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Sometimes
Women loved, you could have been a lover;
Friends expected, you could have been a friend;
Ideas elaborated, you could have been a thinker;
Colleagues valued, you could have been a comrade;
Fixed problems, you could have been a solver;
Children hugged, you could have been a child;
Earnestly addressed, you could have been a ( Read more... ) -
Poetry contest shortlist…
My poem, “One Day” has been shortlisted by Cha (an Asian literary magazine), for the poetry contest they are holding currently. The contest was on the theme “Betrayal”, and my poem is one of sixteen shortlisted. Am delighted I made it this far, and hoping that my poem makes it to the next shortlist of eight finalists too. Wish me luck! :-)
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Published on Spark
My poem, Association Meeting, published in the Jan issue of Spark, the web magazine. You can read it here.
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Remembrance
Your effervescence
is your legacy and our
fondest memory.
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So says Dolly Parton
Dolly Parton on the distinction between “dreams” and “wishes”.
A lot of people don’t know the difference. I don’t know if I can exactly define the difference. It’s just that, to me, to dream something, actually, you really know that’s something that you can have, and then you set about having to work it. You have to, as I’ve often said, you’ve got ( Read more... ) -
Life is everything
So says Thoreau…
Men commonly exaggerate the theme. Some themes they think are significant and others insignificant. I feel that my life is very homely, my pleasures very cheap. Joy and sorrow, success and failure, grandeur and meanness, and indeed most words in the English language do not mean for me what they do for my neighbors. I see that ( Read more... ) -
Forget your botany
And Thoreau says:
It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know. I do not get nearer by a hair’s breadth to any natural object so long as I presume that I have an introduction to it from some learned man. To conceive of it with a total apprehension I must for the thousandth time approach it as something totally strange. If ( Read more... ) -
So Said Orwell
I have been reading George Orwell’s Narrative Essays, a select collection of his narrative essays - some of them fairly long ones, some much shorter and a few that are really a series of articles on a particular theme. Most of the essays make for very interesting reading and it’s interesting to see how the idea for a masterpiece like 1984 ( Read more... ) -
Some Tagore to end the day…
It’s taken me two months, but I finally finished Sabyasachi Bhattacharya’s biography of Tagore - “Rabindranath Tagore: An Interpretation.” A satisfying read though it was not as stimulating as his other book on Tagore, “The Mahatma and the Poet”. But that’s more to do with the subject material that he covers in this one. This is much wider in scope ( Read more... ) -
Sacrifice
In the slipstream of
his ambition to keep up,
her dreams lie clouded.
So she changes tracks
till she can no more recall
what she sought and lost
But while change is good
and flexibility too,
something dies between.
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