Author Archives: elmelao

Alabaster by Sarojini Naidu LIKE this alabaster box whose art Is frail as a cassia-flower, is my heart, Carven with delicate dreams and wrought With many a subtle and exquisite thought. Therein I treasure the spice and scent Of rich … Continue reading →

Autumn Song by Sarojini Naidu Like a joy on the heart of a sorrow, The sunset hangs on a cloud; A golden storm of glittering sheaves, Of fair and frail and fluttering leaves, The wild wind blows in a cloud.  … Continue reading →

My Dearest Frank, I Wish You Joy by Jane Austen My dearest Frank, I wish you joy Of Mary’s safety with a Boy, Whose birth has given little pain Compared with that of Mary Jane.– May he a growing Blessing … Continue reading →

Butterfly Chinua Achebe Speed is violence Power is violence Weight is violence The butterly seeks safety in lightness In weightless, undulating flight But at a crossroads where mottled light From trees falls on a brash new highway Our convergent territories … Continue reading →

Fans, and many techies, keep supporting NI’s Rohan Shravan. Introspection

Alone by Maya Angelou Lying, thinking Last night How to find my soul a home Where water is not thirsty And bread loaf is not stone I came up with one thing And I don’t believe I’m wrong That nobody, … Continue reading →

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A Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda The memory of you emerges from the night around me. The river mingles its stubborn lament with the sea. Deserted like the dwarves at dawn. It is the hour of departure, oh deserted … Continue reading →

The Art Of Poetry by Jorge Luis Borges. To gaze at a river made of time and water And remember Time is another river. To know we stray like a river and our faces vanish like water.  To feel that … Continue reading →

Shinto by Jorge Luis Borges When sorrow lays us low for a second we are saved by humble windfalls of the mindfulness or memory: the taste of a fruit, the taste of water, that face given back to us by … Continue reading →