FLOW soft RIVER, gently stray, Still a silent waving tide O’er thy glitt’ring carpet glide, While I chaunt my ROUNDELAY, As I gather from thy bank, Shelter’d by the poplar dank, King-cups, deck’d in golden pride, Harebells sweet, and daisies pied; While beneath the evening sky, Soft the western breezes fly. Gentle RIVER, should’st thou [...]

He’d grown quite tired by then, but still he tried To appease or even please that ghost whose voice Pursued him, critical of every move— Pursued him easily, relentlessly; A spectral helicopter hovering high Above him, searchlight showering him in white, As, trapped inside its shifting spot, he ran, The voice reverberating in his ears. [...]

They come in boats the boats seem over crowded the poor unwanted from Lands far away Only to be taken to detention centres and told that in this Land you cannot stay To come this far they’ve sold all of their worldly possessions and for rejection a huge price they pay But still the refugee [...]

Those who take hostages and behead them are the cowardliest of men For their cause in this way sympathy they cannot hope to win For themselves they sow the worst of foredoom if for their heinous crimes they do not pay Then the bad karma they’ve sown for themselves will catch up with them one [...]

They hurried here, as soon as you had died, Their faces damp with haste and sympathy, And pressed my hand in theirs, and smoothed my knee, And clicked their tongues, and watched me, mournful-eyed. Gently they told me of that Other Side- How, even then, you waited there for me, And what ecstatic meeting ours [...]

Rain, midnight rain, nothing but the wild rain On this bleak hut, and solitude, and me Remembering again that I shall die And neither hear the rain nor give it thanks For washing me cleaner than I have been Since I was born into this solitude. Blessed are the dead that the rain rains upon: [...]

A complaint by many women is a good man is hard to find That many men are selfish and to the needs of women blind And that some men physically abuse their women so happens to be true But give the good man credit if credit he is due. For the crimes men commit against [...]

Life is an image of beautiful rainbow, It shines like the spectrum of 7colours, It’s like the seven days of the week, (OR) Like the diverse feelings of joy, sorrow, sacred, sympathy, love, dignity, depression. To receive the astonishing life of fairyland, It is vital to receive the appeal of each colour, A rainbow glows [...]

BEHAVIOR–fresh, native, copious, each one for himself or herself, Nature and the Soul expressed–America and freedom expressed–In it the finest art, In it pride, cleanliness, sympathy, to have their chance, In it physique, intellect, faith–in it just as much as to manage an army or a city, or to write a book–perhaps more, The youth, [...]

I have been young, and now am not too old; And I have seen the righteous forsaken, His health, his honour and his quality taken. This is not what we were formerly told. I have seen a green country, useful to the race, Knocked silly with guns and mines, its villages vanished, Even the last [...]