MY AFRICAN QUEEN: She rose so gracefully like a scudding smoke. Drew a long refreshing breath....

MY AFRICAN QUEEN: She rose so gracefully like a scudding smoke. Drew a long refreshing breath....
and she drove her waist, and flew the tassels of her queenly apparel. The silent music mussed on! Her dainty dazzling hairs caressing her hip. Bare-footed, her virgin beautiful feet tip-toed to the unheard sweet songs. Her fingers like that of eagle’s wings, high on the naked tune’s wave and breath. Then she danced like the wind o'er the serene sea of my Africa, my Mother!

Friday, July 10, 2009

Michael Jackson vs. Classificatory Anomaly: A Tribute


I do not see Michael as a Traitor, I rather see him as a Teacher, a didaché of historical significance. He is the ‘white board’ on which this lesson on the needs of self-awareness, self-acceptance and contentment are written on the globe. Yet I see in him a grand march of the Übermench; an extreme fullness of the drive of men, and depreciation of forcible attainment of desires. I opine he is the first living saint of the world. The world hailed him, worshipped him and drove him to this precipice. Why do you then, oh world turn your back whereof you shot him to the skies and shut out the lights? Hence, I see in him the contrast of a humble life, of being a living cat at home, than a dead lion in the woods. Above all, his voice still makes me "Speechless” on the gospels he has preached. His “We Are the World” and the rest of its synoptic could “Heal the World” and “Make it a better place….” If harkenedto. Thus, in this Classificatory Anomaly, “Black is in” in which Michael is out; I count him in as an obelisk of greatness to the pattern of the world. Then, I learn from him that the glories of earth are no less than lilies in the morning. However, if he did only ‘colour’ his skin in a world of many ‘coloured’ hearts and souls, it might be less a miracle to see him by Angel Michael in heaven at the last day. Shalom Michael!

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