so sensitive a heart due to circumstances turned like a stone without any feelings. But still occasionally tears flow.
People say there is water in the stones
I found it true
when my eyes shed tears.
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Reviewed by Srinivas Surya (Reader)
Reviewed on August 5, 2003
Wow !! These few lines are so intense...they punch you in your heart.....Good work. One of my friends wrote
" I burn my candles at both ends,
It gives a lovely light
But, Ah ! My friends
and Oh! My Foes,
It will not last the night '
Srini
Reviewed by Vahini Epari (Reader)
Reviewed on July 4, 2003
To pity distress is but human, to relieve it is Godlike.
We have in life many toubles in many forms and kinds... and the power to face the storm is wildly within us...after we face them , we find that they have no substance or reality left... Let's Overcome.
Robin Ouzman Hislop's poetry is certainly in dialogue with some of the key architects of the 'poetics of indeterminacy' – both the Modernist strands represented by the likes of Beckett and Stein, and the postmodernist strands represented, initially,
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" I burn my candles at both ends,
It gives a lovely light
But, Ah ! My friends
and Oh! My Foes,
It will not last the night '
Srini
We have in life many toubles in many forms and kinds... and the power to face the storm is wildly within us...after we face them , we find that they have no substance or reality left... Let's Overcome.
very true(your poem) when time is really bad.