Agha Shahid Ali @AghaShaahidAli
To open the archives through the memories and hearsay of Late Agha Shahid Ali, an American, Kashmiri poet. Write to me Amherst, Massachusetts Joined August 2012-
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They refuse to burn when we set fire to the flesh- those flowers float down the Ganges as adamant bones.
"Alone in His cave ~ His dance done ~ He's smeared with ash. The Ganges flows from the head of Shiv forever." ~Agha Shahid Ali Drawing made by my 8 year old nephew Avaan. #MahaShivaratri
In the summer of 1999, Agha Shahid Ali wrote 7 couplets for @MasoodMasood121. 13 years later, Hussain turned them into paintings. In doing so, he kept his late friend's last wish. Happy birthday to the best, @AghaShaahidAli
In the summer of 1999, Agha Shahid Ali wrote 7 couplets for @MasoodMasood121. 13 years later, Hussain turned them into paintings. In doing so, he kept his late friend's last wish. Happy birthday to the best, @AghaShaahidAli
... Wake up. Raise yourself from this bed your body so sensuously haunts and stamp the rim of this cup with the seal of your lips, a sweet, sweet message to someone, to anyone. " #TheRebelSilhoette #Faiz Tr by @AghaShaahidAli
It snows, as i write this ! Remembering @AghaShaahidAli on his birth anniversary ❤️
The moon did not become the sun. It just fell on the desert in great sheets, reams of silver handmade by you. The night is your cottage industry now, the day is your brisk emporium. The world is full of paper. Write to me. #HappyBirthdayShahid
You were kind, reciting poetry in a drunk tongue. I thought: At last! Now I loiter in and out of your memory. Speaking to you wherever I go. #HappyBirthdayShahid.
Ahead is a year of brilliant water.. there's nothing in this world but hope. #HappyNewYear2024
"Why must the bars turn neon now when, Love, I’m already drunk in your capitalist land?" ~Agha Shahid Ali
Today we mourn the loss of Agha Shahid Ali, a renowned Kashmiri-American poet, and an eminent figure in the discourse on Kashmiri literature. Agha Shahid Ali, a poet of exile, straddled two worlds: Kashmir, his homeland, and America, his adopted land.
How dare the moon-- shine so hauntingly out here ... Why has it not perished? How dare it shine on an earth from which you have vanished? #Remembering #AghaShahidAli @AghaShaahidAli #DeathAnniversary
After the Poetry Reading by Agha Shahid Ali in Florida — a poem to mark his 22nd death anniversary 3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2…
Agha Shahid Ali, whom we lost OTD in 2001
Remembering Agha Shahid Ali !
Agha Shahid Ali (1949-2001) Remembering him on his death anniversary. His words, infused with profound wisdom & beauty, continue to resonate across cultures & generations. May your soul rest in eternal peace. #AghaShahidAli Video courtesy Hamilton College archives USA
She is still somehow holding the world together: She is naming the roses.
"At a certain point I lost track of you. You needed me. You needed to perfect me. In your absence you polished me into the Enemy. Your history gets in the way of my memory." -Farewell, Agha Shahid Ali #DeathAnniversary @AghaShaahidAli
I will die, in autumn, in Kashmir. and the shadowed routine of each vein will almost be news, the blood censored, for the Saffron Sun and the Times of Rain....
Nothing will remain. Everything's finished. I see his voice again: This is a shrine of words. You'll find your letters to me. And mine to you. Come ... and tear open these vanished envelopes.... #Deathanniversary #Remembrance
In this mosiac-world of silent graveyards the difference lies between death and dying.
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I thought poetry could change everything, could change history and could humanize, and I think that the illusion is very necessary to push poets to be involved and to believe. But now I think that poetry changes only the poet. —Mahmoud Darwish
Happy birthday माँ Love you. ❤️
जयपुर से लौटते वक्त कल दौसा के पास स्थित चांद बाओली देखी और हर्षद माता मंदिर में माता के दर्शन किए। हर्षद माता अर्थात उल्लास की देवी। ऐसी मान्यता है कि देवी हमेशा हँसमुख प्रतीत होती है और भक्तों को खुश रहने का आशीर्वाद प्रदान करती है। आपको और आपके परिवार को चैत नवरात्रि के…
Good Morning 🌻 Another year at the writing residency comes to a closure. A good writing workshop inspires one to read more and write a little. Looking forward to both, once home. To mornings like these, another year, another time.
A desert rose in Yemen. In the background the Arabic sea.
To Agha Shahid Ali kashmirpulse.com/literature/poe… via @TheKashmirPulse @AghaShaahidAli
Mary Ruefle's exquisite erasure poem:
Herath mubarak / Herath poshte / Mahāshivarātri ki shubh kāmanāyen 🙏🏻
"Alone in His cave ~ His dance done ~ He's smeared with ash. The Ganges flows from the head of Shiv forever." ~Agha Shahid Ali Drawing made by my 8 year old nephew Avaan. #MahaShivaratri
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Today's Poetry Thread: OPTIMISM "For every bird there is a stone thrown at a bird." Feel free to add poems.
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