Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda My Rating: 4 of 5 Stars Tempting as it may appear to wrap the poetic pearls from this collection of Neruda’s heartbeats into a warm shawl of erotic wool, do resist it and pause. These loquacious verses that assemble at the nape of a … More Book Review: Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda (1924)
Here by Wislawa Szymborska My Rating: 4 of 5 stars “She wants me to live only for her and with her. Ideally in a dark, locked room, but my plans still feature today’s sun, clouds in progress, ongoing roads.” With this singular clarity, Wislawa Szymborska views memory. By running a casual yet assertive hand, she … More Book Review: Here by Wislawa Szymborska (2009)
The World Doesn’t End by Charles Simic My Rating: 4 of 5 stars Throw a pebble into the pool and see it dissolve into shimmering currents, carrying burdens of ashen leaves that autumn has swept beneath the silent tremors, teaming to cry their laments; Or hide behind a ripe tree and cast a glance, all … More Book Review: The World Doesn’t End by Charles Simic (1989)
The Waste Land and Other Poems by T S Eliot My Rating: 4 of 5 stars Thomas Stearns Eliot. A lot is hidden between those three words. A whole world perhaps. A depth measured by many oceans, a mystery viewed from bewitching lenses, a song marrying numerous notes, a candle thriving on inexhaustible wax. During … More Book Review: The Waste Land and Other Poems by T S Eliot (1922)
Love In The Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Márquez My Rating: 5 of 5 stars When glistening drops of dew swivelled across the leaves, When hazy films of sun lifted their candid veils; When morning spring walked the aisle of the autumn road, I saw a face whose reflection, since years, I have behold. In envious … More Book Review: Love In The Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1985)
Happy Birthday, Mr. Shakespeare! Ah! It is your birthday, once again and an excuse for me to celebrate all that I have loved about your pen! The riches you have amassed over your lifetime make it almost unfair to other authors; I mean who can fill such huge boots? Not that the reader in me … More HAPPY BIRTHDAY, WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE!
The voices are numb and the noise so dim, chances of movement are oh so slim, As I imagine It to wriggle out somehow; and bravely take a last intrepid vow. It musters every ounce of strength, and peppers up with a ferrous will; It gears feverishly to step forward… But hell, the limbs stare, still. Puzzled, … More That’s the BEAT, Heart!
Some days my eyes, wander under rain; a little pensive, a tad insane; They loop from the branches, they hug the trees, they skim the sky, they kiss the breeze; Extend their vision to rainbow ends, and to the slim, inviting road bends, On those trails, they venture further and lose themselves in a world, … More Vagabond Eyes
My Rating: 5 of 5 || My Review on Goodreads || More About The Book || About The Author There lived a pair of eyes in whose serenity the dawn and dusk merged, in whose voice the wise found their nerves, in whose heart even hatred turned love and in whose thoughts, a nation … More Book Review – Gitanjali by Rabindranath Tagore (1910)
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