The Effulgence Within

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Tuesday, June 14, 2016

One Night Windless

Returning from a dank tavern one summer night Tired, I sat beneath a cluster of pine-serrated trees But where have gone all the breeze? Not a whit, or breath, nor whiff of wind blew Strange, I surmised! Why, not even the cawing birds flew? I knew now, one of those sloughs of Despond Hitting me with... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, June 9, 2016

The Swan-like Soul of the Artist

To which we conform is for us to bare, isolate and hone; ’tis our duty A most sincere journey in discovery, says the great master Shakespeare All the rest that we are not, whatever else we are, for that we are not here The process for the growth of all and sundry is scripted in gay abandon Wit is... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, June 7, 2016

Drunk in the Fount of Psyche,, Voluptas and Delight (A Repeat)

In the days of the old, it so happened that men on earth started paying homage less and less to the temple of Aphrodite; it went increasingly unprayed and its altar uncleaned from neglect. Many a times not even the incense sticks were burned. Venus, the goddess of beauty to the Greeks, as Aphrodite,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, June 6, 2016

Lost Love Dream

Come nights, and in my dreary desolate dunes Begins to ring, mysteriously, sweet dulcet tunes! On the distant desert horizon do I descry a beauty chaste Silhouetted amid the starry haze? She knows no haste. Dazzling, unharried and unhurried, she abounds: And swaying daintily, ambles on her lazy... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, June 3, 2016

An Old One of Mine

AWAKE, Æolian Lyre, Awake “A WAKE, Æolian lyre, awake, And give to rapture all thy trembling strings, From Helicon's harmonious springs... “ This is the poet Thomas Gray’s (1716 – 1771) Invocation to the Æolian lyre, that is, the lyre of the ancient Greek poet Pindar who lived between the 6 th and 5... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, November 10, 2015

Orpheus and Eurydice (rendition of the story in verse)

The greatest musician ever on earth, Orpheus, played his lyre with such masterly hand Wild beasts tamed, rivers stopped in their flow, trees and mountains followed as his band Nymphs swarmed, utterly charmed, but to Eurydice was he committed in betrothal On the other hand, relentlessly chased by the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, September 24, 2015

"Ulysses", by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Alfred, Lord Tennyson wrote the poem 'Ulysses' in October 1833, based on the mythical Greek hero, Odysseus, of the famous Trojan War. Tennyson was saddened at the news of the death of his good friend, Arthur Hallam, whom he loved and admired. The poem is a parallel with the theme of ‘leaving’ -- of... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, September 20, 2015

The Beauty of George Herbert's Poetry

THE seventeenth century was an era when science was relatively infant although full of exciting discoveries for a people of the time, and every academic interest espoused this exhilarating subject in their art form; especially so in the metaphysical poetries of John Donne, Richard Crashaw, George... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, September 12, 2015

Religion Binds, Spirituality Frees

There is clear demarcation between religion and spirituality. Spirituality is about liberation. And religion, as it is understood and practiced, is about control. At the lowest level religions tend to control through ignorance and blind belief. They do not wish to be questioned, because they have no... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, August 22, 2015

Pain as a Process of Progress towards God

Today, after a long gap, I am in the mood to give a long discourse. Excuse me, please. G. M. Hopkins' Carrion Comfort is a sonnet on desolation and the dark night of his soul. The poem is probably a record of a terrifying dream sequence that Hopkins experienced when he was in the throes of... Sign in to see full entry.

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Embarking on a journey in spiritual quest is fraught with the dangers of doubt, tension and anxiety, disbeliefs, misgivings, and a whole lot of uncertainties. Still, it is that one most integral aspect of life that humankind can rarely ignore or do without. Scientific minds are at loggerheads with what constitute religious truths; likewise, there are close-minded believers that give no credence to scientific facts. What I intend and invite you to discuss here is an intelligent amalgamation of the two seemingly diabolically opposite understandings: whether there exists an interrelationship that can help man to evolve and bloom like the perennial lily?

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