Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Junaid Hafeez plays Don Jackson at McCoy Auditorium, JSU, Jackson, MS
Zooman and The Sign, a play by Charles Fuller, opens on September 23, 2009 in Rose Embly McCoy Auditorium at Jackson State University, Jackson, MS. Charles Fuller is an American playwright who received Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1982 for his A Soldier's Play.
Director:Dr. Mark G. Henderson
Founder, MADDRAMA
Interim Chair, Department of Speech and Theatre Studies
Assistant Director: Prince Duren
http://www.jsums.edu/speechandtheatre
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Signifier
It was an unusual dawn in my life
When I woke up after dreaming de Saussure
And found myself divided into pieces on bed.
Half a dozen letters make my name and now
I could see my body being cut into those six alphabets:
One arm with its forearm in flexed position,
Calves inverting towards each other with toes kissing,
An arm lying diagonally between thighs,
Face with a prominent nose marking ‘a’,
Left forearm standing vertical with hand
Holding my substance to make extraordinary ‘i’,
Tummy feeling comfortable being ‘D’;
I mocked at the prince of my last night dream
And the stinky arbitrariness in my mind was resolved.
December 2008
When I woke up after dreaming de Saussure
And found myself divided into pieces on bed.
Half a dozen letters make my name and now
I could see my body being cut into those six alphabets:
One arm with its forearm in flexed position,
Calves inverting towards each other with toes kissing,
An arm lying diagonally between thighs,
Face with a prominent nose marking ‘a’,
Left forearm standing vertical with hand
Holding my substance to make extraordinary ‘i’,
Tummy feeling comfortable being ‘D’;
I mocked at the prince of my last night dream
And the stinky arbitrariness in my mind was resolved.
December 2008
Missing
I stepped down the divine stairs and moved to
The computer lab: I needed not to enter,
Pushed the door a little and intended to peep through.
Though not in need for that formality, but more like
A human I acted ‘to be ‘; Still as a vain Master,
I made the slit too fine for anyone to see my eyes.
Just a glimpse will do for me, I thought and prepared my
Mind to see someone. Sons of Adam, daughters of Eve,
All the mortals from West to East were accomplices
To a folk, whose obsession for me changed his fate forever;
Love is horrible. Fall of what I created –Colors, moods,
Ideals, being—was there. Beauty was nowhere visible.
Cornered to the north, he was laying on a hump of blood
And bone. Love can’t be quenched in this way! Mourning at
His only mistake, he sighed. His lake eyes were dry,
And his ego was lost. He was missing me. I closed
The way to the beam of Light, restored the door position,
Set the lab free and again I turned ‘Not to be’.
October 2008
The computer lab: I needed not to enter,
Pushed the door a little and intended to peep through.
Though not in need for that formality, but more like
A human I acted ‘to be ‘; Still as a vain Master,
I made the slit too fine for anyone to see my eyes.
Just a glimpse will do for me, I thought and prepared my
Mind to see someone. Sons of Adam, daughters of Eve,
All the mortals from West to East were accomplices
To a folk, whose obsession for me changed his fate forever;
Love is horrible. Fall of what I created –Colors, moods,
Ideals, being—was there. Beauty was nowhere visible.
Cornered to the north, he was laying on a hump of blood
And bone. Love can’t be quenched in this way! Mourning at
His only mistake, he sighed. His lake eyes were dry,
And his ego was lost. He was missing me. I closed
The way to the beam of Light, restored the door position,
Set the lab free and again I turned ‘Not to be’.
October 2008
Shoes Imprints
A good question would always result in a good reply?
Seven in total, but visible to me is only one sky!
Shed enough tears, that's why the environment is so humid
"To err is humane", why are You comparing me with a cupid?
It rained in the whole town, why my hut remained dry?
Never mind, I would wet it myself when I would cry!
Seven colours were past, now I'm fond of chess
Black or white, no other option left to guess!
Is it evolution for which a human the way it now exists?
For sure, it's revolution which lies in the progress betwixt!
Throw away your sympathies, tear apart your attitude
Just be a robot machine with the button pressed mute!
In the race of jealousy, crippled ones excelling the capables
Always becoming the victim of the fate, it's not bearable!
Soft hands approaching me with a devilish heart
Similar to the sweets containing rock salt!
Intellectual approach overwhelming the spiritual emotions
Is this progress or I'm being pushed back through retrogressions?
Bloodshed all around, in spite of the fact," It is the only region available to us"
Controversy between crimes and sins, law and religion, always creating fuss!
We all are His made faces, then why to be proud of races?
Practise for the real world, we are here on trial basis!
Juvenile John said, "Time has no kith and kin!"
Reality lies within, skin is just skin!
"Dude, be careful of the van just behind you!" yelled the milk-man
"What!.. (scream)? "
I got slipped in the water
Imprints from the shoes died in sue...
Shoe surface was sheen...
I was blank...
July 26 2006
Seven in total, but visible to me is only one sky!
Shed enough tears, that's why the environment is so humid
"To err is humane", why are You comparing me with a cupid?
It rained in the whole town, why my hut remained dry?
Never mind, I would wet it myself when I would cry!
Seven colours were past, now I'm fond of chess
Black or white, no other option left to guess!
Is it evolution for which a human the way it now exists?
For sure, it's revolution which lies in the progress betwixt!
Throw away your sympathies, tear apart your attitude
Just be a robot machine with the button pressed mute!
In the race of jealousy, crippled ones excelling the capables
Always becoming the victim of the fate, it's not bearable!
Soft hands approaching me with a devilish heart
Similar to the sweets containing rock salt!
Intellectual approach overwhelming the spiritual emotions
Is this progress or I'm being pushed back through retrogressions?
Bloodshed all around, in spite of the fact," It is the only region available to us"
Controversy between crimes and sins, law and religion, always creating fuss!
We all are His made faces, then why to be proud of races?
Practise for the real world, we are here on trial basis!
Juvenile John said, "Time has no kith and kin!"
Reality lies within, skin is just skin!
"Dude, be careful of the van just behind you!" yelled the milk-man
"What!.. (scream)? "
I got slipped in the water
Imprints from the shoes died in sue...
Shoe surface was sheen...
I was blank...
July 26 2006
A Sufi's Song
It has been long to have some wine
I didn't shine for a long time
People say, "Use rhymes in poetry"
For God sake, its poetry, not mimicry!
I lost my spectacles containing the vision of love
Aroud my eyes, some wrinkles like a flying dove
On my forehead, some furrowslike graves in a row
One tongue & thirthy two teeths,what a strong foe!
The features mentioned are characterisitc
Only in need of the right match-stick
Searching the remedy for replenishing the hole,
There is something wrong with my shattered soul!
It's new world with contemporary definitions
"There are no facts, only interpretations"
The slogan all aroud : 'Live for peace'
The fact within may be: "Live to piece"
While you lose, "friends" around "condole"
Make some pictures with a pin-hole
"Work, work, work" and "Burn the boats!"
All this is needed for the Triumph roads.
Fire burning inside, water flowing in eyes
Be brave John, It would bring good surprise!
Feudals at the peak, poor licking their feet
Rich throwing it out while "dogs" fighting for meat!
What's fate? Do you know it? What's its role
In our lives for achieving our ambitious goals?
Is it God? or something else that's so mysterious,
What the hell is it? I'm so curious.
He is there to answer all of these to me
To Learn from Him, it's the only key:
I should throw Him some queries
And He would signal through pixies!
Waiting...
April 20 2006
I didn't shine for a long time
People say, "Use rhymes in poetry"
For God sake, its poetry, not mimicry!
I lost my spectacles containing the vision of love
Aroud my eyes, some wrinkles like a flying dove
On my forehead, some furrowslike graves in a row
One tongue & thirthy two teeths,what a strong foe!
The features mentioned are characterisitc
Only in need of the right match-stick
Searching the remedy for replenishing the hole,
There is something wrong with my shattered soul!
It's new world with contemporary definitions
"There are no facts, only interpretations"
The slogan all aroud : 'Live for peace'
The fact within may be: "Live to piece"
While you lose, "friends" around "condole"
Make some pictures with a pin-hole
"Work, work, work" and "Burn the boats!"
All this is needed for the Triumph roads.
Fire burning inside, water flowing in eyes
Be brave John, It would bring good surprise!
Feudals at the peak, poor licking their feet
Rich throwing it out while "dogs" fighting for meat!
What's fate? Do you know it? What's its role
In our lives for achieving our ambitious goals?
Is it God? or something else that's so mysterious,
What the hell is it? I'm so curious.
He is there to answer all of these to me
To Learn from Him, it's the only key:
I should throw Him some queries
And He would signal through pixies!
Waiting...
April 20 2006
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