unknown,
But being unable to see her would be like witnessing the sky without stars,
And in my thoughts in these distant skies I have often flown,
Knowing that she is beside me, kissing me, touching me, unlike these far away stars,
Yet her wish, her desire, is like this night sky to me,
Where the stars indeed exist,
But somehow this sky of mine where she is everything, she fails to see,
Perhaps this is why from seeking these new and unknown stars I resist,
But tonight she kissed me with her eyes and she spread over my soul,
And said, “I want those stars and the sky too.”
I wondered how I could steal the empire of Gods whole,
But for her love, her smile, her warm and wet kisses, I can anything do,
So I held her in my embrace and felt her everywhere,
Then I let her drown into my eyes,
And from there, when she returned she had retrieved the sky, the stars from somewhere,
Then her smile and the passion in her eyes,
Poured over me like the million kisses of love,
And from this night onwards, whenever she loves me in the darkness of the night,
I hold her warm body in my arms and kiss her with the feeling of love,
And then she dives into my eyes of passion to retrieve her objects of delight,
It has been so, since that night, that starry night,
When I realised how far, far can be,
And with the feeling of love one can even steal the starlight,
At least this is how I feel Irma, whenever you confess you love me!
”
”
Javid Ahmad Tak (They Loved in 2075!)
“
Let Me Hold Your Hand
Take my hand and let us walk past this meadow,
Where we are surrounded by sunshine, and only our shadow,
That spreads over the tips of grass blades,
Where your beauty my every sense invades,
There let me surrender my prudence before your beauty,
And let me love you Irma, with all my piety,
To erect your sweet memories as Goddesses in the temple of my existence,
To kiss you with devotion and submit myself to your love and its trance,
Then let me stare at your beautiful face till eternity,
And as I get submerged in this sea of passion and renewed feeling of sanity,
Let me hold you in my arms and lift you unto the Heaven,
To make Gods jealous, for in you I have already found my heaven,
So what shall They offer me now to own my loyalties,
For from you my love, I draw my life’s royalties,
Then let me bargain with the Gods from the above,
And seek eternity for you and for me only your love,
So it shall be done my darling and so it shall be now,
I belong to you, and before your grace I shall take an obedient bow,
To love you forever in the sanctum of my life and place you as the highest God,
While I love you Irma, let me thank the Gods too, for without you and me they might feel a bit odd,
So as we walk past the meadow of life holding our hands,
I shall always love you in the midst of this myriad collection of flower bands!
”
”
Javid Ahmad Tak (They Loved in 2075!)
“
Our universe of gold
Until then let the gold in me spread all across the sea,
For in the sea of infinity, there is the pine tree, the moonlight, but you are my only royalty,
For whom in actuality I created the gold sea,
The mist , the river and all await to be kissed by your beauty, to feel that eternal reality!
Welcome to my universe Irma, where everything is for you,
The pine tree, the mist, the river and even their maker,
Who has missed you and always sought you,
Right from childhood when the universe was young and I was still a silly dreamer,
Maybe you still want to ponder on accepting me as your lover,
Because I live in rooms, I am homeless, but I never live in empty spaces,
I fill them with my love, my passion like a true seeker,
But in doing so , I sometimes feel emptiness within me and only your love can fill these void spaces,
So rescue me and I shall rescue you right back,
I will let you be the little girl still inside you,
Who can fearlessly traverse the lengths of my universe white and black,
Where everything is for you because it exists because of you!
”
”
Javid Ahmad Tak (They Loved in 2075!)
“
Let me love you!
Let us tend to our life like a flower,
Tender, beautiful, without any conflict,
Let us fill our senses with this flower,
And put an end to every emotional conflict,
Let our feelings be like the sunflower,
Always thinking of and staring at the Sun,
Let us radiate with the beauty of the sunflower,
And allow our love to be our everlasting Sun,
Let my every feeling rush towards you,
Like the waves rushing to the shore,
Then let me sink into you,
And no more shall I ever seek any other shore,
Let me be the song of the Summer joys,
The song of happy brooks, the tender fluttering of flowers,
Let me lend you all these Summer joys,
And in you create my gardens of love and beautiful flowers,
Let me share all my secrets with you,
Like the wind that shares hers with trees, flowers and everything,
Let me feel every part of you,
And like the wind, cover you, your shadows and everything,
Let me be the Moon that shines every night,
Mild, faint, subtle, light; yet bright enough,
To let me see you everywhere even in the darkness of the night,
And in the day under the Sun too, because seeing you forever is not enough,
Let me be that every reason that makes you happy,
Then glide gently across the territory of your mind and heart,
Let me be this feeling that always makes you feel happy,
And then my love Irma, l shall let my feelings be a part of your heart.
”
”
Javid Ahmad Tak (They Loved in 2075!)