A Dyed Heart


This heart is flowing fluid
Filling the soul with
Redness of bravery
And rage;
Pinkness of romance
And lust;
Orangeness of warmth
And attention craver;
Yellowness of glory
And jealousy;
Greenness of tranquility
And envy;
Blueness of peace
And mourning;
Whiteness of singularity,
And fear;
Blackness of mystery
And death.
When the soul blinks,
A spectrum ray chutes down
On to the ocean of mind,
Illuminates whatโ€™s to solve.

Is your face dyed as your heart is dyed, Beloved?
And your words
Your footsteps
Your breaths
Touch?

Or, layers of curtains shade your true colours?

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Green Everywhere

Green everywhere accompanies traveler on the way to a gate.

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transiting for a while ๐Ÿ’• with green everywhere

Well Done

The wind flies dry leaves to where travelโ€™s light and memoryโ€™s full. Well doneโ€”

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big lunch before big laundry โ€” well done!
ready mussels
done!
roasting potato
on medium fire, donโ€™t add water
sautรฉ
(not so) fresh green mussels
carrot & celery
garlic & ginger
big basket of laundry after big lunch ๐Ÿ˜Š well done!

Greed

All have right to live, yet some by greedily eating up others. Sigh.

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the rose apple leaves in my front yard are helplessly eaten up by locusts
the tree is not as productive as before but the fruits are still sweet and freshโ€ฆ.
โ€ฆ.and so many flowers are coming out, ready to bloom

Broken

Whatโ€™s brokenโ€™s broken until connected again. Never be the sameโ€”

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one of my gorgeous ceramic plates was broken; now iโ€™m thinking of learning how to fix it

Floating So High

Keeping afloat, buoyant freely swaying playing the waves in the skyโ€”

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Coldplay never fails me

Library

Curated sources of knowledge is a vast deep ocean to dive in.

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A few from Topkapi Palace

construction inscription
dome inside
reading quarter
reading quarter

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’

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