Daily Prompt : Magnet

In response to one-word prompt : Magnet

I’m not too happy when the house flies come out of nowhere, when  I  fry fish. They act like a magnet circling around my frying pan.

When I was in Lahore, I smelled someone frying fish, I  followed the aroma and found a man frying fish by the side of a road. I saw the same kind of  house flies circling around him. I told him,  ‘I do not like the flies above you.’

He smiled and replied, ‘these are nothing, only a few, if you want to eat my fish fry you must ignore them.’

I realized if I want to eat fried fish, I’d have to pretend, there are no flies!

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365 Writing Prompt: Imperfections

Imperfections: in things, in people, in places add character to life. Tell us about an imperfection that you cherish.

When my daughter was in kindergarten, the teacher asked the little five year old girls and boys to draw a picture of her family.

My daughter drew a picture of everyone in the family including her aunt who was living with us at that time. When the teacher asked  who these people were, she proudly pointed out the people in the picture: “she said this is mommy Asgar, daddy Asgar, me, my baby sister and my auntie Asgar.”

Although it was not a perfect picture and I did not expect it to, this is one imperfection I cherish!

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Birth And Death by Tagore Translation by Ranu

Birth And Death            Rabindranath Tagore

It was only the other day I came to this world   I was an infant devoid of speech

I came like a foreigner to this earth

without any identity, I did not bring anything with me,

Rabindranath Tagore (Photo credit: Cea.)

only provision I had with me was sobbing.

Today   all the  love  I received from my fellow human beings

has managed to draw out all the songs I have in my heart,

On this earth O my creator you have taken very little space in my heart!

Instead you have fulfilled the wishes of the people with my songs.

Every day you assist me to present songs of rhythm and melody

still I offer you my worship  at the end of the prayer

I hope you will take me with love,

I am hopeful that you will remember when we part.

wherever you keep me on this earth your love will remain with me.

There will be brand new foreign residence  new people

they   will connect with  me with similar love. In the light of this love

I will appear in the world

and blossom in the new company. Attracted by love

all the mysterious glitter I have in me

will rise up in eternal juice,

they will come out running___  free from life

in the entire world of yours on the invitation of love

I will leave the perfume of new lives,

I will draw the shape of faces with new colours.

who wants to be in this blind  narrow hole of immortality

on this surface of the earth only in one form

to live!  In the new paths of death

I will  worship you in different worlds.