Moving was never easy, poem by Sunil Sharma (WHEN I MOVED Poetry and Prose Series)
September 25, 2016 7:46
Moving was never easy
by Sunil Sharma
Leaving is always tough…because everything calls.
The walls that were dull and dreary now look different and
suck in with a force = the gravitational pull.
The rooms are stripped — just a jumble of concrete dimensions
and become again a structure of concrete-n-glass hulking over you.
The bare floors echo the lingering footfalls — amplified, broken symphony of sounds varied
A tread here. A jump there. A skip over there.
A curving sound that ultimately dies down, once the doors are clicked shut.
Navigating the detritus of the past requires skill, patience, otherwise
one can trip, entangled by a protruding wire or the boxes, tiles and papers, forming a sea of crumpled memories, for the new owner/tenant to dispose/ clear.
The staircase, the windows, the uneven roads, the facades, the smog!
Well, every detail fascinates and matters; for the last time, the…
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Alegoria das cuecas
September 24, 2016 20:15
Os olhos já viram muito, mas nunca semelhante coisa. Viram anúncios de automóveis que se esquecem de mostrar o automóvel. Mostram, por exemplo, fetos de animais, concluindo com a marca, o emblema e o lema. Tantos! Mas nenhum com cuecas! Surpresa? Sinal que estamos vivos, e o mundo também. Publicitar um automóvel discorrendo, alegoricamente, sobre cuecas é obra. Porventura, uma obra genial.
Marca: Opel. Título: Ride Comfortably. UncleGrey, Copenhagen. Direcção: Laerk Hertoni. Dinamarca, Setembro 2016.
5 Rules for a Happier Relationships
September 24, 2016 20:10
“We’ve got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it’s going to get on by itself. You’ve got to keep watering it. You’ve got to really look after it and nurture it.”- John Lennon
One of the things that makes a good life is having happy and healthy relationships with other people. But like all other good things in life, happy relationships are not worked out overnight. They need to be tended in order to flourish.
Here are my rules for a happier relationships:
1. Always Prioritize People Over Anything Else.
There was a time when some of our friends were going abroad to work, and they were encouraging us to do the same. But my husband refused saying that it is more important for him to be with family and spend…
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onde os drones caem
September 24, 2016 20:09
I dream that I have found us both again,
With spring so many strangers’ lives away,
And we, so free,
Out walking by the sea,
With someone else’s paper words to say…
They took us at the gates of green return,
Too lost by then to stop, and ask them why-
Do children meet again?
Does any trace remain,
Along the superhighways of July?
Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow
Melhores momentos da vida de um poliglota
É verdade que, muito antes de ser levado para viver entre as bruxas contorcionistas, eu já havia sonhado com elas em seus balés formidáveis à hora do ocaso, sempre sobre aquelas dunas invisíveis que elas mesmas me deram a licença de poder ver, alguns morros depois que a vista da janela da casa da fazenda se abria, antes ou depois de irmos dormir.
Os grilos e as cigarras, insetos barulhentos que cantavam naqueles dias, costumavam…
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On Thinking
September 24, 2016 19:52
“The unexamined life is not worth living.” Socrates
“Imagination is more important than knowledge.” Albert Einstein
“Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible; thought is merciless to privilege; thought is anarchic and lawless, indifferent to authority, careless of well-tried wisdom of the ages. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. It sees man, a feeble speck, surrounded by unfathomable depths of silence; yet it bears itself proudly, as unmoved as if it were lord of the universe. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man” (Russell, Bertrand. Why Men Fight 178-9).
“All good writing is inherently subversive.” Charles French
