Osama and Obama
On a bookstore shelf
Seen in India
Picture taken in a bookshop in Bangalore (Bengaluru)
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Beneath a roof
Beneath this roof
Indian patriots conspir’d
To end an empire
The picture shows the roof of a house in London’s Highgate district where, between 1905 and 1910, Indian patriots (including Shyamji Krishnavarma, VD Savarkar, Madanlal Dhingra, and VVS Aiyar) plotted the downfall of the British Empire in India. You cand discover much meore about this fascinating, but relatively unknown episode in the history of India’s struggle for independence in the book “IDEAS, BOMBS, and BULLETS” by Adam Yamey.
The book is available here:
https://www.bookdepository.com/IDEAS-BOMBS-BULLETS-Adam-YAMEY/9780244203870
and at a special low price in India here:
https://pothi.com/pothi/book/adam-yamey-ideas-bombs-and-bullets
and on Kindle
Squeaky clean
A cloud of spray
A dirty automobile
Soon will be squeaky clean
Dress code
There are times
When a bow-tie is de rigueur
But I hate wearing it
de rigueur, meaning ‘ required by etiquette or current fashion’, despite its many vowels is pronounced ‘de rig-err’
Leaping fox
The observant eye
Spots the leaping brown fox
While walking in the park
This fox was seen next to the Serpentine lake in Kensington Gardens, London
Traditional Albanian shoes
Centuries unchang’d
Hide with toes upward curl’d
Albanian footwear
Theatrical haiku
People enter keenly
The auditorium fills
Let the show begin
Auditorium of the Bridge Theatre, London
A heron by the water
You can never tell
What you might chance to see
When walking in the park
A heron in London’s Regents Park
Haiku on the grill
Enjoyable and healthy,
Highly satisfactory:
Grill’d veg, of course
Eight legs and a haiku
Eight spindly legs
But oft it inspires fear and angst:
The helpful spider
Now, here is a saying from Madagascar:
“Words are like the spider’s web: a shelter for the clever ones and a trap for the not-so-clever.”
Source: https://bijlmakers.com/spiders/spider-proverbs-and-quotes/
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