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Happy Snow!- budku2 – a repost
after playing in snow he comes home a confection ...
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vete a la mierda no voy a hacer lo que me dices que me ...
the senior lounge lizard croons “fuck you i won’t do what you tell me.” “fuck you i won’t do what you tell me.” “fuck you i won’t do what you tell me.” “fuck you i won’t do what you tell me.” while the nurse hands out medication. lyrics:Rage Against the Machine ...
God needs us as much as we need God 2006 ...
She greets us at the dock. We bring her ashes. From the boat we spread them upon her river. Bone grit explodes into a thousand circles welcoming home her borrowed physicality. 2007 ...
IndieFeed: Performance Poetry
Show Number 676. Learn more about Alix Olson. Contact Mongo, your show host! Check out The IndieFeed Performance Poetry Channel at iTunes and 1-click auto-subscribe CLICK HERE TO LISTEN!...
Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz - Ode to My Morning Cup of Coffee
Show Number 675. Learn more about Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz. Contact Mongo, your show host! Check out The IndieFeed Performance Poetry Channel at iTunes and 1-click auto-subscribe CLICK HERE TO LISTEN!...
Show Number 674. Learn more about Mahogany Browne. Contact Mongo, your show host! Check out The IndieFeed Performance Poetry Channel at iTunes and 1-click auto-subscribe CLICK HERE TO LISTEN!...
Connor Dooley and Ian Khadan - Purple Octopus and Regular Colored Badger
Show Number 673. Learn more about Connor Dooley and Ian Khadan. Contact Mongo, your show host! Check out The IndieFeed Performance Poetry Channel at iTunes and 1-click auto-subscribe CLICK HERE TO LISTEN!...
Ian Khadan - Thirteen Ways the Turtle Plays the Turntables
Show Number 672. Learn more about Ian Khadan. Contact Mongo, your show host! Check out The IndieFeed Performance Poetry Channel at iTunes and 1-click auto-subscribe CLICK HERE TO LISTEN!...
Connor Dooley - On Turning Girls Into Goldfish
Show Number 671. Learn more about Connor Dooley. Contact Mongo, your show host! Check out The IndieFeed Performance Poetry Channel at iTunes and 1-click auto-subscribe CLICK HERE TO LISTEN!...
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Reimagining the Poet-Critic: Practice, Pedagogy, Poetics A conference at University of California Santa Cruz, March 12-13, 2010. Two days of poetry and conversation.This conference invites participation in a series of dialogues about the role of the poet-scholar. As a practitioner of poetry or other "imaginative" writing and more theoretical or critical...
West Wind Review 2010 Coming Soon!
COMING SOON:WEST WIND REVIEW 2010Featuring Shane Allison, Brian Ang, Nathan Austin, Elizabeth Bachinsky, Daniel Bailey, Dave Barrett, Franklin Bruno, Marie Buck, Clint Burnham, Dereck Clemons, Jordan Davis, Nick Demske, Tiffany Denman, Brittany Dennison, Christopher DeWeese, Andrew Dieck, Brandon Downing, Cathy Eisenhower, Laura Elrick, Phil Estes, Michael Farrell, Angela Genusa, Judith...
EMERGENT FORMS: A 21st-CENTURY READING SERIESpresentsGREGORY BETTSAuthor of The Others Raisd in Me (Pedlar Press, 2009) and If Language (BookThug, 2005)WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 247pmBohemia Gallery552 "A" StreetAshland, OR 97520FREE$10 suggested donationsponsored by SOU's English & Writing program and West Wind Review...
ABRAHAM LINCOLNissue the fifthsummer/fall 200955 pp.Well, it's ABOUT TIME. Abraham Lincoln #5 comes screeching and hissing out of its dark crevice in the earth just in time for whatever festive, many-feathered seasonal ritual you strange gentle people celebrate. This issue is so tasty you'll want to LICK it....
Just out from Roof Books:K. Silem MohammadThe FrontOrder through SPD.The critics rave:"...scraping the bottom of the ... barrel ... write it off as a big joke ... we are ... repulsed ...." --Kenneth Goldsmith"...typical boring stuff ... can't appreciate The Front ... equate ... with rape...." --Katie Degentesh"...monkeys chained to...
Boo! issue 1 is online. Four of my Sonnagrams are in it....
Read Write Poem
by Deb Scott This week uses words offered by Barbara, Nicole, Marian V., Mark S. and Rallentanda To write to this prompt, pick as many (or few) of these words as you want and write a poem using them. (And if these words don’t suit you, pick your own. Just write a poem,...
the (very) latest on our (virtual) tour of molly gaudry’s ‘anatomy for the artist’
Ren Powell has just posted her take on Molly Gaudry’s electronic chapbook, “Anatomy for the Artist.” Find the post at More Babel. And, in case you missed it, the first stop was Donna Vorreyer’s, at her blog. Next up was Catherine Fitchett at Poetry Chook and then Lawrence Gladeview...
by the Read Write Poem Staff Did Zachary Schomburg’s amazing prompt help you create something completely new this week? Was it inspiring, frightening, freeing or complicating? All of the above? None of the above? Along with your links (or your poem), you might want to say a little something about how the...
a new poem every day in april (requires reading, not writing)
“Beginning April 1, Poets.org sends one new poem to your inbox each day to celebrate National Poetry Month. The poems have been selected from new books published in the spring.” Sign up here....
by Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate, 2004-2006 Sometimes beginning writers tell me they get discouraged because it seems that everything has already been written about. But every experience, however commonplace, is unique to he or she who seizes it. There have undoubtedly been many poems about how dandelions pass from yellow...
and it keeps on coming: our (virtual) tour of molly gaudry’s ‘anatomy for the artist’
Lawrence Gladeview has posted his thoughts about Molly Gaudry’s electronic chapbook, “Anatomy for the Artist.” Find the post at Righteous Rightings. In case you missed it, the first stop was Donna Vorreyer’s, at her blog. Next was Catherine Fitchett at Poetry Chook. You can find information about the chapbook and ...
gravity and light
"That time of year thou mayst in me behold ..." By Maureen Duffy
Poets don't grow old gracefully:recall old lusts with Hardyor clamour like Yeats for new."How are you?" people ask them, meaning"Goodness, you're still alive.""Are you still writing?" signals"If so, you're quite forgotten.I haven't seen any reviews,"and "Aren't you going gently yetinto your good night?"Gower, his loins frozen by Venus,piped of a...
In Memory of W. B. Yeats by W. H. Auden
IHe disappeared in the dead of winter:The brooks were frozen, the airports almost deserted,And snow disfigured the public statues;The mercury sank in the mouth of the dying day.What instruments we have agree The day of his death was a dark cold day.Far from his illnessThe wolves ran on through the...
How to Teach Grammar by Chella Courington
How to Teach Grammar for denis johnsoni don’t care about their commasrarely can’t follow an essay with a run-on sentenceor is it run-away words colliding in white space f r a g m ...
Museum Pastel by Chella Courington
Girl, just look at those painted orchids. Green and yellow swimming together, spilling over the edge like rainbow sherbet Mama made in July and spooned into glass cups. They slipped from sticky hands, crashing on black & white linoleum.Just look at those petals fringed in lavender. Feather boa she tossed...
Feliz Navidad Feliz NavidadFeliz NavidadProspero Ano y Felicidad.Feliz NavidadFeliz NavidadFeliz NavidadProspero Ano y Felicidad.I wanna wish you a Merry ChristmasI wanna wish you a Merry ChristmasI wanna wish you a Merry ChristmasFrom the bottom of my heart....
She Gets What She Came For by Chella Courington
No matter what you do, I sing “Stairway to Heaven” without end. Amen. Sugar on my tongue, chameleon-long, you raise your cotton shirt, spitting sticky rain. Over the Dutch Elm, Chagall’s wedding couple link hands and catch us in their drift, or is it their draft? Our stretchy limbs angel...
The Blog of Lewd Enlightenment
8-word poem: THE OLIVER PRANCER TINKER STORY
Endless hoursOf loveAnd joy.That's Oliver!...
Just anotherSuffering bastardTrying toGet by....
8-word poem: THE UNABLE TO FIND TONY RANDALL'S GRAVE STORY
I thoughtThere'd beA white hankieFlying....
Just enough painTo make lifeSweetly unbearable....
8-word poem: THE WHAT IS THE GREATEST WORK OF ART OF THE 21ST CENTURY SO FAR? STORY
"The Thong Song"Or"Hey Ya!"You decide....
This is itThe mostOf the least....
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Jon Lord: New Album Samples Available
Audio samples of three songs from the LP — "As I Walked Out One Evening", "Evening Song" and "Turville Heath" — are available for streaming in the YouTube clip below....Link! ...
This exhibition includes works from throughout the last thirty years of Holzer’s career. It features LED signs, sculptures, and paintings, that embody Holzer’s thirteen text series (of Truisms and Inflammatory Essays), as well as poetry and writing by others, plus in her most recent work government documents to...
Jean Ferrat, who died yesterday at 79, was not known much beyond the French-speaking world -- unlike Jacques Brel or Georges Brassens. But he was a national institution, much loved by the 1960s and 70s generation for his beautiful songs -- and for his communist views....Link! ...
The Coffee Party Movement Faces Its First Challenge
In the Traditional News: Accidentally started by documentary filmmaker Annabel Park, the Coffee Party movement faces its first test today: newly-formed Coffee Party chapters are meeting all across the country. Formed out of frustration over what some call the extreme views of the Tea Party movement, and even racism, the...
Jnanpith Award Winner Vinda Karandikar Dead
Experimentation was a key feature of Karandikar's literary works, especially his poetry that catapulted him to the top echelons of the state literary circles. Jnanpith Award winner Vinda Karandikar dead ...Link! ...
Poet, activist, mother and professor Nikki Giovanni Visits Temple University on
Poetry News: On March 17, 2010, Main Campus Program Board , Temple University's Premiere Planning Organization, is hosting "TU Def Poets" featuring Babel, Temple's Poetry Collective and special guest, Nikki Giovanni on March 17, 2010.Link! ...
fait accompli
Stacy Doris and Katie Degentesh at the Bowery Poetry Club, Saturday March 13, 2010The "Segue Series", sponsored by the Segue Foundation which includes Roof Books, goes back to 1977 at the Ear Inn, making it just 33 years old. Can you believe that Nada Gordon and Gary Sullivan have been...
COMMON GROUND ART GALLERY in conjunction withRAMPIKE MagazineVery Proudly PresentT H E L A S T V I S P O : selections from the upcoming anthologyedited by Crag Hill and Nico Vassilakis(This selection compiled by Volker Nix)Opening reception: Saturday, March 13th, 2010, Windsor, OntarioExhibition runs until April 10th,...
Contradicta Aphorisms is now available from SPD* * * * *From Publisher's Weekly:All the Whiskey in Heaven: Selected Poems Charles Bernstein. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $26 (298p) ISBN 978-0-374-10344-6This gathering of 30 years worth...
ContradictaEvents are brief; thought is long.* * * Extremes partake of emptiness.* * *Keepaway performs in Brooklyn, Sunday February 19L magazineOur December 2009...
A Seventh Birthday Fait Accompli SynchronicityToday is fait accompli's seventh birthday! It is fascinating, and exciting to me, that copies of Contradicta, our Green Integer book of aphorisms by me and illustrations by Toni Simon, just arrived today. My goal from the beginning of this blog was to try to...
Contradicta If a picture is worth a thousand words, an insight is worth a trillion of them. * * * * Overcoming despair and indolence demands more than persistence; one must also understand...
Poetic Asides with Robert Lee Brewer
WD Poetic Form Challenge: Kyrielle
This will be the first WD Poetic Form Challenge. Since it's the first, it's also the most rushed. The deadline for this challenge is March 20, 2010. To read the general rules, click here. For the first poetic form challenge, I want poets to write a kyrielle. (Click here to read my initial post on...
WD Poetic Form Challenge: Rules
Breaking news! A new possible publishing opportunity has opened up in the Writer's Digest magazine. For around a year now, Poetic Asides has had a column in Writer's Digest, including a short Q&A with a poet, a prompt, and a poetic form. When space allows, the editors would like to include an example poem...
Some poems are easier to workshop than others. For instance, if you have a poem with mixed up tenses and a lot of abstraction, it's easy to say, "Figure out if you're in the present or past tense and get specific." But it's much more difficult to diagnose ways to improve a poem...
Okay, I'm starting to feel more and more excited about the upcoming April PAD Challenge (click here to read the guidelines for 2010). As some of you may know, I've been writing a poem each day of 2010, and it's been a fun process so far (and a couple poems have actually been published already)....
This week while talking poetry on Twitter using the #poettues hashtag (happens all day ever Tuesday on Twitter), I realized I write some of my best poems (and by best, I mean poems that end up published) while in places outside the norm for me, or in a normal place after I've traveled...
2010 April PAD Challenge: Guidelines
(UPDATED 3/7/2010) I may make updates to this post as we go along. If I do, I'll put a little "updated" message at the top of the post with the date. If you are looking for the 2009 April PAD Challenge results/wrap-up, click here. ***** This is the initial post for the 2010 April PAD (Poem-A-Day) Challenge,...
Chris Weige
American: The Bill Hicks Story (Official Trailer)
via youtube.com Posted via web from Reckon...
Zimoun: Sound Sculptures & Installations
Zimoun : Sound Sculptures & InstallationsCompilation Video V1.7 / Last update: March 2010 Zimoun’s sound sculptures and installations are graceful, mechanized works of playful poetry, their structural simplicity opens like an industrial bloom to reveal a complex and intricate series of relationships, an ongoing interplay between the «artificial» and the «organic». He...
This means the dancing did the trick
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L.A. shoegazers VOICEsVOICEs‘ new Origins EP has been garnering accolades from all over the musical landscape, and with lush production by Prefuse 73, it’s easy to understand why. The first single from the record, put out by Manimal Vinyl, is “Origins,” and the track’s accompanying video illuminates the duo against the backdrop of...
Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child
Trailer for the new documentary Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child. Directed by Tamra Davis, the documentary features never-before seen footage of the prolific artist painting, talking about his art, and existing in the two years prior to his death in 1988. The OST features music from Mike D and Ad Rock. Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant...
You are worth hundreds of sparrows
R.I.P. Poet and Sparklehorse Mark Linkous sea of teeth can you feel the wind of venus on your skin? can you taste the crush of a sunset’s dying blush? stars will always hand in summer’s bleeding veilscan you feel the rings of saturn on your finger? can you taste the ghosts who shed their creaking...
They Shoot Poets - Don't They?
This has got to Mean Something.... Right?
I made it onto the following list: "30 Awesome Poetry Blogs You Aren’t Reading Yet".Get this. I'm described as follows:"Nick is a lovable Canadian poet." I guess they haven't met me... yet. ;-)Sincerely,Your lovable Canadian Poet...
They mean well. Most of them are very erudite and articulate under normal circumstances. But, somehow, give them a picture of a Carebear or a kitten holding a heart (not on its sleeve) but in its paw and they start handing out Hallmark Card blingee thingees like condoms at an...
Poetry in Vitro: Volume 4; Number 3
Architecture of YouthComing soon to a poetry journal near you!...
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So it's that time of the year again..isn't it? It's a time for taking stock. It's a time for introspection. A time to reflect on the direction or misdirection that our life is taking. The fact that this is the first few days of a new decade only exacerbates the...
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Letras de Cactus ©2010 Poetry with a Mexican accent
FAST DREAMThe idea of you got me all worked upEven though I cruised on my bicycleI did not feel weary or tired Because I was readyTo love you as soon as I could touch youI remember one house But not the other oneThe one I entered was the one where...
I LOVE THE WAY YOU EAT THE AFTERNOONPreference arrives in different colorsSitting on public benchesOn loaned chairsOr brand new cars that will end upIn a junk yardThe many moments of our livePassed us by like city dovesFlying erratically out of the smogThe sun hits the eyeThe cameraThe soundThe heart inside...
the bestit is a perfectly good thingto become your confidantlearning your curves and trickslike school childrenwaiting to show-off at recesseating your schoolmate's food & confidencei feel bad too you know?but i just hope for the bestand wish goodness for everybodyeven as many die and many are born every single daybut...
slowlyslowly caminamospor las sábanas of your thoughts babyand it feels perfectamente bienaunque a veces nuestras piernas touch each otherpero i don´t careit is your touch que me gusta tantoi like your pensamientos babyporque se sienten como fine lineny tus besos son como de velvetme gusta atorarme en tus dreamsporque siento...
writing your poemi said i would write a poemof how much i miss youthe truth is you are with meand i am with youto miss you would be to miss myselfand i have myself under this sleeping bagwarm & cozy i have you if memories hurt is becausewe don't understand...
deporteel frío entracalefactor lo botacomo un balónnegociaciónla cama me veme invita a descansarverano esperoel radiote escucho llorarreclamos de amor escupescorriente alterna...
Carol Peters
[from Lorine Niedecker's Collected Works, University of California, 2002]So this was Iin my framedyoung aloofnessunsuspecting what I filledeager to remaina smooth blonde cooleffect of lightan undiffused good take, a girl who couldn’t bakeHow I wishI had someone to givethis pretty thing towho’d keep it — something of me would...
[from an interview with Robert Creeley in David Ossman's The Sullen Art: Interviews with Modern American Poets, Corinth, 1963]In the earlier poems . . . the emotional terms are very difficult. The poems come from a context that was difficult to live in, and so I wanted the line to...
[from Kedrick James's Poet, Pirate, Netbot, Vizpo]we acquire a new skill . . . obliteracy . . . the ability to make the apparent texts transparent to varying degrees. We disregard more assiduously than we attend . . . all information carries with it a catalytic energy, no matter how...
[from Lorine Niedecker's Collected Works, University of California, 2002]Will You Write Me a Christmas PoemWill I!The mad stimulus of Gay Gaunt Daymeet to put holly on a treeand trim green bellsand trim green bellsNow candles come to faces.Your are wrong to-dayyou are wrong to-day,my dear. My dear — One translucent...
[from Robert Creeley's The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley: 1945-1975], University of California, 2006]For FearFor fear I wantto make myself againunder the thumbof old love, old timesubservienceand pain, bentinto a nail that willnot come out.Why, love, does itmake such a differencenot to be heardin spite of selfor what we may...
[from Edward Dorn's Way More West, Penguin, 2007]Like a Message on SundaySitsthe forlorn plumberby the riverwith his daughter staring at the waterthen, at herhis daughter closely.Once World, he cameto our house to fix the stove and couldn't oh, we were arrogant and talkedabout him in the next room, doesn'ta man...
Blogsboro Poetry Club
something is wrong...technically
Error sign on the screen reminds me of the time this girl I was dating told me all her family were suicides...
Haiku on the Wall, originally uploaded by DRheins. ink on old white wall I pick a red pen, with felt paint this star for you ...
I observe you in an filtered light, bright it still shines, but only in the hues that you choose to let your unique spectrum penetrate... the rest of the poem A poetic meander upon encountering someone unexpected....
It's Limerick-Off time! Yes, after being derelict in the limerick prompt department, I've finally posted a new one. So please join me by writing a limerick using this first line: “An elderly fellow named James…” My own limerick using that line is here....
Collect your flashlights to set up camp in the dark. Put your gear on a cart at the pier to embark For a planet of ice run by bureaucrats where The president smiles and pulls out his hair. The radiator whispered I should leave but I declined. Furniture rearranged itself; sofa arms linked and...
After the roar of the party I step out into the cold silence breathe white steam before me a bull out of the barn Feel the solid crunch of leather boots on fresh flakes the crisp leaves breaking as each leg swings and sinks deep I survey my land and smile Something refreshing about being buried in snow...
Nina Alvarez
Poem of the Day: from Tamburlaine the Great
from “Tamburlaine the Great” (Part 1, Act V, 160-173) What is beauty, saith my sufferings, then? If all the pens that ever poets held Had fed the feelings of their masters’ thoughts And every sweetness that inspired their hearts, Their minds and muses on admired themes; If all the heavenly quintessence they still From their immortal flowers...
Writer Wins Twitter Cookies (Fittingly)
Update: Chris Wells (a writer, teacher, and IT professional living in central Ohio) won the NinaAlvarez.net 3′rd Birthday Twitter=Cookies Contest. Chris Wells is a member of our community and also happens to be a writer so I want to share his work with you. White Kitty is his debut novel. Gilad Elbom,...
The Dream of the Desert in the Book
I The book lies open in all the hallways in all the oases in all the dreams around every corner behind every sand dune in this dream too you have to add a line your place is between the already written & the unwritten, in the white empty space. In this dream Stalin smiled, & Heidegger too in this dream cockroaches scuttled from the book–but it had...
Follow Nina on Twitter = Cookies!
Hard to believe, but on MARCH 7 is the 3rd BIRTHDAY of NINAALVAREZ.NET! In honor of this special occasion, I am asking you to join me on twitter for the chance to win two-dozen cookies! After all, Cookies + Poetry = food for thought, right? Here are the winner’s three options, written in...
…with other NinaAlvarez.net readers? How about once a month? If so, which day is best for you? (To answer, fill out POLL in the sidebar!) Filed under: words ...
Nihilistic Poetry
This wide open sky an echoed moon on barely born hours my couch sitting watching half moon, half sky half azure half self – light advances neon on surfaces gilded by miracle this pure instant when no one is watching. modern poetry ...
I had to be prepared for anything, I knew well my predicament of being the embodiment of some rebellion without a cause, or possibly, a very vague one, I was set to play this role till the curtain of my life would set and finally be able to rest from such a demanding performance; nonetheless, I had to be...
Hoy vi el cielo vestirse en índigo nube y granizo simultáneamente sus murmullos entraron en mi como una espada hecha de existencia desangré en asombro inventando aleluyas para mi transparencia por la cual veía el contenido frágil con el que se llenan los días tiré mi escudo en rodillas me declaré perdedor cautivo de lo efímero. poesía siglo XXI ...
Everything you do begins with a silence you can traverse the distances that keep you away from the divine but you look back and the starting point is blurred I have been pilgrimage traveled far, but in relation to what? all is opinion the poet is a collector of fragments the pieces of modernity scattered mercilessly over the ruins of decay the theory emerges the broken data a human heart halfway down...
Evento pincel sobre la masa deforme del pensamiento entre la una y las dos robé una hora rosa, dos minutos y mi vida cae en impresionismo de resina pesada y negra, un minuto campo de guerra no doy basto termíname este poema, mis ojos ya son desmayos asfixiados en demasiado hoy. ...
My creator has abandoned me the hands that spun these verses are now caressing night axioms and mysticisms, the poet left me a poem sunken somewhere lost in the motions of the automatic world, I am the victim a spirit that occupies briefly whatever soul treads these words but, alas ultimately doomed to perish as your eyes approach my final sigh. nihilistic poetry ...
Freeing nerves
She's a Woman My love don't give me no presents. I know that she's no peasant, only ever has to give me love forever and forever. My love don't give me presents, turn me on when I get lonely. People tell me that she's only foolin', I know she isn't. She...
The songs are in your eyesI see them when you smileI've seen enough I'm not giving up on a miracle drug. Of science and the human heartthere is no limit,there is no failure here sweetheartjust when you quit...I am you and you are mineLove makes no sense of spaceand time...will disappearLove and...
He fights against all the terror in the world.A real Knight Thank you, thank you so much Thank you, thank you so much,you opened an eye that I never knew,was my only eye,you made me into a Knight that I never knewwas my birth-right,your love was so pure that I never knew...
"Whenever there is a decay of righteousness, O Bharata, and a rise of unrighteousness, then I manifest Myself in every age"- Srimad Bhagavad Geeta (4 :7) From the movie: A Knight's taleChaucer the Herald introduces to the crowds his master the Knight. Chaucer: You're good. You're very good. My lords, my ladies,...
A compilation of inspirational wordings I see it clearly that to help the world sustainably, one must start from one's own dear and near, one's own family, friends and acquaintances. Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the unfortunate. - Virgil One must really have suffered oneself to help others. - Mother Teresa My...
Sifar means "Containing nothing, it encircles everything. Without a beginning, without an end, it stretches from emptiness to infinity and back again." Imagining what it feels like to be called by others by the sound of "Sifar". Sifar means "Zero", an absolute zero. Well, what can I say, it's so much...