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The unseen masterpieces of Frida Kahlo
Lost or little-known works by the Mexican artist provide fresh insights on her life and work. Holly Williams explores the rarely seen art included in a new book of the complete paintings.
You know Frida Kahlo – of course you do. She is the most famous female artist of all time, and her image is instantly recognisable, and unavoidable. Kahlo can be found everywhere, on T-shirts and notebooks and mugs. While writing this piece, I spotted a selection of cutesy cartoon Kahlo merchandise in the window of a shop, maybe three minutes’ walk from my home. I bet many readers are similarly in striking distance of some representation of her, with her monobrow and traditional Mexican clothing, her flowery headbands and red lipstick.
Partly, this is because her own image was a major subject for Kahlo – around a third of her works were self-portraits. Although she died in 1954, her work still reads as bracingly fresh: her self-portraits speak volumes about identity, of the need to craft your own image and tell your own story. She paints herself looking out at the viewer: direct, fierce, challenging.
All of which means Kahlo can fit snugly into certain contemporary, feminist narratives – the strong independent woman, using herself as her subject, and unflinchingly exploring the complicated, messy, painful aspects of being female. Her paintings intensely represent dramatic elements of a dramatic life: a miscarriage, and being unable to have children; bodily pain (she was in a horrific crash at 18, and suffered physically all her life); great love (she had a tempestuous relationship with the Mexican artist Diego Rivera, as well as many other lovers, male and female, including Leon Trotsky), and great jealousy (Rivera cheated on her repeatedly, including with her own sister).
Kahlo has become a bankable blockbuster topic, guaranteed to get visitors through the door
But thats not all they show – her art is not always just about her life, although you could be forgiven for assuming it was. Books are written about her trauma, her love life; she’s been the subject of a Hollywood movie starring Salma Hayek. Kahlo has become a bankable blockbuster topic, guaranteed to get visitors through the door of galleries, even if what they see is often more about the woman than her art.
But what about her work? For some art historians, the relentless focus on the person rather than the output has become tiresome, which is why a new, monumental book – Frida Kahlo: The Complete Paintings – has just been published by Taschen, offering for the first time a survey of her entire oeuvre. Mexican art historian Luis-Martín Lozano, working with Andrea Kettenmann and Marina Vázquez Ramos, provides notes on every single Kahlo work we have images of – 152 in total, including many lost works we only know from photographs.
Speaking to Lozano on a video call from Mexico City, I ask if a comprehensive survey of her work is overdue, despite there being so many shows about her all over the world?
“As an art historian, my main interest in Kahlo has been in her work as an artist. If this had been the main concern of most projects in recent decades, maybe I would say this book has no reason to be. But the truth is, it hasn’t,” he says. “Most people at exhibitions, they’re interested in her personality – who she is, how she dressed, who does she go to bed with, her lovers, her story.”
Because of this, exhibitions and their catalogues have often focused on that story, and tend to “repeat the same paintings, and the same ideas about the same paintings. They leave aside a whole bunch of works,” says Lozano. Books also re-tread the same ground: “You repeat the same things, and it will sell – because everything about Kahlo sells. It’s unfortunate to say, but she’s become a merchandise. But this explains why [exhibitions and books] don’t go beyond this – because they don’t need to.”
The result is that certain mistakes get made – paintings mis-titled, mis-dated, or the same poor-quality, off-colour photographs reproduced. But it also means that ideas about what her works mean get repeated ad infinitum. “The interpretation level becomes contaminated,” suggests Lozano. “All they say about the paintings, over and over, is ‘oh it’s because she loved Rivera’, ‘because she couldn’t have a kid’, ‘because she’s in the hospital’. In some cases, it is true – but there’s so much more to it than that.”
The number of paintings – 152 – is not an enormous body of work for a major artist. And yet, astonishingly, some of these havenever been written about before: “never, not a single sentence!” laughs Lozano. “It’s kind of a mess, in terms of art history.”
Offering a comprehensive survey of her work means bringing together lost or little-known works, including those that have come to light in auctions in the past decade or so, and others that are rarely loaned by private collectors and so have remained obscure. Lozano hopes to open up our understanding of Kahlo. “First of all – who was she as an artist? What did she think of her own work? What did she want to achieve as an artist? And what do these paintings mean by themselves?”
This means looking again at early works, which might not be the sort of thing we associate with Kahlo – but reveal how much she was inspired by her father, Guillermo, a professional photographer and an amateur painter of floral still lifes. Pieces such as the little-known Still Life (with Roses) from 1925, which has not been exhibited since 1953, are notably similar in style to his.
Kahlo continued to paint astonishing, vibrant still lifes her whole career – although they are less well-known to the general public than her self-portraits, less collectable, and less studied. An understanding of their importance to her has been strengthened since Lozano and co discovered documents revealing Kahlo’s life-long interest in the symbolic meaning of plants. She learnt this from her father, and discussed it in letters with her half-sister Margarita (her father’s child from an earlier marriage), who became a nun.
The missing links
Kahlo and Margarita’s letters “talk about the symbolic meaning of flowers and fruits and the garden of Eden, that our body is like a flower we have to take care of because it was ripped off from paradise,” says Lozano. “This is amazing, and proves why this topic of still lifes and flowers had such meaning to her.”
He offers a new interpretation of a painting from 1938, called Tunas, which depicts three prickly pears in different stages of ripening – from green and unripe to a vibrant, juicy, blood-red – as representing Kahlo’s own understanding of her maturation as an artist and person, but as also potentially having religious symbolism (the bloody flesh evoking sacrifice).
The Complete Paintings book also takes pains to reveal the depths of Kahlo’s intellectual engagement with art-world developments – countering the notion that she was merely influenced by meeting Rivera in 1928, or that her work is some self-taught, instinctive howl of womanly pain. Her paintings reveal Kahlo’s research into and experiments in art movements, from the youthful Mexican take on Modernism, Stridentism, to Cubism and later Surrealism.
“Frida Kahlo’s paintings were not only the result of her personal issues, but she looked around at who was painting, what were the trends, the discussions,” says Lozano. He points to her first attempts at avant-garde paintings – 1927’s Pancho Villa and Adelita, and the lost work If Adelita, both of which use sharp, Modernist lines and angles – as proof that “she was looking at trends in Mexican art even before she met Rivera”.
You can also see her interest in Renaissance Old Masters, which she discovered prints of in her father’s library, in early work: it’s suggested her 1928 painting, Two Women (Portrait of Salvadora and Herminia), depicting two maids against a lush, leafy background, was inspired by Renaissance portraiture traditions, as seen in the works of Leonardo da Vinci. Bought in the year it was painted, the location of this work remained unknown until it was acquired by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in 2015.
Given she only made around 152 paintings, a surprising number are lost. But then, Kahlo wasn’t so successful in her lifetime – she didn’t have so many shows, or sell that many works through galleries and dealers. Instead, many of her paintings were sold or given away directly to artists, friends and family, as well as movie stars and other glittering admirers, often living abroad. That means less of a paper trail, making it harder to track down works.
There are some astonishing paintings still missing
In honesty, looking at black-and-white pictures of lost portraits probably isn’t going to prove revelatory to anyone beyond the most hard-core scholars – although there are some astonishing paintings still missing. One lost 1938 image, Girl with Death Mask II, depicts a little girl in a skull mask in an empty landscape; it chills, and we know Kahlo discussed this painting in relation to her sorrow at being unable to conceive. Check your attics, too, for Kahlo’s painting of a horrific plane crash – which we only have a photograph of now – which she’s known to have made in a period of great personal turmoil in the years after discovering her sister’s affair with Rivera in 1935.
Like another of her very well-known paintings, Passionately in Love or A Few Small Nips, depicting a woman murdered by her husband, The Airplane Crash was based very closely on a real-life news report; Lozano’s team have unearthed both original articles in their research. While Kahlo may have been drawn to these traumatic events because she was suffering pain in her own life, her degree of almost documentary precision in external news stories here should not be overlooked.
Kahlo was an avowed Communist, and politically engaged all her life, but it is in less well-known works from the final years of her life where you see this most explicitly emerge. At this time, she suffered a great deal of pain, and underwent many operations, eventually including amputation below the knee. But Kahlo continued painting till 1953, with difficulty but also with renewed purpose. Her biographer Raquel Tibol documented her saying: “I am very concerned about my painting.
More than anything, to change it, to make it into something useful, because up until now all I have painted is faithful portraits of my own self, but that’s so far removed from what my painting could be doing to serve the [Communist] Party. I must fight with all my strength so that the small amount of good I am able to do with my health in the way it is will be directed toward helping the Revolution. That’s the only real reason for living.”
This resulted in works like 1952’s Congress of the Peoples for Peace (which has not been exhibited since 1953), showing a dove in broad fruit tree – and two mushroom clouds, representing Kahlo’s nightmares about nuclear warfare. She became an active member of many peace groups – collecting signatures from Mexican artists in support of a World Peace Council, helping form the Mexican Committee of Partisans for Peace, and making this painting for Rivera to take to the Congress of the Peoples for Peace in Vienna in 1952.
Doves feature in several of her late still lifes – as do an increasing number of Mexican flags or colour schemes (using watermelons to reflect the green, white and red of the flag), suggesting Kahlo’s intention was that her work should show her nationalism and Communism. More uncomfortably, her final paintings include loving depictions of Stalin, as her politics became more militant.
Perhaps her most moving late painting, however, is a self-portrait: Frida in Flames (Self-portrait Inside a Sunflower). It’s harrowing, painted in thick, colourful impasto; shortly before her death, Kahlo slashed at it with a knife, scraping away the paint, frustrated at her inability to make work or perhaps in an acknowledgment that her end was nearing. Tibol, who was witness to this decisive, destructive act, called it “a ritual of self-sacrifice”. “It’s a tremendous image,” says Lozano.
“It’s very interesting in terms of aesthetics – when your body is not working anymore, when your brain is not enough to portray what you want to paint, the only source she’s left with is to deconstruct the image. This is a very contemporary, conceptual position about art: that the painting exists not only in its craft, but also what I think the painting stands for.”
We are left with a painting that is imperfect, certainly a world away from the fine, smooth surfaces and attention to detail of Kahlo’s more famous self-portraits – but it nonetheless is an astonishingly powerful work that deserves to be known. There is something tremendously poignant in an artist so well-known for crafting their own image using their final creative act to deliberately destroy that image. Even in obliterating herself, Kahlo made her work speak loudly to us.
Frida Kahlo: The Complete Paintings is published by Taschen.
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Inheritance of a woman in Islamic law ; From Implications to Challenges! _ By Syeda Fatima Batool
Inheritance is a very special and technical branch of law, recognized in Shariah and mostly the principles therein derive their origin from the primary sources of Islamic law which are the Holy Quran and the Sunnah, which further finds evolutionary development in Usul-ul-Fiqh (Islamic Jurisprudence). Few principles are operating while facing illegal practices affecting women’s inheritance rights in socio-religious and socio-economic perspectives. Acknowledging the doctrine of Maqasid-e-Shariah as defined by Al-Ghazali, are aimed for preservation of five essentials of human well-being including protection of religion, life, intellect, lineage, and property.Despite clear rules in Shariah and legislative efforts within “the state”, many women face denial of their rights ( Meerath- “مِیراث” ) due to cultural and social norms of our society. The ethnographic dimension of this very domain suggests, few following atrocities in non-furtherance of the women’s right of inheritance to investigate:
Let’s take a judicial landscape purview first; aiming to bridge the gap between law and practice regarding women’s rights. Aforementioned few practices have no legal value and can be challenged and called in question in a court of law. A significant landmark judgment is a step forward highlighting the critical issue of women being deprived of their rightful inheritance rights in Pakistan. In Muhammad Sajid Tareen V The Govt. of Balochistan through Chief Secretary Balochistan & others, (PLD 2021 Balochistan 172) it fundamentally restructured how inheritance rights for women are enforced, particularly in regions where customs often override Islamic legal principles. Judicial paradigm is also vigilant and sensitized with regard to women inheritance rights. In essence, this very ruling manifests and suggests the following helping tools which play a vital role for women combating inheritance rights effectively;
A very common scenario within social and cultural fabric of our society is rightly emphasized in this very case Bakht Biland Khan & others vs Zahid Khan & other PLD 2024 SC 1273. Worth mentioning para 4 of the said judgement specifying, “this is yet another classic case of brothers’ depriving their sisters of their inheritance, and did so for decades.…..It was intolerable to deprive vulnerable persons and females of their legal rights.”
A welcoming verdict where Apex Court upheld the sisters’ inheritance rights, and fined the petitioners (brothers) Rs. 500,000 for wasting court time and depriving women of their inheritance.
In another landmark case ruling of Aksar Jan and others vs Shamim Akhtar and others 2025 SCLR 12 the Honorable Chief Justice observed in para 5 thatthe inheritance shares in the estate left by a Muslim is stipulated in the Holy Qur’an and a deceased’s legal heirs become owners on his/her death — Unfortunately, and all too often, females continue to be deprived of their inheritance by employing various nefarious tactics, bogus documentation, fraudulent statements with the facilitation of Revenue department officials and some advocates.The courts too at times are not vigilant enough to protect inheritance rights, particularly of females and other vulnerable members of society.And, simple inheritance cases are not expeditiously decided,...The practice of depriving females of their inheritance must be put a stop to, and those who do so must be made to pay substantial costs and not be permitted to benefit from procedural technicalities.
Another Recent judicial milestone is achieved by a recent judgement ensuring and re-acknowledging by another Supreme Court ruling titled Abrar Hussain Vs Mst. Bibi Shahida and others PLD 2026 SC 42 also established that women have a “divine, automatic right” to inherit, which cannot be nullified by unproven gifts or mere claims by male heirs .
“The Court emphasized that denying inheritance contradicts the Qur’anic injunctions that clearly define women’s shares, and any attempt to deprive a woman of her share without her free consent is invalid.”
Another most recent landmark judgement ofMst. Amara Waqas vs. Muhammad Waqas Rasheed, W.P. No. 365 \2023 decided in March 2026, the Islamabad High Court (IHC) has ruled“that all assets acquired during the subsistence of a marriage “whether movable or immovable” regardless of the title holder shall constitute “matrimonial property.” Hence are subject to equitable distribution between spouses. Relying upon comparative jurisprudence from Malaysia, Indonesia, Turkey, and the United Kingdom, the court recommended that marriage in Pakistan must be recognised as an economic partnership.Study shows in Indonesia, property acquired during the marriage is considered joint property of the husband and wife. Tunisian Personal Status Code 1956 allow spouses to include clauses in their marital agreements governing the management and division of property.Similarly Iran, Jordan, Libya, Egypt, Turkey, Syria, Brunei Dar-us-Salam and Malaysia are the current examples of catering the issue of women property rights by legislations in respective civil codes and family laws.
Furthermore for the “first time in the judicial and legal history of Pakistan” such an innovative development is seen regarding property and inheritance rights whereby it very clearly ask for an amendment in nikahnama form for addition of a column stipulating any property if acquired after marriage by either spouse, shall be divided equally, secondly court emphasized the education and awareness of existing nikahnama form to young girls specifically to enable secure their proprietary rights.
Despite the amazing rulings by the honorable apex courts, implementation faces hurdles and struggle to change centuries-old norms and customs in a very slow pace. Key indicator is the role of the “Revenue officers” serving as the first line of defense in preventing and curbing such illegal transactions regarding female heirs. Such authority and officers can and shall actively scrutinize every mutation while not just relying upon presented documents alone. It’s high time that the Revenue , Police , and all respective departments shall be given extensive and women-centric sensitized trainings, via special workshops and social media tool mediums in local languages also.
In the ambit of Constitutional bindings, the Fundamental Right under Article 14 of the Constitution of Pakistan 1973 mandates inviolable right to human dignity Article 23 assures that all citizens of Pakistan shall enjoy equal right to acquire property and Article 24 ensures and guarantees the protection of every citizen’s property against unlawful deprivation; followed by Article 25promising equality of all citizens. In the light of Principles of Policy, Article 35 of the Constitution, state is responsible for protection of family, marriage, mother and child
From psychological perspective exclusion from mainstream empowering roles and decision making, more often women prefer, “not to claim their inheritance” and to avoid family conflict\s and keep sacrificing her “share” amid fear, from social or family isolation to stigmatization. Women are conditioned to believe that asking their rightful share in inheritance is morally, socially and ethically wrong despite the fact that a female claim is legal and religious. Familial breakdown acts as a profound health hazard. Stigma-related isolation is not solely a social issue rather medical effects of this exclusion can be worse than the mental health conditions themselves.
Now from the viewpoint of Shariah, we find clarity of the phenomenon of a female exclusive and independent right of inheritance declared by the primary sources of Islamic law, The Holy Quran and Sunnah. Sura Nisa:7 mentions that “For men there is a share in what their parents and close relatives leave, and for women there is a share in what their parents and close relatives leave”.We shall appreciate treatment of women’s inheritance rights as a revolutionary advancement for its time; determining a mandatory right for female\s who were often excluded earlier to the advent of Islam.The core ruling is found in Surah An-Nisa specifically verses 7 to 14 and 176.The Fundamental Rule in sura Nisa:11 is incorporated that “Allah commands you regarding your children: for the male a share equivalent to that of two females...”. It states that a son inherits twice the share of a daughter. This is often simplified as “a woman gets half of a man’s share,” but this is only in the specific case of siblings when there is no will. This is concept of taseeb i.e the differential share ratio of 2:1 and is linked to the financial responsibilities placed on men as sustainers and providers in Islamic law, while a woman’s inherited wealth is her own property with no obligation to spend it on anyone else.Hence the share of daughter alone is half where there is a brother, otherwise appreciate the key Shares for females as fixed shares (Fara’id) for several female relatives:
- Wife: 1/8 in case of children; 1/4 if no children.
- Daughter: 1/2 if alone; 2/3 if multiple (shared); if there is a son, they become residual heirs (‘Asaba) with the son taking double.
- Mother: 1/6 if the deceased has children; 1/3 if no children or siblings.
- Uterine sister : A fixed share of 1/6 if she is the only uterine sibling.
- If there are two or more uterine siblings (brothers or sisters), they share 1/3 of the estate equally, regardless of gender, as defined in Surah An-Nisa:12
- Full Sister: 1/2 if alone; 2/3 if multiple (shared); can inherit residually in some cases.
- Paternal Sister: 1/2 if alone; 2/3 if multiple; specific rules with other heirs.
Notably crucial concept shall be known that there are many scenarios where“a woman inherits an equal or even greater share than a man”:
- Mother and Father: When a person dies leaving both parents and no children, the mother gets 1/3 and the father gets 1/3 (the remainder goes to siblings). Here, they inherit equally.
- Uterine Siblings (brother & sister from same mother): They inherit equally, each getting 1/6 or 1/3
- Only Daughters: A single daughter can take half the estate, while multiple daughters take two-thirds. In the absence of sons, they can be the primary heirs.
- Case of Kalalah: (Deceased with no direct parents or children). Inheritance flows to siblings, with complex rules where sisters can sometimes become residual heirs and take a larger portion.
Allah commands in Al-baqrah:188 very clearly that “do not usurp one another’s property unjustly”.
The Sunnah of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon Him) places a profound emphasis on the mindfulness and protection of women’s rights, establishing their well-being as a direct responsibility before Allah. This is most powerfully manifested in his Khutbah Hajjatul Wida (Farewell Sermon), where he explicitly instructed men to fear Allah in their treatment of women, describing them as a “trust from God”. Islamic Law of Inheritance is indeed a complex, technical and mathematical science. In modern day, contemporary debates are commonly known by scholars and reformers urging for need of ijtihad (independent analogical reasoning) in this very regard. Tunisia and other Muslim-majority nations are bridging the gap between practice and principle by revising family laws to align with Quranic justice, actively overcoming customary, patriarchal interpretations.The Quranic inheritance system is purpose-driven. It is indeed time to legislate accordingly. The Quranic inheritance system (Faraid) is widely recognized by scholars as a purpose-driven framework aimed at ensuring social justice, family cohesion, and economic equity. One can not ignore another socio-economic woman right, incorporated in Sura bakra:241that reasonable provisions must be made for divorced women,—as a duty upon the righteous. Such phenomenon is called post-divorce alimony. It can be any kind of movable or immovable property or something valuable, for which we just have developed our jurisprudence in a recent case law judgement of equitable matrimonial asset division by IHC 2026 referred earlier.
Coming towards the land scape of Pakistan legal paradigm, we developed a remarkable piece of legislation, known as the ‘Women Property Rights Act 2020’. It was designed to redress the widespread issue of a woman being deprived of her rightful property acquired by Inheritance, Will, Gift /tamleek-nama or Hiba, Sale or any such like mode. It’s operation has recently been suspended by a judgement of Islamabad High Court Writ Petition.2665/2025. It has also been implemented in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK). Previously the “Punjab Enforcement of Women’s Property Rights Act” 2021 was introduced within the Punjab. The Lahore High Court issued an interim order suspending this very law, halting all actions taken under it, and referring the matter to a full bench. Hence In Punjab we have only operational and active legislative medium for redressal of property grievances known as the “Punjab Protection of Ownership of Immovable Property Act” 2025, with the aim to protect women’s property and inheritance rights, more efficient and effective amid fast-track mechanism to claim property. In countries where continuous and systemic inequalities bars women’s participation in the formal economy, inheritance rights play a crucial role in supporting their economic independence. Such a financial security reduces women’s dependence on others also it allows them to make independent economic decision. As per ‘Gender Parity Report’(ICT)- 2025, “ the overwhelming majority of landholdings are controlled by men which is alarming systemic inequality in land ownership in paving inclination towards gender parity and gender discrimination. Recent data from the “Federal Bureau of Statistics and Parliamentary updates in Pakistan” 2025, indicate that only 2.5 per cent of women in Pakistan own a house in their own name, and 7.5 per cent hold joint property. Only 26% of women population in Pakistan enjoy ownership of property. Last year The World Economic Forum (WEF) issued it’s Global Gender Gap Report 2025, depicting Pakistan’s pillar-wise performance; showing minimal change from 2024, underscoring entrenched structural challenges. In Economic participation and opportunity, Pakistan remains 143rd, reflecting stagnant female labor force participation, persistent wage disparities, and limited access to leadership roles owing to low Female Workforce Participation with less than 25% of women active in the workforce. Pakistan fails to leverage half of its human capital for economic growth.Weak Policy Implementation: Last but not the least, a Global vision expansion amid Constitutional 18th Amendment marks each Province responsibility for legislation and initiatives regarding women’s inheritance and property rights. Hence it has increased resources to provinces to work for women’s empowerment with the aim to meet the Sustainable Developmental Goals (STG’s) 2030 No. 5, urging for gender equality and empowerment of females. International spectrum highlights CEDAW, “the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discriminationagainst Women” which Pakistan ratified In 1996. Later in 2010 Pakistan ratified ICCPR“International Convention on Civil and Political Rights” ensuring specific protection against gender inequality in all civil and political matters. Secretary-General of the United Nations, ‘António Guterres’ urged all governments to eliminate legal barriers to women owning land, and to involve them in policy making. On 2nd March 2026 while highlighting ‘Eight Actions for More Equal World’ he further shared that Worldwide, women hold only 64 % of the legal rights enjoyed by men. In too many places, they cannot own property. Even where protections exist, women face higher barriers to access legal aid or the courts. Every country must commit to dismantling discriminatory laws, and to enforcing rights in practice.
Unless, we include women in formal and visible empowering scenarios at basic grass root levels, normalize socio-cultural co-existence, promote awareness using most modern digital tools ; use data age mediums in shifting the approach toward women, recognizing them not just as beneficiaries of care but as active citizens with fundamental rights, we may not be successfully struggling against identified aforementioned few key indicators. Academia shall play its role.Patriarchal structures continue to limit women’s mobility, access to jobs, hence weak Policy, despite gender equality laws on paper, enforcement remains absent. Legal protections for women are poorly and in efficiently implemented. Devastating effects for ineffective legislative measures for women inheritance leads to long lasting profound distress, which endanger wellbeing of the person. The failure to enforce women inheritance rights and laws, develops a self-sustaining cycle where subsequent generations of women are likely to be denied their rights, resulting in perpetuation of gender inequality. ‘Female Empowerment’ is the transformative tool for combating the gender-based discrimination and harassment, challenging patriarchy, customary practices, and power imbalance, that perpetuated such power crimes in society. It is effective only if paired with legal, judicial, institutional and educational reformative tools that target systematic roots discrimination. Sustainable, long-term success in securing women’s inheritance rights requires a collaborative approach that actively includes men to dismantle patriarchal structures playing as key enabler of change.
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Where the Soul Finds Stillness — A Gentle Surrender to Nature’s Quiet Embrace and Timeless Serenity
GARDEN OF EDEN
My spirit soars up to the sky,
As I on the lush green carpet lie.
Ecstasy envelopes my always
…melancholy heart,
As, sudden wind blown ripples,
In the pond start.
As the winter suns, warm rays,
Caress my being I do sway
Frolicking and frisking, from here to there,
Like a lamb, the desire, I wish to bear.
May you bloom forever, my Garden of Eden,
Make my thoughts soar upto, The Seventh Heaven.
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The Quiet Weight of Goodbye — When Parting Leaves Behind Echoes of Love, Loss, and Lingering Silence
NO MORE TEARS
As you leave for greener pastures,
Tears flown down the cheeks at your departure.
The migrating bird flutters its wings,
Over for it, is the season to sing.
The Bentley turns round the corner
Disappears from sight, now and forever.
I shall miss your nudge and touch,
For our friendship others could vouch.
But since the ‘Sea of Gold’ is at a distance,
Leave for it right now, this instance.
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