A Reminder of...

Amanda Spain by Jonathan Irvin of Enigma Fotos.

LVI

Waste not your Hour, nor in the vain pursuit

Of This and That endeavour and dispute;

Better be merry with the fruitful Grape

Than sadden after none, or bitter, Fruit.

- from the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyám 

Softness

Again Los Angeles

October 26, 2012
 Wearing an Elaine Lace Maxi dress 

XC

And once again there gathered a scarce heard

Whisper among them: as it were, the stirr'd

 Ashes of some all but extinguiht Tongue,

Which mine ear kindled into living word.

~ Omar Khayyám

Enigma Fotos

Amanda Spain by Jonathan Irvin
April 17, 2013

I

Wake! For the Sun behind you Eastern height
Has chased the Session of the Stars from Night;
  And, to the field of Heav'n ascending, strikes
The Sultan's Turret with a Shaft of Light.

~ Omar Khayyám

IN Knowing this...

2 women window shopping 

"God has made many doors opening into truth which He opens to all who knock upon them with hands of faith." - Kahlil Gibran, poet

Lisa Rinna, actress

II

Before the phantom of False morning died,
Methought a Voice within the Tavern cried,
  "When all the Temple is prepared within,
Why lags the drowsy Worshipper outside?"

~ Omar Khayyám

A Moment

Ms Brooklyn Haze
Oct. 1, 2013

October 1, 2013

XI

Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough,

A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse - and Thou

Beside me singing in the Wilderness -

And Wilderness is Paradise enow.

~ Omar Khayyám

translated by Edward Fitzgerald

A NAME

The whole of the name of the Persian poet, mystic, philosopher, Omar Khayyám means:

غیاث ‌الدین Ghiyāth ad-Din - means "the Shoulder of the Faith" and implies the knowledge of the Quran.
ابوالفتح عمر بن ابراهیم Abu'l-Fat'h 'Umar ibn Ibrāhīm - Abu means father, Fat'h means conqueror, 'Umar means life, Ibrahim is the name of the father.
خیام Khayyām - means "tent maker" it is a byname derived from the father's craft.
نیشابورﻯ Nīshāpūrī - is the link to his hometown of Nishapur.