Month: November 2016

Articles

Home Of The Brave Voter

By Mark Anthony Rossi The U.S. 2016 Presidential Election between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump is bound to be considered a political contest of historic proportions — but not for the most obvious reasons — a 40-year political insider versus a billionaire neophyte. A wider analysis reveals a seismic repudiation […]

Poetry

Beauty Queen

I was born with a not so pretty face and skin quite dark, The fair and lovely girls around were by a contrast stark. I felt let down by  the Almighty, he could’ve given me an iota of beauty, desolate and miserable, I wandered like a lonely lark. I watched […]

Poetry

Let’s Get Wet in the Rain

Hark ! Listen  to  the rumbling  cloud Hear  the  birds  chirping  aloud Feel  the  showers And  mood  of  flowers Relish  the  drip – drip Raindrop  sound Come  to  my  terrain Let’s  get  wet  in  the  rain I  will sing  the  song  of  swan I will do  the  peacock  prance I  […]

Poetry

Dear Brother

Dear Brother We grew up together you and I Each day now passes with a sigh We shared good times we were just two With five loving sisters of which one flew Her passing away was a terrible blow Then papa too decided to go Together we bonded the family […]

Week's Person

Person of the Week: Cathy Belk

Dear Readers, In this interview series where we ask questions to people who are making a difference, it can be big, it can be small, it doesn’t matter, what matters is their contribution to our society. It can be anyone from any walk of life and from any country. Please, do send […]

Poetry

Link To The Global Nerve

Consciousness is embedded in your brain, it is more in its action than thinkin’ and feelin’, pleasure and pain. It is the link to the global nerve. Revolutions that lead to war are a drag, useless they are, are male and are sex perverted into aggression and hate-satisfaction, are not […]

Articles

The Gravity of Art

By Mark Antony Rossi I remember the first time feeling the gravity of being a writer when the military dictatorship of Nigeria hung a playwright (Ken Saro-Wiwa) for writing a radio play about the poverty of his region. It terrorized my being more than the murders of anti-apartheid activists. At […]