rani posted an article on Artisan of Words - Dec 4, 2011, 3:43 pm
Full of character,this stern  stone face gazes out in Strasbourg, France.
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rani posted an article on Artisan of Words - Oct 7, 2011, 1:15 pm
Bright turquoise for this depiction of street art on a wall in Evereux.
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rani posted an article on Artisan of Words - Aug 24, 2011, 6:01 pm
On Losing Walking on the edge, walking, walking on the edge It could have been now or never; now or forever. On losing, or letting loose consequences Often life's bitter sequences; And then dawn would come. Hope beckoned as alone Hiding in an alcove dark and aloof Rain splattering on the roof Words...
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rani posted an article on Artisan of Words - Aug 3, 2011, 1:11 pm
Moonlight There is a stillness in the night that, softly Unfreezes the most frozen of hearts; There is a glow about moonlight Which can touch your face And set it a-glow: like candlelight it lights And highlights even the most humble place. There is the sun in everyone But the moon, like a loom Work...
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rani posted an article on Artisan of Words - Jun 29, 2011, 1:10 pm
Interesting woman's face carved in wood, decorating a building at Vannes in France.
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rani posted an article on Artisan of Words - Jun 12, 2011, 4:43 pm
This Burdened Heart This burdened heart speaks low but clear That today destiny’s lanes are not very clear; That pain, like rain, can mist up the eyes That clouds, like pain can block out the skies That somewhere else my heart wants to go There are dreams and all I had to forego Burdening my hear...
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rani posted an article on Artisan of Words - Jun 1, 2011, 1:07 pm
GRIEF Grief, don't stand near my bed tonight I've had enough and more than I can bear Last night was the worst: I could feel you Watching me whilst silently standing there. Now tell me, grief, are you friend or foe? What is it about me that attracts you so? Is it for my beauty, my wit or my fragilit...
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rani posted an article on Artisan of Words - Apr 11, 2011, 10:39 am
Stylised end of gutterpipe in Dinan, France.
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rani posted an article on Artisan of Words - Apr 5, 2011, 3:39 am
When Miracles Come When miracles come, pouring into my outstretched palms Like gold coins long buried in the earth; Like manna from heaven Miracles will come and then I will become Another person; transformation and affirmation Written into sacred chants and texts; there are Life-changing situations...
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rani posted an article on Artisan of Words - Apr 4, 2011, 4:38 pm
When Miracles Come When miracles come, pouring into my outstretched palms Like gold coins long buried in the earth; Like manna from heaven Miracles will come and then I will become Another person; transformation and affirmation Written into sacred chants and texts; there are Life-changing situatio...
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rani posted an article on Artisan of Words - Mar 28, 2011, 7:02 am
Cat composed of seashells on wall  in picturesque area of Sables d'olonne, France.
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rani posted an article on Artisan of Words - Mar 2, 2011, 8:42 am
IF I CLOSE MY EYES If I close my eyes, I can see you standing there If I open them, you're gone. Ah, mystery of imagination The cold, waking dawn; The heart that waits, That fitfully longs, sighs, flutters In varied emotional states. Now that I know that it works that way Let me close my eyes: let m...
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rani posted an article on Artisan of Words - Feb 4, 2011, 5:48 pm
If I Should See You Again If I should see you again Across some busy Parisian street If I should see your face as I've longed to For years, for so many years Will I just stand there stupidly My face wet with tears? But wait, there's more to come. I'll probably just stand and watch You walking sw...
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rani posted an article on Artisan of Words - Jan 19, 2011, 5:44 pm
If You Have To Leave, Go Swiftly If you have to leave go, go swiftly before I can summon My voice to call you back; go swiftly before I can raise my hand To stop you, to try to hold you back, to touch you To reason with you and try to make you understand. If you have to leave, ignore this stifling h...
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rani posted an article on Artisan of Words - Jan 16, 2011, 11:37 am
Pretend, Just Pretend As I write these lines, simple words that Tear at my heart; pour from my heart As they say what I cannot say: as they speak The unimaginable, the words I left aside For another day Pretend, just pretend that I am, That I am the one you love Here before you, here at last Wai...
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rani posted an article on Artisan of Words - Dec 29, 2010, 5:26 pm
SOMETIMES WHEN I FORGET Sometimes when I forget Where I am, where I will be tomorrow Blessed memory can take me on it's wings far, far away. When the pain gets too much Pass my finger across the strings The wooden body hums, the wooden body needs that much. The flesh is weak but the mind, Permits s...
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rani posted an article on Artisan of Words - Dec 27, 2010, 5:01 pm
 Cry Now, Relentless Fire Ease the pain, now, coursing, Furious, raging fire Someone whom, just by silent touch Can say so much There were rivers of embers Coursing in my veins; cry now, Divine, relentless  fire Sleep will come with the dawn Immemorable fire, but no, not desire For this life or...
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rani posted an article on Artisan of Words - Nov 27, 2010, 5:43 pm
SPIRES THAT TOUCH THE SKY Spires that touch the sky; the city and I. Cities that dream near water's shore. Watching people as they run for more. The utter solitude of a single mind As it struggles to grasp and rewind To make sense of reason and season. Ah! but in the stone of the spires Lie more tha...
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rani posted an article on Artisan of Words - Nov 18, 2010, 1:05 pm
SECRETS, MURMURED WHEN ALONE .When alone, and matters come to mind Secrets that I alone could understand Secrets placed somewhere to the left centreOf my soul, beating softly, beating like a drum .Tapping out words I thought I could forgetSo I whisper them to the sky .And thus to  the branches of ...
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rani posted an article on Artisan of Words - Nov 15, 2010, 6:09 am
What! A feather almost as big as me!
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rani posted an article on Artisan of Words - Oct 25, 2010, 10:25 am
One Day A Cloud Will Find Me One day a cloud will find me, high,high up in the sky Warmed by sun's warm flame; or even sweep down In draping, billowing wonder; all that I will see Is misty melancholy delight Yes, misty melancholy delight: to be one with the sky The moon, the sun. To feel the touch o...
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rani posted an article on Artisan of Words - Oct 4, 2010, 8:43 am
The shadow of this tree with it's well-defined leaves on an old, cracked wall leave an impression of sun and shade that is impressionable.
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rani posted an article on Artisan of Words - Sep 21, 2010, 8:51 am
EXISTENCE, BRIEF AND FLICKERING Existence, brief and flickering,  almost done Almost similar to many lives, but not quite Almost done, and then undone; as random As oceanwaves, that subject to the currents And to the moon's powerful love; Yes, to the laws above. . Life moves on, second after secon...
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rani posted an article on Artisan of Words - Sep 5, 2010, 11:42 am
UNTIL THE END OF MORTALITY I will tread on meandering paths, often weary; I will stop and gaze at the sun as it rises. I will watch a tree's leaves rustle in the breeze Rest my body, so tired, when I please I will wander in that old city's lanes Pass crumbling mansions , craftsmen at work; I will re...
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rani posted an article on Artisan of Words - Jul 28, 2010, 5:00 am
Clouds That Come And Go Clouds that come and go Untold divine missions do They carry out, without pause or falter They our fates can certainly alter. Clouds that gather up above Do they ever wonder? What do scurrying mortals matter? When the heavens shatter? Now and then clouds do go Far above to...
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rani posted an article on Artisan of Words - Jul 8, 2010, 5:53 pm
The Eiffel Tower, the French flag and a lamppost in Paris, France.
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rani posted an article on Artisan of Words - Jun 23, 2010, 9:55 am
BLURRED Nothing is impossible: everything is possible. Affirmation and confirmation, conforming to The positive attitude as signified in books. But then why is this world blurred, why do drops sting my cheeks? I saw…I saw a bird plummeting down from the sky I saw a child with scars, an old man cr...
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rani posted an article on Artisan of Words - Jun 10, 2010, 1:32 pm
This Parisian landmark includes both the Army Museum and Napolean's tomb.
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rani posted an article on Artisan of Words - Jun 10, 2010, 1:07 pm
Every Woman Everywhere If only every woman at the well Could have her pitcher filled; her needs fulfilled The right to follow her own dream If only could every woman who cried Hot tears of guilt, submission or pain Could be met with compassion Fears of work in wild cities, Fears, fears, tears. W...
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rani posted an article on Artisan of Words - Jun 10, 2010, 12:07 pm
Every Woman Everywhere If only every woman at the well Could have her pitcher filled; her needs fulfilled The right to follow her own dream If only could every woman who cried Hot tears of guilt, submission or pain Could be met with compassion Fears of work in wild cities, Fears, fears, tears. Wher...
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rani posted an article on Artisan of Words - Jun 1, 2010, 5:32 pm
At Sunset, Today At sunset, today when the sky turns red When clouds, try to veil the sky; when birds nest And are too tired to fly When workers, tired, straggle back home And school has closed for the day And in houses the curtains are drawn When lights spring into life And the spirit, tranquil, re...
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rani posted an article on Artisan of Words - May 7, 2010, 4:01 pm
I Left My Heart Somewhere I left my heart somwhere. I searched for it night, and day. I waited for the Unknown. Just to take me far, far away. There were moments of intense solitude. Where, where did my heart stray? I left my soul somewhere. On dusty tracks it did stray. I looked for it everywhere....
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rani posted an article on Artisan of Words - Apr 16, 2010, 7:00 am
FRAGILE HEARTS Fragile hearts, hearts that break Do not harsh words and ruptures take Fragile hearts that trust and beat Trodden under uncaring feet Hearts, like roses in the rain, Scatter under the onslaught of pain. Copyright: Rani Turton
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rani posted an article on Artisan of Words - Mar 26, 2010, 11:21 am
THERE IS THE SKY,  THERE IS THE RIVER There is the sky, there is the river The taker, and the giver There is the sand, there are the stones All that constitutes our bones There are the stars and the trees The soul has eyes that sees The body thus thinks and acts But then, whose is this mind that r...
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rani posted an article on Artisan of Words - Feb 12, 2010, 8:57 am
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rani posted an article on Artisan of Words - Feb 12, 2010, 8:57 am
THIS EMPTINESS WITHIN This emptiness within, an utter stillness that could, Would, should remain transfixed by eternity Not a sunyatian stillness not the perfect void A void, no, rather devoid Not a perfect vacumn not even the space To fill up a space that Silences and stillness from analysis Sprin...
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rani posted an article on Artisan of Words - Feb 3, 2010, 4:41 pm
Anchor Wherever you may rove, my thoughts, my brimming heart Tries to keep pace with you: for so it is; The journey has been so long, so fraught with worry I  am numb and my eyes blurry. There is a port perhaps where you can at times Anchor; there is an inn or a home where you may At times wont toÂ...
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rani posted an article on Artisan of Words - Feb 3, 2010, 4:41 pm
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rani posted an article on Artisan of Words - Feb 3, 2010, 3:54 pm
Seen at an automobile show in a suburb of Paris, this dream car.
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rani posted an article on Artisan of Words - Feb 3, 2010, 3:54 pm
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rani posted an article on Artisan of Words - Jan 7, 2010, 1:26 pm
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rani posted an article on Artisan of Words - Jan 7, 2010, 1:26 pm
THIS MOMENT CAPTIVE I can call you my beloved Softly under my breath: Only my own ears will hear; I can look on you as my very own Until the hour of my death. You are here and now, this moment captive In the cupped warmth of my hands You can speak to me if you must I won't run for I'll be a prison...
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rani posted an article on Artisan of Words - Dec 27, 2009, 4:51 pm
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rani posted an article on Artisan of Words - Dec 27, 2009, 4:51 pm
The Psychology Of The Unsaid Thoughts, untranslated, remained unsaid. Was it because expression or emotion was dead? Or was it really that all courage had fled? Education has not the answer On thoughts that remain unsaid; Or the psychology of the unsaid world Could probably change the world. The...
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rani posted an article on Artisan of Words - Dec 21, 2009, 2:49 pm
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rani posted an article on Artisan of Words - Dec 13, 2009, 3:35 pm
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rani posted an article on Artisan of Words - Dec 13, 2009, 3:35 pm
There is a kind of ladder or steps that have been integrated into the design.
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rani posted an article on Artisan of Words - Dec 1, 2009, 1:10 pm
Leaves, How They Do Fall Leaves, how they do fall Do they happen to wonder at all Why the earth happens to turn And them, with seasons spurned. When they fall onto the earth Carpetting the ground with their mirth Do they think of the spring And the life that it will finally bring? That the cycle of ...
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rani posted an article on Artisan of Words - Dec 1, 2009, 1:10 pm
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