Posts Tagged ‘jibran’
Lazarus And His Beloved
Posted by: Sohail Ahmed Shaikh on: June 10, 2009
THE CAST
Lazarus (Shown in red)
Mary, his sister (Shown in blue)
Martha, his sister (Shown in green)
The mother of Lazarus (Shown in purple)
Philip, a disciple (Shown in pink)
A Madman (Shown in orange)
Stage notes are shown in grey
Non spoken parts are in italics
THE SCENE
The garden outside of [...]
The New Frontier
Posted by: Sohail Ahmed Shaikh on: June 10, 2009
There are in the Middle East today two challenging ideas: old and new. The old ideas will vanish because they are weak and exhausted. There is in the Middle East an awakening that defies slumber. This awakening will conquer because the sun is its leader and the dawn is its army.
In the [...]
Sand and Foam
Posted by: Sohail Ahmed Shaikh on: May 9, 2009
I am forever walking upon these shores,
Betwixt the sand and the foam,
The high tide will erase my foot-prints,
And the wind will blow away the foam.
But the sea and the shore will remain
Forever.
Once I filled my hand with mist.
Then I opened it and lo, the mist was a worm.
And I closed and opened my hand again, [...]
Gibran Love Letters
Posted by: Sohail Ahmed Shaikh on: April 20, 2009
The professors in the academy say, “Do not make the model more beautiful than she is,” and my soul whispers, “O if you could only paint the model as beautiful as she really is.”
(Extract from one of Gibran’s letters dated 8th November 1908)
Each and every one of us, dear Mary, must have a [...]
Your Thought and Mine
Posted by: Sohail Ahmed Shaikh on: April 13, 2009
Your thought is a tree rooted deep in the soil of tradition and whose branches grow in the power of continuity. My thought is a cloud moving in the space. It turns into drops which, as they fall, form a brook that sings its way into the sea. Then it rises as [...]
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