It was never easy for me To say without language To convey my feelings Without uttering a word Though I tried and tried Again and again To make sign on rocky walls To convey my feelings and thoughts By engraving or painting on rocky walls The walls of cave and […]
Poetry
Poetry
The World Beyond…
I wish I knew what lies beyond this life! If only, I could talk to someone already there! If only, with God I could converse! If only, a glimpse I could catch of that beautiful world- I hear people talk about! Is it they have visited it? Or have they […]
Reminiscences
Wordsworth said, “Child is father of the man” But this child has now disappeared into ‘the man’ Robbed of innocence his childhood curtailed The worldly shadows that round him prevail Makes the heavenly- halo round him derail Coleridge and his Ancient Mariner Fear no more the wrath of God Just […]
Respect
By Terence Wynne from Camillus, NY
Bygone Times
The wind is howling in an empty place cold and strange like eyes that stare into a glass covered by dust of bygone times. A room might be there in that desert-home, filled with thoughts we once loved, filled with visions and memories and all things that once were precious […]
Brotherhood
We are all broken, crumbled rounded again made from the same clay caked and baked in the same unforgiving oven We all have cracks in us from where the light gets in frayed at the border pulling apart at the seams Peeling off and breaking down into pieces in all […]
A Myth
A Myth In the modern times, When chivalry is dead Men have totally lost The earlier charm they had I’ve become a feminist, Quite capable and brave Not frail nor romantic But somber and grave When I was a little lass I read some fairy tales About beautiful rivers Flowing from hills to vales Stories of romance, in Magical moonlit nights, Between charming girls and Shining armoured knights Hero would come and rescue A fair maiden in […]
A Winter Day
Day after day the temperature dipped low Freezing cold it became Chilling the arteries and the veins! The morning melody could no longer be heard An uneasy lull shrouded the Earth The twittering birds to warmer habitat took off The nimble animals too succumbed to quiescent The barren trees like […]
The EC
By Billi from Guwahati, India
You and I
You and I in this world, Chained by heart to heart; By secret that can’t be kept in secret, We spreading out our love; In this dreaming life, You and I in this world. You and I in this world, Keeping ours by soul to soul; By secret that can’t […]