[nukkad] Missing icons from tool bar or Frozen Flame revisited

[Anna Morawska <>]

Dr.M.C. Gupta wrote:

> *[Dedicated to Sanjay Limbikai and Anna, and, in an oblique manner, to V S
> Rawat, to whom this poem owes its origin]*
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> 621. A FROZEN FLAME�410754 in Love poems, 959463
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> http://www2.writing.com/main/books/entry_id/410754
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> One can ignite the flame of love
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> In a heart that is still alive.
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> If there lingers the faintest breath,
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> The dying can yet somehow survive.
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> A spark is all that is needed
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> To set ablaze the stack of hay;
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> Although, if it be wet, not dry,
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> Cold, unlit, unburnt it will stay.
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> My love, no longer does that spark
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> Hide in the recess of my heart.
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> The more you try to warm me up,
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> The colder, I get on my part.
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> Pray, do not waste your love on me.
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> Now I am but a frozen flame.
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> Take your love to a flaming heart.
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> I am a flame only in name.
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> * Written in abcb, 8-8-8-8 format
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>    - Can be viewed at: http://www2.writing.com/main/books/entry_id/410754
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> M C Gupta
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> 5 March 2006**
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Something new sprouting from the old tree planted three years ago..? 
Well, the spring must be somewhere near, though all is yet white and 
frozen[!] outside. :)
Here is the tree, just to remind you...

Anna.
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The original poem:

   Life...
   The Frozen Flame...

   The burning flame...
   Ambition and Hope,
   All the Happiness you might have lived.


   Yet...
   It is all frozen...
   Encased by the sorrows and woes of life.
   The pains and tortures you have experienced....


   Why is it humanity dwells on its downfalls?
   We freeze the flame of love,
   By remembering the pain of loss...
   Is there no way to move on...
   Can we not stare into the flame,
   Rather than seal it away in ice?


   Then the day will come...
   And when you leave the body,
   Beware,
   For the flame is shattered,
   And born anew in it's horrible glory.


   Then you shall see all the dreams,
   All the hopes and joys of life.
   All that had been locked away,
   Will be released.


   And you will realize you were a fool,
   That you should have dwelt on joy,
   rather than live in sorrow...
   And that is the true horror,
   Of the Frozen Flame...

   C Copyright 2003 strife_raven (UN: strife_raven at Writing.Com). All
rights
   reserved. strife_raven has granted Writing.Com, its affiliates and its
   syndicates non-exclusive rights to display this work.
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   Taher:

    THE BURNING FLAME


   To live among the sorrows of life,
   remembering all the colours of strife,

   To taste not the berries and the icecreams,
   to live not the stuff of our past dreams,

   To plant not the hug and the romantic kiss,
   to give all the beautiful things in life a dreadful miss,

   To live a life full of promise in vain,
   To humble oneself in fetters and in chain,

   To be mesmerised by all that is stark,
   And not fly in the sky like a fearless lark,

   Hardly fits my thinking, I dare say,
   to keep all the fun of living at bay,

   I WILL do as I please, I declare,
   I WON't live a life of despair,

   E'en though it may be known later,
   That I was a reality hater,

   I have too many tasks still to do,
   Too many open frontiers to yet woo,

   Were I to hail darkness and doom,
   For excitements of today, there'll be no room,

   And so, today, I shall continue to walk,
  Not brood, not halt , and not talk,

   About a million dreams is all I can see,
   This poem, Taher, is, after all, all about ME.

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MC Gupta:

  LAU JAMI HUI

  Takate ho yoon mujhe
  Kyoon hairat nigaah se;
  Mein bhi kabhi jawaan tha,
  Muddat magar hui.


  Meri bhi saans garm thi,
  Aahon mein tha asar;
  Hai aur baat zindagi,
  Ab be-asar hui.

  Uthate the mere dil mein bhi,
  Ulfat ke walwale;
  Is raakh mein chingari,
  Abhi hai basar hui.

  Na paas aa Khalish,
  Jaane kab bhadak uthe;
  Ye lau bujhi nahin hai,
  Ye hai lau jami hui.


  MC Gupta
  19 April 2003

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  FROZEN FLAME

  Why at all in your eyes
  I see that look of surprise;
  I too was in my youth prime,
  Though it is too long a time.


  My breath too was warm, nay, hot,
  When I sighed it was a lot;
  However it is different now,
  My life is lifeless somehow.


  Time was when in this heart my,
  Waves of love rose big and high;
  Even now in ash of life,
  Sparks somewhere hidden lie.


  Come not nigh me I tell you,
  Flame this may yet engulf you;
  I am frozen flame, no doubt,
  Know thou I'm not yet out.


  MC Gupta
19 April 2003

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    MC Gupta:

   FROZEN FLAME


   I was mere frozen flame,
   Your touch did me inflame.

   Mere thought I was abstract,
   You came and made me  a fact.


   I was mere misty haze,
   You came and gave me a face.


   I was mere melancholy,
   You came and filled me with glee.


   I was a dormant desire,
   You gave me that burning fire.


   I was mere words that float,
   You came and a poem wrote.


   MC Gupta
   April 21, 2003

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   MC Gupta:

   Kavita tum ne kar diya mujhe.

   Mein lau thi kewal jami hui,
   Chetan  tum ne kar diya mujhe.

   Mein to thi kewal bhav magar,
   Tum ne tathya kar diya mujhe.

   Mein to thi kewal ek dhuan,
   Ek roop naya kar diya mujhe.

   Mein to thi ashru boond magar,
   Muskaanon se bhar diya mujhe.

   Icchha ankur thi mein kewal,
   Pallav shobhit kar diya mujhe.

   Mein to thi kewal shabda magar,
   Kavita tum ne kar diya mujhe.

   MC Gupta
   April 21, 2003

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   Anna:

   the frozen flame
   does so remain

   until in the light
   of a flame burning bright

   it finds the way
   then come what may....

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   Siddiqui:

   I am the frozen flame
   that will never thaw
   hold me always in palms
   living in darkness is a shame
   right path to life i will show
   let me always be with you
   passion in hearts i will sow.
   let me stand beside you.

   Mohammed  Siddiqui

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   Sai:

   Life - The Frozen Flame (by Sai)

   I have wondered for a while
   Exactly what this thing called Life is

   As a child I have wandered through
   Its mists, taking my elders' hands for guidance
   Peeking up at everything
   Looking at everything - absorbing all
   Seeing, feeling, smelling, breathing
   Touching the flame and recoiling

   And yet I wondered
   Exactly what this thing called Life is

   And then I saw
   A calf with its mother (an election symbol)
   A mother feeding her young hidden under
   My own mother and father taking me to a Christmas party
   Children in the garden, laughing, screaming in ecstasy
   Beggars prodding at garbage heaps along with bandicoots
   Dogs giving birth to puppies, cats and kittens mewing
   In our winter clothes basket
   Such pleasure and pain that I didn't understand

   And I wondered, Still I wonder (not who'll stop the rain)
   Exactly what this thing called Life is

   They told me I had grown up
   To behave myself, to mind the aspirations of elders
   And I failed them, not an engineer, nor a doctor
   A mere second grade Bachelor, forced to become a Master
   Watched as others were praised
   Plunged into reading - but not for exams
   Read a hundred books in a year
   And the quest was still there

   The thirst, unslaked for
   Exactly what this thing called Life is

   Settled with a beauty, after a couple of false starts
   Saw friends grow families, and envied them
   And then I had one of my own, and then another
   I saw what my parents must have
   Stumbling footsteps, Bubbling energy
   Worrying elders and carefree tots

   And then I saw what life was
   Watching my own grow before me
   Relive memories as in a flashback from a movie
   Hear memories of me in them
   It must be unchanging this
   Wonderful place called the world

   Life is, but,
   A frozen flame
   Ever changing but never ending
   Nothing but,
   A frozen flame

   Life is beautiful
   Live life

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Ragini

Enflamed with happiness flame lit its life......
Embraced the moments with all the delight

Strong were the winds, cross were the rains
Flame was vibrant, in hands controlling the reins

Lived frozen for long, in the world so dear
When touched by a song it melted in tears

Thawed to happiness, it was glowing, not flicker
Swaying with joy, flame did not run helter-skelter.

Why did it forget....it is meant just to burn
And burn alone, or lay dim in the urn

Why thaw to warmth, to life so quick,
To burn both ends, to ashes the wick.


Ragini
29 April 2003

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Shyami:

Frozen Flame

I had been hiding this little secret
I had been counting days and hours
I touched my stomach and felt you in me
And a smile bloomed on my lips instantly

Logic told me I was wrong
You cannot feel babies this soon
But I knew you were there
And may be you could feel my touch too

I told myself it is a little girl
Who will be the light of my life
I even found a name for you
A name which meant "matchless"

The tiny spark was growing big
I could feel its warmth
It made my life bright
My life was worth living

They found my little secret
Dragged me out of my hiding place
They said I had to work and so
They wanted you out

They did succeed
That is what they thought
But inside me you still were
In the form of a frozen flame

Time will come when it will be right
For my little frozen flame to thaw
When my world will be filled
With warmth and light again!

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Rajababu:


Frozen flame:

The candle burnt itself out steadily,
She was destined for this frozen vacuity,
Tirelessly, she kept sacrificing herself,
The frozen flame burnt for the benefit of the family,
Non one noticed how she burnt at both ends,
Appearing at the crack of dawn every morn,
Everyone sought comfort in the heat,
Yet no one asked her for a refill,
So it was no wonder that once she emptied herself on the candle stand,
Everyone clamored for an immediate replacement.

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Asha:

Frozen Flame
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My memory begins with the dawn of the Sun,
When I walked with my parents through the mist.
Spring, summer, autumn and winter,
That moment that had gone and come again.

My budding world...flames of innocence�

A mystic journey of awe and grief, joy and surprise,
Resting under the shades of tamarind trees,
Drawing water from the well, quenching our thirst,
We jumped up in delight as the sparrows flew together.

My motivating world�flames of inspiration�

A country-house in which my grandparents lived,
Those lush green fields, which captured my soul,
The gurgling river, loving mother for our lands,
That endless progression, moving through revolution of time.

My emerging world�flames of success�

Mistakes and embarrassments, laughter and tears,
Marriages and celebrations, song and dance,
Protest and rebellion, fights and deaths,
We survived through all, a tiring journey.

My thrilling world�flames of magic�

Now, there is no story to tell, not since the day the Sunset,
No story that picks from where the past left off,
No story of my country, no history to narrate,
My family and I, and people I knew, were only imagined faces.

My frozen world�flames of last ceremony�

Asha.B.A
10/5/2003

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Pankaj:

The deadly pale of my skin flares
Mixing unobtrusively and unabashedly with
the pigment of life, which inordinately
gushes out as an unimpeded fountain
In its deluge rebuking the eventual, as
The dying tissues give their last cry
the mist of sharp metallic droplets, violently
Violate continuously the sanctum sanctorum of their animation
The blood curdles, still in an ostentatious pomp
Labial muscles exhibiting their obstinacy that
Now I unlock, now I clasp my lips
Moving them infinitesimally, known only to me
Silence, when I speak, is conspicuously egregious
As it betrays everything hitherto unknown
And, the music keeps on playing, Presto and adagio
at once; still to a soothing effect
The finite ceases, disowning continuance--I am
Solitarily confined in that single chime,
In this temporary permanence there is no light, anymore, but
only a weakly magnificent frozen flame

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drtv:

The frozen flame

Strange things happened one day
I was in my room
Meditating on the flame
As I used to

The room is warm
Gentle breeze caressing
Silence all over
Sweet fragrance soothing

The flame is dancing
Leaping about
Almost playfully
Is it the wind? Or my mind?

Falling deeper and deeper inside
Suddenly warmth is there no more
Biting cold, chilling the marrow
Have I been transported to the tundra?

Darkness around
Cold breath hurting
Numbness in limbs
Shivering all over

Where am I?
Is this how it ends?
What books were talking of?
Done some process wrong?

But the warmth is back
In the mind, not the body
The state of the body matters no more
Am floating in a golden light.

No mental gymnastics
No turbulence of mind
Enjoying the bliss!
Peace at last!


Now back in this world
I start wondering!
What pulled me out?
Who is that friend?

I open my eyes
The answer is there
Shining in front
The frozen flame!

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