Arts and Literature
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Write For Me – A poem by Maria Miraglia
When the moon her maids call to stud with shining pearls...Read MoreSeptember 4, 2022 1469 1 -
Short story: The virus bomb
When hope fights monsters for the future...Read MoreFebruary 22, 2022 722 0 -
His Master’s Voice – A short story
“You are a swing and I am a shadow, I wish to surge with you”. When Jawaid saw that record lying in the shop of a dealer in the old wares, he recalled the scattered memories...October 15, 2020 1359 1 -
First Love – A poem on connection with Cambridge University
First Love It was love at first sight —and it was true with the breathless passion that the years could not dim and like a faithful lover I have returned again and again Half a century...October 3, 2020 2623 1 -
Poem: I want to hold a moment
I want to hold a moment – a moment filled with life, where there is a glee a spiritual joy, a happy soul. I want to hold a moment – a moment of my childhood,...September 20, 2020 971 0 -
The Barking Crow – A Short Story
I was dying of thirst and rain had been banished from the skies. The clouds were intoxicated elephants waving their trunks at me, their shapes transforming into a vortex of steam. I longed to ascend and...September 5, 2020 2327 0 -
Why an Andalusian novel on human bonding with Nature is relevant to COVID times
The story of Hayy ibn Yaqdhan is as unlikely as is its impact on the world centuries after it was written. The twelfth century novel was written by Abu Bakr Ibn Tufail, advisor to the ruler in Marrakesh,...August 25, 2020 777 0 -
A poem on discovering attributes of compassion in the time of pandemic
Religion in the time of the pandemic The signs are all around The lessons before us: Something so small That we cannot see it Has brought the mightiest nations Of the world With their mighty nuclear...April 17, 2020 1313 4 -
The Consolation of Philosophy
When your favorite poems Fail to move you When your sacred verses Cannot elevate you When even The deadly modern drugs Do nothing to you And you are still left Wondering How to make sense...October 29, 2019 766 0