It is the lamplight or perhaps the moon,
causing shadows to glide through the light
and make me look up every
now and then, only to see it is the passing clouds.
But it was the sun and your continued absense
pushing through blinds, and thrown across the passive sky,
and this empty room
that made me realize you’d never return.

And it seems I’ve gathered an audience,
they line the street like white bouquets,
whipsering leaves and birds in a noisy chatter,
all in a stance, awaiting your grand return.
Every year the same scene is replayed, while
the sun dips in and out of a bannered horizon.

But it was by candlelight
that I Strung ribbon to the alter
and saw flashes of me;
Host in hands, draped
rosary; stained glass only
allotted a group of rays
that almost vanished upon approach;
faith was supposed to light
the rest of the way.
The sign of the cross
beneath flowery veil;
his ring, his rose, his love.
Faith kindled on bridal glow,
But a timid mind
was an open window.

If I could only shake off the years
and go back to a day when I wholeheartedly believed,
and forget what I’ve learned…

But there’s little time
while struggling for ends meat,
to fulfill a dream,
witness a miracle,
watch him walk through
the door with the sun in his hands;
dear father

His faithful lantern,
hung gracefully
through the expanse
of time and space,
lighting so many corners,
so many days.

And colors have begun to fade.
Prayers were packed and stowed away.

If I could shed the years,
I might as well;
because I’m still here
behind this glass;
dappled, filmy,
My church;
all along propped this cobwebbed pane,
examining the sky,
the passers by,
and all too often, the falling ribbons of rain;
Waiting; as each passing headlight
grazes the walls of this room-
as each car door opens, closes,
it might be you.

very good, I like it(:
did you write it? if so good job

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/Modi-promises-Buddhist-temple–religion-study-centre-in-state/567974

Gujarat, Himachal govts for joint promotion of Buddhism.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/vadodara/Gujarat-Himachal-govts-for-joint-promotion-of-Buddhism/articleshow/5457998.cms

The very promise because of that BJP exists on the horizon of Indian politics never got fulfilled and new promises are being made. The PM in waiting to PM in retirement, and now this PM in waiting to don’t know what LoL

Are these governments and Chief Ministers following Indian constitution? What if any Congress Chief Minister would have announced to build a Church or Mosque? Wouldn’t these radical extremists belonging to the RSS, Bajarang Dal, VHP, BJP have come on roads and created rampage and riots on the streets? Are state governments in the business of promoting religions? Are we soon going to have some religious person as supreme leaders like "Ali Khamenei" of Iran in BJP run states? Anyways, the love of BJP supporters for Iran is not hidden on this site. How can state governments promote religions and build temples>

And to my bff on YA, this is no Modi Mania

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Edit: I am ignoring all irrelevant comments. I comments like how much Modi earns from his shows & uses in charity similar to Rakhi Sawant & other Bollywood stars are not relevant to my question, so ignored, questions like Robert Gates’s intelligence reports not relevant to my que so ignored. And many more comments ignored.

Let me start from top to bottom:

Buddhist are not vote bank?

Between 1991-2001 Buddhism grew in India by 18.2%, and this number is far less reported as to get reservation benefits, most of the converted Buddhist have reported their religion as Hindu and caste as SC/ST/OBC. But that is not the que, the que is, how can a Chief Minister of the state announce building a temple? That is unconstitutional. As per definition, government should not be in promotion of religion in a secular state.

Congress subsidy etc blah blah ……?

Is any one saying that this policy of Congress is right? If not then why justifying Modi’s announcement with Congress policies?

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HIndus dont mind promoting moderate religion.

You alone do not represent Hindu religion. That is your view, not entire Hindu religions view.

Chief minister of andhra pradesh bult biggest buddha statue in india at center of hyderabad, in 1980s.

That statue was not a temple but a statue placed at a tourist spot Hussain Sagar in 1992. That was project announced as Buddha Poornima project in 1985 by Late N T Ramarao, and completed also in his third term in 1992. It has more turrist value than religious significance.

And yes, it is not Taliban or Pakistan, go and teach this to SIMI, RSS and like minded organizations.

Many Hindu pilgrims and temples including Vaishno devi shrine board and Tirupati devastan board is governed and managed by the state govt

Absolutely incorrect statement. All of these pilgrims are governed by trusts and representatives of state governments are part of these trusts.

cont…
And here the situations are different, here the state government is announcing to build the temple and openly promote a religion.

Modi govt have demolished many temples in Gandhi nagar during the encroachment drive.

So what does it prove?

LET ME ASK AGAIN? DOES ANY ONE HAS A SINGLE VALID POINT TO DEFEND MODI?
Where is anti-conversion brigade on this question? Hasn’t a big chunk of OBC, SC, ST been converted to Buddhism in the history of India and being converted on continues basis? So is Modi promoting conversion from Hinduism to Buddhism?
Don’t say anything against Modi’s wrong doing, else user "Truth" will get angry, My apologies user "Truth", I am really really afraid. Now, please go back and read your answer again, and let me know does it need any comment from me?
LADY TRUTH IS VERY ANGRY……

So truism is promoted by promoting religion? WOW, then why is not Air India not promoted by Huj Subsidy? Though I am totally against any kind of religious favor, but that is only answer to your lame excuse to hype king Modi’s wrongdoing.

All your Missinary alligations are fake cry of RSS does not deserve any answer and does not worth my time.

And as I have said above, millions of Hindus are converted to Buddhism in after independence so what are you talking about conversion and missionary, your hype kind Modi is promoting conversion. Should I start calling him "Hype King, Conversion Kind Modi"?

Regarding all the temple trusts, I have already answered, please little pain to your fingers and scroll up to read that.

Did you get all the answers or do you need answers for any of your other comments that I have missed? Please let me know, I will be more than happy in replying you with similar comments.
@ Mr. Mildpace, I did not say Modi destroyed temples, that was Mukul who said that, I have only replied to him, so if you want any justification for the statement, please address Mukul, he should be justifying his statement, not me.

I 99.99% do not carry over a question or answer to the next question or answer thus no question of ego being hurt.

I have never ever said that Congress is clean etc blah blah… I know the ground realities.

Congress uses Gandhi family because it has one and that is why I can justify that, BJP uses Ram, and Hindu Vs. Muslim/Christian divide as vote bank politics and no one can justify that.
Mr. Mildpace, when I support a party, or part of a political party, everything good or bad I am find part of that. Whatever Congress is doing good or bad, I am part of it.
LADY TRUTH, come out of imaginations, have I ever said I support Sonia Gandhi? Why would I get angry? I said I support congress, and even then, if Congress is wrong, I will be ashamed, not angry. I supports is not BLIND SUPPORT.

I am finding very funny and irritated answers to my questions, some are justifying on the name of truism, some of justifying on the name of archeology. But the fact remains the same:

Hype King Modi, promised to Build largest Buddhist temple in the state of Gujarat.

Hype King Modi and CM of HP promied to promote a religion called Buddhism in their state.

And millions of Hindus have been converted to Buddhism and are continuously being converted, thus Modi is promoting conversion from Hinduism to other religions.
I DID NOT GIVE ANY THUMBS DOWN BUT I HAVE THUMBS UP TO TWO USERS, RAJ KISH AND J SWAMY.

you are unbelieveable….you know just how to put them in a spot dont you?…i can see them scratching their heads in confusion…now either they have to keep their hate for congress alive or they have to compromise on modi…ha..masterstroke..when i read the article..this wasnt the first thing that struck me when i read the article…but do you know how to twist things…great…really..
i’m still laughing at the though of the expression on their faces when they read this question..take a bow really..

now they say all modi is doing is helping the minority..they do not understand that that is exactly what the congress has been doing all along…

they say modi is better than congress cause he is doing something for buddhists who arent a vote bank…need i remind them which govt gave buddhist monks,dalai lama et al a shelter in india?

but thank you for this…you do know how to make a monkey out of bjp people

mukul…what have i said that has riled you so badly?…i think you are the one who is being negative..laugh a little once in a while…i made all comments in pretty good humour..and its not my place..but i think you have actually changed since the last time you have been on this forum..you were nicer and more mellow then…now you look like you are just waiting to attack me…dude..chillax

ms sir..no one has a single valid point to defend modi..youhave put them in that position…if they defend modi they will have to betray their ideology that no one should propogate religions..and you know it..spare them the humiliation…especially truth she has been humiliated so many many times…it s going to be unfair if you press them now…win but win gracefully..

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"Inasmuch as though the Prince, his measure now taken, was still pretty much the same "big fact," the sky had lifted, the horizon receded, the very foreground itself expanded, quite to match him, quite to keep everything in comfortabla scale.
At first, their union had resembled some pleasant public square, in the heart of an old city, into which a great Palladian church, say something with a grand architectural front, had suddenly been dropped; so that the rest of the place, the space in front, the way round, outside, to the east end, the margin of street and passage, the quantity of overarching heaven, had been temporarily comprised."

This is rather difficult to draw. The passage from Henry James’ The Golden Bowl – see here http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=1HlARBIf_9UC&pg=PA95&dq=%22At+first,+their+union+had+resembled+some+pleasant+public+square%22&as_brr=3&client=firefox-a&cd=6#v=onepage&q=&f=false – is where Adam is seeing his marriage to Maggie as a metaphorical cityscape where his son-in-law ("the Prince") is intruding as a great looming figure.

If I had to do it, I’d draw a distorted cityscape – rather like Escher’s "Print Gallery" http://escherdroste.math.leidenuniv.nl/index.php?menu=escher&sub=orig only with a church frontage and spire somewhere in there – with a large central figure in princely clothing dwarfing two smaller figures of a man and woman. (I’d use clipart and photoshop it rather than draw).

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"Inasmuch as though the Prince, his measure now taken, was still pretty much the same "big fact," the sky had lifted, the horizon receded, the very foreground itself expanded, quite to match him, quite to keep everything in comfortabla scale.
At first, their union had resembled some pleasant public square, in the heart of an old city, into which a great Palladian church, say something with a grand architectural front, had suddenly been dropped; so that the rest of the place, the space in front, the way round, outside, to the east end, the margin of street and passage, the quantity of overarching heaven, had been temporarily comprised."

*sniff* *sniff* I smell a TROLL

I can understand your frustration, especially after you have stood up for and tried to protect your wife all the way through this. I think she is being very immature in her reaction towards you daughter. It must be awful to be in her shoes, taking abuse from your ex, but she new you had an ex and a daughter when she married you.

My advice is to arrange visitation etc with your daughter through the courts. Arrange to collect her and drop her off without any contact with your ex. Continue as you are doing and support your wife, but she is going to need to realise that at the end of the day your daughter is not the cause of any of this and it is very unfair to punish her for her mother’s actions.

Your wife, although clearly hurt by all of this, needs to put her feelings second to your daughter. I have no idea how to get her to do this (sorry), but maybe some help through counselling or your church would help.

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Let go of your concern of how others live their lives and let go of the opinion of others on how you live your life. That’s hard to do if you are in this habit, but its a worthy goal and the path to inner peace is within you, its not ‘out there’.