Almost a Whisper » writing http://almostawhisper.com Mon, 09 Aug 2010 03:31:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 On 2010 http://almostawhisper.com/new-year-2010/ http://almostawhisper.com/new-year-2010/#comments Thu, 31 Dec 2009 13:49:23 +0000 Ali Salem http://www.almostawhisper.com/?p=937
On an uncertain 12th of May in the year of the Ox (2009 in Chinese), I launched my personal website, Almost a Whisper, as an attempt to exhibit the times of my life with the world of photography. Since then, I have published 30 posts with hundreds of photos, and as a result received around 2,000 unique visits and 12,000 page views from more than 90 countries around the world, or so claims Google Analytics. I look forward to see those numbers growing constantly.

As we all now bid adieu 2009 to welcome the New Year 2010 on our door steps, (I personally still see no sensible reason in celebrating New Year’s amongst all the chaos, poverty, genocides, and natural disasters taking place in our world) I would like to to seize this annual opportunity and send a message to all my loyal supporters out there.

“No words can express my sincere gratitude and appreciation for all the support you have showed me so far… My friends, family, relatives, beloved, and even those I do not know yet, to you all I say thank you with a sincere heart, and I hope to keep shooting photos that will keep reminding all of us of the value of each moment we are given by God every day.”

Yours faithfully,
Ali Salem.

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]]> http://almostawhisper.com/new-year-2010/feed/ 8 El Zahir http://almostawhisper.com/el-zahir/ http://almostawhisper.com/el-zahir/#comments Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:24:00 +0000 Ali Salem http://blog.timalive.com/?p=28

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Crumpled voices scattered across the breathing space of my mind, as I held my pencil with quivering fingers and asked it, “Can you draw her for me?”

A moment of stillness within the stillness…

“No my Master, I can not”, with an affirmative idiom it responds.

“Why?” I restlessly asked.

With a blushing expression, the pencil looked me straight in the eyes and said:

“Master,

Ask me to draw a moment of happiness in a mother’s eyes as she touches the lips of a new life inside her soul, I’ll draw it.

Ask me to draw to the morning glare that revives our existence, and dries away the pain that the past have left behind, I’ll draw it.

Ask me to draw the perfection of God’s paranormal touch on earth as it exquisitely blends boundless splendor and magnificence, with an everlasting stroke of serenity, I’ll draw it.

But to draw a moment of a celebrated lifetime, in the legendary month of June, when came an Angel with the name of Muriel, with a glare that lit the whole world, and a touch that made it come to a nirvana of its time,

Sadly my master, that I cannot draw.”

P.S: I borrowed the title of this writing from the short story ‘The Zahir’ by the Argentine writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges. In the story, Zahir is a person or an object that has the power to create an obsession in everyone who sees it, so that the affected person perceives less and less of reality and more and more of the Zahir, at first only while asleep, then at all times.

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]]> http://almostawhisper.com/el-zahir/feed/ 3 Random Whispers across Time http://almostawhisper.com/random-whispers-across-time/ http://almostawhisper.com/random-whispers-across-time/#comments Mon, 05 Jan 2009 03:38:00 +0000 Ali Salem http://blog.timalive.com/?p=22 A collection of thoughts, or whispers as I personally like to put it, written over the course of the past years.

Amy

Muriel
Amy..

There she was,

sitting in splendor,

smiling in stillness,

and staring in serenity at the other side of the world…

Across Life

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Time has passed; it is sightless and cannot see a thing.

My mind is at a complete loss, my essence wants to break out, the rest of me is just screaming out loud.

I want to be free now, like a butterfly in the sky, because the truth is nothing but lies.

The Voice

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A voice with a graceful heart, an essence of nature’s innocent embodiment, a song with enchanted dancing autumn leaves, a stroke of sensation with an everlasting aroma of elegance.

The inequity of my determination

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The inequity of my determination has gathered forces against me; I am not the man I used to be. I feel myself moving with no sense of direction. It feels like the waves of my hopes smashed against the rocks of futility; and their shattered pieces scattered on the shores of yesterday.

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]]> http://almostawhisper.com/random-whispers-across-time/feed/ 1 From the diaries of Elpis http://almostawhisper.com/from-the-diaries-of-elpis/ http://almostawhisper.com/from-the-diaries-of-elpis/#comments Wed, 30 Aug 2006 03:33:00 +0000 Ali Salem http://blog.timalive.com/?p=24 Outlook

Ever marveled about your real purpose in life? I am sure you did, but the bona fide question is, was your marveling a prize-winner?

Guns fire shots, while hammers strike nails…What do I do?

If these soulless tools exist for a purpose, then what purpose is my soulful existence there for?

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Isn’t the ultimate satisfaction of my soul a direct consequence of the relationship that I am for “all intents and purposes” supposed to be maintaining with my creator?

It is understandably convincing to think that I might have had some great and beautiful experiences in this life, but then, without having the mere knowledge of the noble and ultimate purpose of the life that I was created for, then I am afraid that I still haven’t fired a single shot, or struck a single nail.

A new era shall start today.

I shall take a journey to explore the genesis of the grounds that grew such purposelessness and dissatisfaction in my life.

Perhaps when I do that, I will finally be able to fire my first shot, and strike my first nail.

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]]> http://almostawhisper.com/from-the-diaries-of-elpis/feed/ 2 Muriel – Angel of June http://almostawhisper.com/muriel-angel-of-june/ http://almostawhisper.com/muriel-angel-of-june/#comments Wed, 30 Aug 2006 02:52:00 +0000 Ali Salem http://blog.timalive.com/?p=23 A magnificent voice that breaks the barriers of my silence and entertains my mind, like the feathers of liberty tickle the minds of freedom fighters…

A living sense of survival that breathes existence into my soul….

A beautiful bird that captures my being with a hymn that carries me on its wings of serenity to a fantasy of time,

where heaven is my present…
today is my future…
devotion is my promise…
endurance is my will…
love is my feeling…
contentment is my thought…

and eternity is my panorama…

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]]> http://almostawhisper.com/muriel-angel-of-june/feed/ 0 The forgotten gift http://almostawhisper.com/the-forgotten-gift/ http://almostawhisper.com/the-forgotten-gift/#comments Wed, 17 May 2006 03:41:00 +0000 Ali Salem http://blog.timalive.com/?p=20 Chasing Joy

It rushes down your body in a pause of time,
Leaving behind trails of surprising deliverance,

It is like a never-ending stream of devotion to itself,
That miraculously brings existence back to your lost spirit.

Embrace it, for it will embrace you back with its wings,
And only then you will become skilled at living your own life.

And if there was ever an aspiration that this world would pose for,
It would be for it to restore us back into existence…

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