The Effulgence Within

By anib - About Me - E-mail this page - Add to My Favorites - Add to Blog List - See other blogs in Religion & Spirituality

Wednesday, June 29, 2016

Apostate Boudoir Memoirs

A ('disloyal?') man's experiences in a lady's private bedroom? Yesterday morn as I, startled, from my dream awoke, Wondering how’s it that my beloved’s at my side? Even as with cock’s-crow the sunlight broke Hesitantly, through the wide Open windows of her boudoir, falling On her disheveled hair,... Sign in to see full entry.

posted by anib at 7:39 AM | add or view comments (9) | leave calling card | link to this | view only this entry

Tuesday, June 28, 2016

She Was a Phantom of Delight

Related Poem Content Details BY WILLIAM WORDSWORTH I was quite enamoured with the use of 'phantom'! The meter, the rhyme and rhythm, to me, is nothing short of spectacular... She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight; A lovely Apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament; Her... Sign in to see full entry.

posted by anib at 12:28 AM | add or view comments (8) | leave calling card | link to this | view only this entry

Saturday, June 25, 2016

The Divide in Division

Two disciples, serious practitioners both, so goes the Zen story Ate of two bowls: the one; his brother, of only one bone china The food served at their revered monk’s monastery Pale and shriveled shrank one; the other, grew to a wiry hyena. Worried and wearied asked he of his friend “Tell me O... Sign in to see full entry.

posted by anib at 9:59 PM | add or view comments (7) | leave calling card | link to this | view only this entry

Wednesday, June 22, 2016

A Truth-Lie Sonnet

After Falstaff's humor, I thought of converting an Aesop story into a fun sonnet with three quatrains and a couplet, rhyming abab, ccdd, effe, gg, typically Shakespearean and not Petrarchan sonnet. Hope you enjoy. Once upon a time, came two lost travelers Upon dense forests of the Ape lands. One... Sign in to see full entry.

posted by anib at 7:21 AM | add or view comments (8) | leave calling card | link to this | view only this entry

Monday, June 20, 2016

Falstaff's Humor in Shakespeare's Henry IV.

Kabu desired of me to write about Henry V, a favourite of hers. I have chosen to write on Sir John Falstaff, appearing in three plays of Shakespeare - Henry IV, Part I and Ii, and a companion to Prince Hal, the future King Henry V. Sir John Falstaff has been regarded as the he greatest humorous... Sign in to see full entry.

posted by anib at 12:10 AM | add or view comments (21) | leave calling card | link to this | view only this entry

Friday, June 17, 2016

Cleopatra as a Character of Infinite Variety

Cleopatra is one classical example of how women can be 'one too many' simultaneously at a time, hammered home by Shakespeare, the master. The prompt of this write has been a mix of Kabu's and RPresta's comments to my yesterday's post. Cleopatra, as portrayed by Shakespeare, is probably the most... Sign in to see full entry.

posted by anib at 11:00 PM | add or view comments (11) | leave calling card | link to this | view only this entry

Wednesday, June 15, 2016

The Ecstatic Abandon of Shakespeare's Poetry in "Antony and Cleopatra"

The particular glory of Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra lies not so much in its dramatic quality, as it does in its poetry. The play is the story of a man (Antony) who would lose his all for a woman (Cleopatra) who would take all. There obviously could be no room for moderation amidst the... Sign in to see full entry.

posted by anib at 10:09 PM | add or view comments (16) | leave calling card | link to this | view only this entry

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.

posted by anib at 12:30 AM | add or view comments (4) | leave calling card | link to this | view only this entry

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.

posted by anib at 10:06 PM | add or view comments (18) | leave calling card | link to this | view only this entry

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.

posted by anib at 11:25 PM | add or view comments (7) | leave calling card | link to this | view only this entry

About this Blog

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?

Recent Entries
People
Blogs

Headlines (What is this?)