A Calm Storm

The blog of Sholeh Samadani Munion

Month: April 2007

The child

I am seeing the same things, so why would my words be different? Today the air was dust and rain at the same time, my bare feet on marble, my soul bared to Heaven, My eyes searching for change. I’ll…

The Roses

There is a richness in the colors and textures of roses that are unlike anything else. I see a bed of roses and my tired eyes are soothed. I want to play tag amidst the rich petals and thorns hiding…

Potato Soup

so there are helicopters fluttering in my soul unimpressed with this current state of mind. retreat, retreat! the horns blow, and I know that the spaces after words are settled in their designated places. —————————————— I invested in a slow…

Look up

when I tasted the rain there was salt on my tongue, and I knew the sea was in the sky today. there is dust on my hands and I wait. ————————– Tomorrow is the first day of Ridvan, one of…

Today

today I was alone in the Shrine for 30 minutes and I let the rare tears fall today I realized that the jasmine flowers are opening up and I chased the faint scent around the gardens today I thanked God…

Home sick

I’d like to say, for the record, that while I love being lazy and staying home once in a while, a couple of weeks worth of being trapped in your flat can do weird things to your brain. I’ve started…

Around a corner

there are patterns in hallucination there are a dozen ways to look down upon a place you once knew I know those summer afternoons in a city, watch as the flowered sun dresses of the elite clatter by the shiny…

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