desert with
its mystery lanes,
absolutely
stunning planes
People welcoming,
rural scene
million times
I have been
it is still refreshing
earth talks to me
telling all the tales
who succeeded and failed
what happened
to that buddy of mine
losing all hopes
still he shined
life, it travails
still around
walk in Bazaar,
smiles abound
everyone acknowledges
your being, presence
care and affection
no city ignorance
London, New York
Rio and Rome
all seen and measured
nothing like home
and I am home
it feels good
and it should!
Beautiful and colorful. Lovely.
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Thank you that is very kind of you to absorb and appreciate 🙂
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Fascinating photographs, such brilliant colours – I especially like the hoopoe, it reminds me of when I saw a hoopoe in Sussex when I was very young, I still remember the thrill of that hoopoe flying into the garden….
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Thank you so much for the compliment, beauty is all around us we just need to take notice. I am really glad that it also reminded you of your childhood 🙂 I will be posting more of the same soon!
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Beautiful photos 🙂
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Thank you 🙂
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Excellent photos!
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Many thanks 🙂
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Such impeccable beauty of seemingly marginalized or no-luxury areas…too much drawing..pull 🙂
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Thank you, kind of you to come around, the world is just simply beautiful, humans have made the class and creed barriers 🙂
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All the beauties of the combined are not as beautiful as our Motherland…
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Lovely photographs 🙂 We have Hoopoe birds here in Bulgaria, a slightly different type though I think.
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🙂 thank you, show me your version of Hoopoe one day 🙂
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Awesome pics!
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Many thanks 🙂
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Nice photos. I especially like the one of the chickens with the tower in the background; full of contrasts. good work.
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Thank you 🙂
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I’m blown away by the colors. It seems like the US just doesn’t have those colors.
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Thank you, US does have its most wonderful colours as well, just the mix is different 🙂
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What lovely images; I really enjoyed looking at them.
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Thank you so much 🙂
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Beautiful photos! 🙂
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Thank you so much 🙂
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you’re welcome, I like them 🙂
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🙂 good to know 🙂
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🙂
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sarso ke pile pile khet…loving it 😀
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Aap ka buhat buhat shukria 🙂
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Beautiful
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Many thanks 🙂
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AB… your homeland is so Beautiful…!!
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Many many thanks 🙂
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You are very welcome, have a Beautiful day!! 🙂
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You too 🙂
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Thank you, it was such a Beautiful day at work today 🙂 !!
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🙂 enjoy 🙂
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❤ !!
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Interesting rural country, your hometown. Thanks for sharing. 🙂
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Pleasure is all mine 🙂
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Lovely photos, I enjoyed my visit to rural Sindh, have only been to Karachi.
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You should venture out next time you are in Karachi 🙂
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Beautiful! Thank you for sharing.
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Colourful, bucolic, simple, and ageless. A wonderful place to have come from, AB. Bit of a …a … fork in the road you took …
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Absolutely, all sophistication and no soul kind of fork 🙂
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Wow! Amazing shots and love the poem that goes along. =)
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Thank you for your generosity 😀
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Home sweet home!
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Indeed 😀
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The feeling of being home again is incomparable. There’s this compulsive devouring of the familiar and the curiosity and search for the new. Never cease to induce a smile. 🙂
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Very well said Ember, there is something about place of your birth specially if it is a small community 😀
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Lovely AB. Are you in Pakistan right now?
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Hello gorgeous, I am mentally always there, perhaps not physically 😀
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🙂 Home is where the heart is, right?
Awwwwwwwwww, you’re sweet.
🙂
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Nicely done! Spent some time in Sind in the mid-90s; Nice to see it again. Regards.
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Brilliant! good to know that, yes it is place which, even after all the development neglect and population explosion, has not lost its soul.
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wonderful and beautiful photos
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Thank you so much 😀
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Very nice pics. Just yesterday, Karachiwala.com posted a blog on Thar (on the Dawn website). Think you might like that one and recent ones on his travels in Sind. Here is the one from yesterday:
http://www.dawn.com/news/1142920/thar-the-surreal-magic-of-kasbo-and-churiyo
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Many thanks for the share, I will certainly read it 😀
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Oh wow these photos are fantastic! I love your poem and well! The photo with the goats is so wonderful they all are! 😄😄
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Many thanks Michelle, glad you like the raw beauty of this simple place 😀
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I do
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Many thanks again
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What a refreshing view of life. Thanx for sharing these photos. Peace.
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It is my utmost pleasure, thank you so much.
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How I would love to visit!
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You are most welcome to Sonya 😀
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Reblogged this on One Happy Blog and commented:
Love love love this! 🙂
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Many thanks for the reblog
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I love the poem – it feels like you found the exact words to describe the feeling deep in my heart with this – “earth talks to me telling all the tales” . I love exploring new and old places in the foreign lands and at home and that’s exactly how I feel, as if earth talks to me painting the most magnificent pictures and telling me the most interesting stories.
Your pictures are amazing as well! Thank you for this amazing experience and journey you took us on with this post! 🙂
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It is my utmost pleasure to take you on this journey, infact I enjoy this more than others 🙂
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so bright and colorful–full of life.
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thank you so much 😀
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Lovely
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thank you
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Thats so amazing, I can so relate 🙂 #Sindh
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Pleased to hear that 😀
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Beautiful and lovely photos 😀
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Thank you so much for your continued support 🙂
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Thank you for liking “Red Geraniums.” I enjoyed your wonderful, colorful photos and heartfelt poem. It made me think that it is indeed a fortunate circumstance to grow up in a loving home and a close-knit community.
Your post reminds me of the stories that my father would tell me of his childhood home. He lived in a rural area and grew up on a farm. His family grew various crops and sold them at the local market. Your photos of chickens and goats made me think about his pet rooster and his pet goat. He also had a dog. Although the rooster and the dog did not get along, they would look for my dad together when he was out trying to find grass for the water buffaloes that pulled the plow on the farm. The dog would track my dad, and the rooster would follow. The people in his neighborhood knew each other and helped each other out. He learned some useful skills from some of his neighbors, and they sometimes gave him odd jobs to do that allowed him to earn a little extra money. Life was not easy for my father when he was young. His family was poor, and he often spent so much time doing work on the farm that he did not have a lot of time for his school work. However, he was happy that he grew up where he did and would not trade his experiences there for the world.
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Dear Arlene, such a wonderful description of your father’s life. I think you should write a brilliant story of an immigrant’s life in USA (fiction with some interesting side stories) and use all the wonderful (and sometime painful) experiences which you nicely document and are able to articulate so wonderfully 🙂
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Thank you, AB. 🙂 I am glad that you enjoyed my description. It might be fun to try to write a fiction story somewhat based on my life experiences when I have a little more free time than I do now.
What I have also been thinking about is writing down the stories that my mother and father told me about their lives and some of the advice that they gave to me. I don’t plan on publishing them, but it would be nice to have a record of them.
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Indeed you do that, your prose is very well thought and beautifully written 🙂
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Thank you. 🙂 If I manage to do all of this writing, I can send some of it to you if you are curious to read it.
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I am always extremely curious, you must have figured it out by now 🙂
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Yes, I did, and I am glad that you are. 🙂
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Thanks for the lovely colorful photograph. It’s like walking into a bazaar or carnival, all the color flavors hit you at once, overwhelming you with their smell.
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You are very kind Jack, well the scent is of the dessert I am from when the first drops of rain touches the sand after a long and hard scorching summer 🙂
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Wow, seeing Sindh with your camera is just another amazing thing. I would love to know where you actually from in rural Sindh?
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Thar desert 🙂
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Really? I am fortunate to meet such an awesome person whose place of birth is same as mine and who is sharing his magical work with a huge crowd. (Y)
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Absolutely and it is a pleasure to meet a fellow Thari neengri 🙂
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Well, this Thari neengri still lives in the little-so-established city, a gateway to Thar.
I feel so good to be your follower.
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The Cantt is quite nicely built in your town 🙂 > > >
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Are you talking about Chorr Cantt? I did my early schooling there.
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Indeed 🙂 a pleasure meeting you Chor Chokri 🙂 > > >
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Wow! I am already feeling super amazed to meet you. Were you also a student there?
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Nopes 🙂
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Ahan, alright 🙂
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Wow, saying right,
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Beautiful, Sindh ka bigda rup Hind.
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Interesting and varied shots, indeed!
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It is a unique place 🙂
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