Author Dr S Padmapriya

 I suddenly remember the time when I was 17 years old. It was the happiest time of my life. A romance or two were brewing...but nothing spicy or delicious took place in reality for whatever reasons to be able to leave a lasting impact on my romantic consciousness. I recall those days now. It is nostalgic- a bitter-sweet memory. I wish I had a special memory or two to hold on to when I sit here, uncared and unloved for in an old age home. Flash Fiction by Dr.S.Padmapriya 

 Interesting facts about some famous poets  1. Emily Dickinson: a. She wrote nearly 1800 poems but published less than 12 while she was alive! b. Death, faith and deathlessness are the main themes of her poems. 2. Charles Baudelaire a. Baudelaire always turned to urban life for inspiration. b. His first collection of poems, 'Les fleurs du mal' was banned in France for some years. c. Baudelaire referred to Edgar Allan Poe as a 'twin soul'. 3. Giovanni Boccaccio   He wrote his first poem, when he was seven years old. He had never even seen a book of poetry till then! 4. John Milton Milton's magnum opus, the blank-verse epic poem Paradise Lost, was composed by the blind and impoverished Milton from 1658 to 1664. 5  Elizabeth Bishop 'The 101 Poems' of the American poetess  made her famous, though only after her death in 1979! 6. W.H.Auden Auden is acclaimed for his love poems like 'Funeral Blues'. A pamphlet edition of 15 of his poems, 'Tell Me the T...

 Rumi Rūmī was a great Sufi mystic and poet in the Persian language, famous for his lyrics and for his didactic epic Mas̄navī-yi Maʿnavī (“Spiritual Couplets”), which widely influenced mystical thought and literature.  According to Rūmī’s philosophy, life should be a journey to union with the one true God, which is achieved by practicing love—by disregarding oneself as an independent being and turning toward the truth of God’s oneness. Aided by spiritual guides, one lives—loves—into that truth, gradually ascending to full knowledge of the one divine presence, then guiding others.   Rūmī’s experience of love, longing, and loss made him turn to poetry. He wrote mystical love songs to his mystic teacher Shams al-Dīn, the Prophet Muhammad, and God; ghazals (short lyric poems, each cohering by a unity of subject and symbolism rather than by a logical sequence of ideas); and many robāʿīyyāt (quatrains with the rhyme scheme ...

 *I Am a Rainbow! ( A Poem)*  I am a Rainbow, And I am colourless! I am a Form Changing Energy, A Soul yearning for Unity, With the Supreme Sublimity, To leave the realms of human catalepsy, And attain the great heights of bliss Godly! I am a Rainbow, And I am colourless!  _S.Padmapriya_

  Peace Note! What? The serenity of its innocent face, Life-Giver of all human ethics, The mantra of inner-fulfilment, And peaceful and joyous living, The Fairy God-Mother of all that lives. The victories of peace,  Conquer all with evergreen wisdom, Victories of war, Make the forest of life - barren! In the beautiful world of Peace, The Poets in everyone awakens, And all falsehood disappears, In a world of Truth for Everyone, Peace always reveals, Human fortunes' correct readings! Dr.S.Padmapriya 

 Part 2 of 'The Bard of Avon' series; Valuable lines from the works of Shakespeare - #Cymbeline  * 'Boldness, be my friend!' [I, vi. 18] *'Fear no more the heat of the sun,/Nor the furious winter's rages;/Thou thy worldly task hast done,/Home art gone and ta'en thy wages:/ Golden lads and girls all must, /As chimney- sweepers, come to dust.[ IV, ii.258] #Hamlet  *'Give it an understanding but no tongue. [I, ii. 249] *There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,/Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. [I, v.166] *To be or not to be: that is the question:/ [ III, i.56] # Henry IV, Part 1 *Lord, Lord, how this world is given to lying![ V, iv. 148]  * Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere.[V, iv.65] #Henry IV, Part 2 * 'Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.' [III, i.31] * A peace is of the nature of a conquest; [IV, ii.89]