Desiderata

Author : amarllyis      Blog : amarllyis      Date : 5/25/2013 10:20:35 AM

'A stubborn, arid wind galloped past his ear as he walked on the pavement. Golden stings sent forth by the ball of fire landed on his face. He tried to use his coat to protect himself from the attack, but the wind didn’t relent. A dry storm is on its way, he thought. In that moment of […]'

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Wish Upon a Star

Author : amarllyis      Blog : amarllyis      Date : 5/20/2013 11:14:37 AM

'When I was younger, I used to spend time looking at the night sky. I used to look at the stars and feel a fascination flow through me. Whenever I did this, I felt someone up there was watching us. Someone who was so happy that he wanted me to share his happiness. Someone who […]'

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Of Imperfection

Author : amarllyis      Blog : amarllyis      Date : 5/14/2013 5:14:14 PM

'Universal love is beyond me. The one that encompasses our beings and is higher than any living entity. One that is endlessly forgiving and boundless in giving. That kind of love, I’m yet to arrive at. So, meanwhile, I love you with my flaws and my commonplace self. I love you with the left-brain of […]'

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Author : amarllyis      Blog : amarllyis      Date : 5/13/2013 9:41:18 AM

'Reblogged from thequestfortime: if ever there was a forever after, I seem to have missed the bus, cross armed I stood as the happy train passed me by, piles of riches and blinding shimmery gems they cast on us, lured the comrades in, took hold of their guns and cracked open the sky...   Read […]'

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Telephones

Author : amarllyis      Blog : amarllyis      Date : 5/11/2013 7:10:21 AM

'Our village has been blessed with telephones. More communication, they say. Quicker, faster, bringing people closer; and you don’t even have to go anywhere. Aunt Polly, who never ceases to tell stories of her nephew who is sailing the high seas, has more tales to narrate. Some of them, I’m sure, are fabricated. Whoever heard […]'

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While I Wasn’t Writing

Author : amarllyis      Blog : amarllyis      Date : 5/8/2013 4:44:48 AM

'Of late, I haven’t been able to write all the nothing I wanted to. I haven’t been able to put on paper or on the blog all those poems I think of when I visualize the countryside. Those stories that I want to say about the crumbling society around us, and how there could be [...]'

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Academic Excellence and St. Stephen's College: A response by Thane Richard

Author : amarllyis      Blog : amarllyis      Date : 5/1/2013 7:31:35 AM

'Reblogged from Kafila: This is a guest post by THANE RICHARD I recently read an article in Kafila - more like an angry, reflective rant - written by some students from St. Stephen’s College in Delhi.  To quickly summarize, the piece criticized the draconian views of the Principal of St. Stephen’s College regarding curfews on [...]'

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Dubliners

Author : amarllyis      Blog : amarllyis      Date : 4/26/2013 5:53:28 PM

'I’ve just finished reading Dubliners by James Joyce. When I picked up this collection of short stories, it was to discover for myself what the whole deal about Joyce really was. Alternatively, it was also because I thought reading short stories was taking the baby step to reading Ulysses. When I was reading the first [...]'

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Euphemisms

Author : amarllyis      Blog : amarllyis      Date : 4/16/2013 5:00:52 AM

'I’m not sure when all of this became such a burden. Most people say that your heart knows where you need to go, where you need to be and with who you need to be. But what if your heart doesn’t talk to you anymore? I get into a local train and feel suffocated more [...]'

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And yes, that’s just my opinion!

Author : amarllyis      Blog : amarllyis      Date : 4/14/2013 3:23:58 PM

'I’ve been meaning to blog about a class I took recently. After some prodding by a colleague, I joined what I call a ‘syllable’ class. Of course, the right way to call it would be the Stress and Intonation class, but I call it the ‘syllable’ class. These are enhancement classes that take place in [...]'

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Losing

Author : amarllyis      Blog : amarllyis      Date : 4/7/2013 2:55:13 PM

'Rudyard Kipling set an impossibly tall order for ‘man’ with his poem ‘If’, and by all means it’s a poem that could replace all religious texts. There is a lesson laced in every line of that poem. Not one word too much, not one word too little, it’s just right. Right like that wish granted [...]'

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What Did You Think It Was About?

Author : amarllyis      Blog : amarllyis      Date : 4/4/2013 1:44:02 PM

'People do whatever they can to keep themselves happy. Every single act of ours is an unconscious step in the direction to find happiness. Some find it along the way, some pin it on a destination, some attach it to a person, and some believe that it will be found in the world beyond. Making [...]'

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Dialogue

Author : amarllyis      Blog : amarllyis      Date : 3/29/2013 4:33:00 PM

'His eyes are small. He doesn’t look like he walks much. Neither does he look like he talks a lot. His face isn’t one that you can read and know stories of how long he pored over his work to get it right. Or how his faint wrinkles show long hours of reading. You can’t [...]'

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Tea-time

Author : amarllyis      Blog : amarllyis      Date : 3/28/2013 4:56:36 PM

'Juggling and struggling A never-ending climb Within the universe When signs begin to mime I look for patterns In fractals that fall in line And take away tiny fragments Of possible answers I want to find But the jigsaw makes little sense And the fragments do not rhyme and the characters don’t match with those [...]'

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When all is not Blue and Red

Author : amarllyis      Blog : amarllyis      Date : 3/27/2013 3:43:06 PM

'I don’t know why some people would type only in title case or stick chewed gum under the bus seat. I don’t know why it’s okay for some girls to chase local trains in heels or tweet about their crush all day. I don’t know why most people would choose burger without cheese and why [...]'

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Of Tomato Ketchup, Among Other Things

Author : amarllyis      Blog : amarllyis      Date : 3/26/2013 3:16:11 PM

'They add tomato ketchup for taste All they have to do is squeeze a bottle To add flavor Where’s the hard work in that? Where’s the hard work of boiling tomatoes, and tempering them? Of measuring vinegar, and seeing the red simmer to turn crimson? What about the time spent waiting for the puree to [...]'

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The Yellow Desk

Author : amarllyis      Blog : amarllyis      Date : 3/25/2013 2:51:54 PM

'Her nails were chipped off, and she couldn’t align herself to a stream of thought. She couldn’t issue instructions to the workers in her office. As a result of which, they did what they liked and almost always fell short of expectations. The desk was yellow and had a dent on the surface. The yellow [...]'

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Because I Can Instagram

Author : amarllyis      Blog : amarllyis      Date : 3/13/2013 10:06:47 AM

'I am no photographer. We’ve got that out of the way. However, I do admire how some people take to photography like fish to water. And I’m not talking about the ones who know how to use Photoshop and the likes well. It’s beyond my comprehension how some people can take an absolutely amazing picture [...]'

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Niceness, chivalry, and all that jazz

Author : amarllyis      Blog : amarllyis      Date : 3/12/2013 3:54:20 PM

'I believe in fried potato. I believe in watching tv shows on the tv instead of the laptop. So, when I sit down to write, I think of Christina Yang kicking some serious ass on Grey’s Anatomy and I’m munching on chips, it should come as no surprise I’m in a happy space in my [...]'

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Spring

Author : amarllyis      Blog : amarllyis      Date : 3/7/2013 7:35:19 AM

'Wistful drops of dew gleam in dull sunshine Dressed in ochre hue Leaves in silence chime Autumn doesn’t subdue Heartfelt springtime Fear bids adieu When our hands entwine What once were me and you are now yours and mine Filed under: Poetry Tagged: nature, Poetry, you and I'

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