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• Netherlands Limerick

  There was a sweet girl from the Netherlands who worried the hard rains might never end. When the streets became moats, she traded bike for boat, and rowed fast... Read more

  Posted on 26 December 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Cloud Color

  

  The sunset glowed orange in a wrap of clouds, looking like the interior of a hollowed tree trunk - fallen, split open, and with fire burning inside. The... Read more

  Posted on 24 December 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: The Magician’s Nephew by C.S. Lewis

  Amazon.in page Controversy swirls around this kid-friendly fantasy novel, a controversy not dissimilar to that which plays out among diehard "Star Wars" fans.... Read more

  Posted on 15 December 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: Kill a Man by Steve Orlando

  Amazon.in page James Bellyi is a closeted gay mixed martial arts fighter in contention for the middleweight belt. Amid the pre-fight smack talk, Bellyi is... Read more

  Posted on 15 December 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Like a Hawk

  

  I watch the hawks - watching me watching them - and wonder how many of them I don't see. They're better watchers: -stiller -more patient -less swayed by... Read more

  Posted on 14 December 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Fallow Field Heroics [Ottava Rima]

  

  I wander though the fallow field. The weeds and unintended plants are stealing food of increased yield, but soil is churned by worms and ants whose labors stay... Read more

  Posted on 14 December 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• Distant Hills [a Haibun]

  

  Raising my gaze, the world at a distance is softer, its contours green, a luscious green, a green which recalls past Springs. The foreground is rough and... Read more

  Posted on 11 December 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: Building Great Sentences by Brooks Landon

  Building Great Sentences: How to Write the Kinds of Sentences You Love to Read by Brooks Landon My rating: 5 of 5 stars Amazon.in page The Great Courses page... Read more

  Posted on 10 December 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• DAILY PHOTO: Bara Kaman

  

  Looking like the remnants of a bombed out Gothic cathedral, this expanse of arches resting on a massive plinth is actually the unfinished mausoleum of Ali Adil... Read more

  Posted on 10 December 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: Hanuman by Anant Pai

  Amazon.in page This comic book is one volume in a huge collection of graphic depictions of Indian mythology (not only Hindu, but also Buddhist, Jain, secular... Read more

  Posted on 10 December 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Literary Journeys

  

  I've taken journeys by the page, sitting before the Globe's great stage, trolling a knight's tilt at windmills, and seen where Grendel made his kills to kick of... Read more

  Posted on 09 December 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: Cephalopography 2.0 by Rasiqra Revulva

  Cephalopography 2.0 by Rasiqra Revulva My rating: 4 of 5 stars Amazon.in page This poetry collection is unique in a couple of ways. First, its running theme is... Read more

  Posted on 08 December 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: The Art of Description by Mark Doty

  The Art of Description: World into Word by Mark Doty My rating: 5 of 5 stars Amazon.in page Usually, when a book isn't what one expected, a feeling of... Read more

  Posted on 08 December 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Lesson Learned

  

  If I've learned anything, if the years of schooling and the degrees have done me any good, if the stacks of books that have passed before my eyes shed any... Read more

  Posted on 07 December 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• Stormy Shore Tanka

  

  I seas churn under darkened skies raindrops arrive pelting the sandy shore with wind-blown violence II the rocky shore becomes a fierce fountain as wave water... Read more

  Posted on 06 December 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Mental Catacombs [a Villanelle]

  

  I found the catacombs, below my mind's deepest basement level, searching for secrets in shadows. Up top, my tracks were writ in snow, and wet prints through... Read more

  Posted on 05 December 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Floating Feather

  

  A downy, white feather twists languidly, drifting downward. I spot it as I stand on my balcony. I'm transfixed, compelled to follow the feather to its final... Read more

  Posted on 04 December 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Dancing Shadows

  

  I found a world in an old book so darkly like my own. But built on sands I'd never seen, their marbled grains were blown across the land and through the door... Read more

  Posted on 03 December 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Last Sunflower Standing

  

  I saw a field- once sunflowers- now reaped at harvest time. Just stiffened stalks and wrinkled leaves, and one head past its prime. Those glorious yellow... Read more

  Posted on 03 December 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• Five Hampi Haiku

  

  I flat waters glide wide at the bend, their might mute II boulders stacked in precarious piles - yet they stand III the palm trees stand over stone ruins -... Read more

  Posted on 02 December 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL