Those Love Around

You donโ€™t need so much love to find love around. Make it with a little love.

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playing buddies
mama dog ๐Ÿ’•
cool
like a log
slurp!
can you spot 2 cats?
one guarding a headless god
strolling
my Bob looks like this one ๐Ÿ’—
brrr!
tux cat on carpet
ginger waiting for lunch

Bird Eye View

Fly. See land from above. Wide, broad, one whole. Bird eye, one gift from heavenโ€”

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bird eye view

Journey

A journey starts. A journey ends. A route is colourful when observedโ€”

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up!
up!
up!
up!
downโ€ฆ.
ready to land!

A Loving Visit

A loving visit beyond time and space. Salaam. Universe answers.

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about the museum
beloved
beloved
beloved
when youโ€™re loved, people still visit you even when youโ€™re nowhere ๐Ÿ’
when youโ€™re loved, youโ€™re taken care of even when youโ€™re nowhere
beloved – visiting him with love, see you again
beloved – visiting him with love, see you again

Written

Written on this soul, your footsteps making sweet songs sung by the green birds.

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a calligraphy about โ€˜Izzah (honour, dignity, respect) in Ulucami Grand Mosque, Bursa
standing firm with a blessed smile
a short visit is ok ๐Ÿ˜ฏ
and then riding cable car to Uludag Mountain

Travel

Travel light is fun,
With so little to carry.
Prancing deer,
Safe in the forest,
No tiger,
No bear,
Just green and breeze.

Travel full is peace,
With all so prepared.
Walking elephant,
Graceful in the desert,
No hyena,
No lion,
Just sun and breeze.

Letโ€™s travel
With light heart,
Flying eagle,
Free in the high,
No storm,
No lightning,
Just blue and breeze.

Letโ€™s travel
With full heart,
Humming alpaca,
Peaceful in the hill,
No distress,
No agitation,
Just earth and breeze.

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distracted between travel light and travel full ๐Ÿฅธ
decided with travel full ๐Ÿ˜Ž so full!

Your Eyes

Your eyes, Beloved
Drown me to a depth of soul
Where you hide nowhere.

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are your eyes still the same? ๐Ÿ˜ sometimes you need to change your profile picture to show how your eyes wise up ๐Ÿ˜

CNY Is An Inch Away

Another new year with another long weekend. Added holidayโ€”

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most of us will take a leave to have a longer break esp combined with CNY holiday โ€” iโ€™ve gotta start packing ๐Ÿ˜ Happy (another) New Year! dream come true!
seeing solanum in a flower arrangement is rare blessings
2023 is my year; major dreams come true! ๐Ÿ’

It Does Well

It sways flexibly
In stormy days.
It grows calmly
In sunny days.
It roots perennially
In the meadow.

It sings;
It hums;
It mutes;
It sees;
It hears;
It touches;
It tastes;
It smells;
In silence
Perfectly.

It does well.

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these flowers survive the storm and continue living in bright days on and on and on between those two situations only through a friendship with the meadow ๐Ÿ’

Charlie Chaplin to Us

Laughter is the breeze caressing the hair waving to the morning sun.

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A posting landed on my Instagramโ€™s Home, it was Charlie Chaplinโ€™s small details that are meaningful to me who love to laugh but often fail to make jokes. Most of my jokes are garing (crispy-dry, not funny; Bahasa Indonesia slang). ๐Ÿ˜

Salaam.

Sweet Day

Any day can be sweet with some setting on the tongue. Avoid chilli.

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was craving for sugar at around 3pm in the office, about to have thisโ€ฆ. no no no
this? no no no
decided! chocolate brioche โ€” chocolate never fails me!

Pink Roses

Pink roses in a vase welcome seven cold guests, turning them to smiles.

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an innocent staff put these roses in a vase to welcome us; she said the roses were grown in the dorm garden, which we found true; what a sweet gesture ๐Ÿ’ (Nagano, 2014) โ€” we should have smiled more widely to her ๐Ÿ˜ see you again this year

Love Birds Tweet

Silence sits among storm, wonโ€™t sit in a temple. Sheโ€™s been far away happy, leaving two love birds tweeting noisily.

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Some people donโ€™t want happy ending for everyone but themselves and wonโ€™t stop communicating their hostility in any other way even when they know they have won the game. Oh! Perhaps they never know what victory is, they misunderstand it with justification.

Salaamโ€ฆ

is it the note, the clef or the heart shape or the space the illustrator wants to emphasise? many will (mis)interpret based on their own experience or even assumption, exactly like a literature which is interpreted differently and the literary person smiles wide as she knows the more interpretations are awarded to a poem, the more successful the poet is โ€” ๐Ÿ˜˜๐Ÿ˜Ž

Ode to Day

Dear, day.
Do you know that I never stop waiting for you?
When my watch ticks a second,
My heart drips a note,
My pulse vibrates softly,
I know I am closer to you.

Dear, day.
Do you know that every part of you blesses me?
When morning breaks,
Noon flares,
Dusk fades to night,
I know the next you is waiting
For me.

Day oh day
Many I canโ€™t understand,
Much I canโ€™t decipher,
Little I can see,
Very few I can give
Yet I still hope
To meet you again.

Dear, day.
How I am blessed with family,
Gifted with friends,
Sufficed with this self,
You are still the one
Sung by this heart.
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
All have been today
And never faded away.

I am blessed, day
With another you
In the best way.

And for you
I am grateful.

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as dark as serene night
as shadowy as calm dusk
as bright as each and every morning
she is well protected under the shade of glorious sunflowers ๐Ÿ’
dear sunflower ๐Ÿ’•
and the white drops of details
when all glass vases are prioritised for orchid roots, fondue pot be todayโ€™s best choice ๐Ÿ’
all must be got rid of in order for the flower arrangement to get a spacious and โ€œcleanโ€ background โ€” there is always thing to prioritise; if it is not you, donโ€™t feel bad โ€” itโ€™s just like that everyday so just be blessed with becoming either 0 or 1 in this binary world ๐Ÿ’•

Love Diaries in A Library

This life is a library
Keeping all collections,
Reference to public,
Exclusive to a lover,
One lover.
The
Belovedโ€”

Read,
Beloved
Any scrolls
In this library.

Read,
Lover
The diaries
In the secret dungeon.

Read,
Beloved
With naked eyes, or
With any glasses on the shelves.

Read,
Lover
Through letters and numbers,
Shapes and colours.

Read,
Beloved
This library is open
As long as you are awake.

Read,
Lover
Before you sleep
When Iโ€™ll be reading you through.

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my earlier diaries are true stories through naked eyes; the later are colours, shapes, numbers, words in various styles and figures of speech needing some tricks and tips to sense layers of meanings and information โ€” we are all writers, librarians and readers ๐Ÿ’

About the photo

Free Will

Free will? What is that? This breath is what you blow in to me to love you.

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Realising more and more that her life is free of free will; she needs causes and reasons to do anything she does even for her brain to think about what things to think ofโ€” there is a bond invisible and invincible.

She surrenders to the bond. ๐Ÿ’

Happy weekend.

Salaam.

two new buds not coming out of free will ๐Ÿฅฐ there are reasons, there are causes

Corner

In a bright corner sheโ€™s seen. The sun sends her light reflecting bright life.

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this is more than enough to put me in a good mood after a long trip; she delivers a stem of buds after moved to a corner where sun greets her directly โ€” thank you!

Taste

How many tastes can she experience in joy? 5 or 7?

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Realising that the best taste is not any of those 5 or 7; the best taste is only 1: to love. ๐Ÿ˜Š

Days of love be likeโ€ฆ

well done beef
sate kambing (lamb skewer)
ayam geprek (smashed chicken)
nasi rames (combined dish riced)
gado-gado (vegetables in peanut sauce)
lumpia sayur (vegetable spring rolls)
pisang goreng (fried banana)
the baked and cherry
the baked and blueberry
mango ๐Ÿ’ and pumpkin seeds

Friday

Friday, this bright light blinks to the eyes not stopping staring at the heart.

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Masjid Istiqlal โ€” after more than 10 years
shollu โ€˜alannabiy ๐Ÿ’
waiting for a friend who said โ€œletโ€™s meet up in Istiqlal Mosque, Thursday night welcoming Friday would be a good night to pray for beautiful 2023โ€ ๐Ÿ’

Dancing Dolls

Dolls dance following the rhythm of the carverโ€™s breath. Standing ovationโ€”

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dancing dolls, how attractive you are! i enjoy watching your unmoved movements then applaud as thatโ€™s what you are made for ๐ŸŽŽ

Lazed

Is it lazed or slowed? The day seems long without you around the pink sky.

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indomie is the best in lazy day ๐Ÿ˜

doesnโ€™t look amazing but tastes like soul! ๐Ÿฅฐ

Welcome

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Welcomed by a home with greenery to be cooked, she builds a sweet mood.
fridge gave me a surprise to make lunch – thanks for the left over of vegetables and beef ๐Ÿ˜

Home Missed

Thereโ€™s home thatโ€™s missed lingering around the heart. Let it in with joy.

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slightly boring, yes โ€” back home is the happiest ๐Ÿ’ i miss the kitchen, the orchids, the bikes, the books, the canvas, the paper and all that I can do in that tiny space
oooh and time to bring my luggage to its repair center ๐Ÿ˜˜

Reflector

Reflection kills her night.
The tower dramatically sways,
Dancing with the street light,
Gleaming with the moonbeam.

She grabs a cloth
To wipe her mirror.

Oye, her little heart.
You need a janitor.

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one Petronas tower reflected perfectly through a skyscraperโ€™s glass in a dim evening ๐Ÿชž dramatic yet poetic and romantic ๐Ÿ˜Ž