Xxxviii Poems - Poems about Xxxviii

K², A green wave of glance gently gathers near the sun eclipsed by moon I stare and I wait as prisms pull dark from gloom I am half light opalescent pinned in your sky you are breath dancing ever quitely in the bush drifting, gliding ever close attending and affable adorning the gift of life a first moment's mystery freedom, flight, fancyfree barefoot on the back...

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IF YOU PULL A LONG FACE : PART XXXVIII IF you pull a long vacant face Might be you just have nothing to say Which is not a crying disgrace Empty drums need be beaten to bellow away If you pull a long puzzled face Just read what poets have to say On their ilk and how they pretend to liaise Both thoughts...

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T-rumpers are thinking with glee You're in Kentucky next week, golly gee Your vote you can't cast! But this Thursday that passed I filed my form absentee!...

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IF EVER I HAD A COUNTRY : XXXVII - XXXVIII XXXVII If ever I had a country And if ever by some magic I were the Minister of Housing Development I'd make it my life-long mission by swearing upon it as a Holy Sacrement To rush to the rescue of every poor defenceless and distraught old tenant At the mercy of...

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K379 and K380 of Canto XXXVIII of the THIRUKKURAL, Translated with Commentary (Just a note on the translations to say that, even if G.U. Pope did more to research and elucidate the THIRUKKURAL, his translations - with some exceptions - bent on rhyme and stilted structure, require further interpretation and are sometimes needlessly obscure. W. H....

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K375 and K376 of Canto XXXVIII of the THIRUKKURAL Translated with Commentary (Biographical details of an author, especially of someone having thrived in a land given to scant regard for documenting history in a systematic manner and in a milieu where the oeuvre took precedence over its creator, may only be useful in elucidating some extraneously...

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THIRUKKURAL: Translation of Canto XXXVIII with notes and commentary Canto XXXVIII of the Thirukkural on the topic of FATE which I give here in translation (by stages) forms, in itself, a separate "book" in its own right, for it nullifies so-to-speak almost all the rest of what the poet Thiruvalluvar had to say in the rest...

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Unquotable quotes: Writers – XXXVIII for Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra and Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoieski who let not even hope sustain them and who used their own last drop of blood for ink The time is at hand when robots...

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We are all born into a dream so deep that most never awaken :: 04-04-2014 ::...

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