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73Gorgeous Giddha Girls
Giddha (Punjabi: ਗਿੱਧਾ, giddhā) is a Punjabi folk dance and very popular amongst Punjabi women. The dance is considered to be derived from a much older dance known as the ring dance and is known...
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77Thirukural – Couplets To Live By That Transcend Time
Over two thousand years ago, a sage from South India named Thiruvalluvar wrote a collection of maxims - 133 chapters, each containing ten short, forceful couplets. He wrote in the South Indian Dravidian...
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86Chinese Couplets
Chinese couplets are normally written on vertical strips of red paper in the best calligraphic style one can muster. The first (called upper) line is posted on the right side of the front door. The second...
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69china Spring Festival
The Spring Festival, is the first day of the lunar year is celebrated on the fifteenth day, and spring, commonly known as ". It is the most solemn of Chinese folk, one of the most traditional festival. The...
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59Ah, blessed sleep!
Villanelle comes from the word villa, meaning country house and seems a relaxing, refreshing sort of poem consisting of rhyming lines interrupted by an unrhymed line, forming a three line first stanza. The...
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60Days unfold like sealed envelopes
The ghazal is a complex love poem with rhyming couplets and a refrain. I say complex because this ancient form tends to express spiritual love and separation, not the love of one human being for another. ...
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71Defining Poetry
Before you begin to name certain types of poetry, you must first define poetry so that the person reading it clearly understands what the meaning is. I personally love poetry and not only do I read it , I...
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54Illumination: a poetic reflection on discovering Truth
This is an unstructred, mostly free-verse poem, written a couple of years ago, in response to what I had begun learning as I started studying at seminary, and my great surprise and fascination with those...
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56Punjabi Bhangra
Bhangra is a lively form of music and dance that originated in the Punjab region in Southeast Asia. As many Bhangra lyrics reflect the long and often tumultuous history of the Punjab, knowledge of Punjabi...
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49Sewer Rats
We were to scared to vandalize sewers when we were ten and we’d sneak down through the dark tunnels. Hansel and Greteling our path with votives, so we drew banana’s with...
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