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Month: December 2020

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Diana Nyad

She achieved an incredible featAt the fairly advanced age of sixty-fourBy crossing ‘The Straits of Florida’From Havana to Florida, Key West. Skeptics by sheer temperamentWould always find reasonsTo question or raise doubtsOn such a milestone achievement. Why can’t people simply takeThis feat at its face valueTo derive inspiration for all –That we should never ever give upAnd […]
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Diamonds Forever

That fun and laughterOn those days and nightsSome moments ofFolly and frenzyHope and despairAnd among all thisBudding and bloomingAffection and loveBetween teenage hearts… For a fortnightAs if it had no endsLife was standstillTime had stopped. It has been a lifespanDecades have passed;Would he ever forgetWould he ever change? No, never everDuring this lifetimeShe is no […]
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Demonetization

Perhaps, it’s for the first timeIn the history of this nationThat the common man is sufferingYet the majority enduring the painAnd not resorting to protests or interventionsThrough strikes, dharnas or processions. Ironically, on the other handThe privileged creamy lot of the nationPoliticians – self-styled messiahs of the landAre crying foul and opposing itEvery tooth and […]
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The Eternal Canopy

​Heart-shaped leaves catch the passing breezeA gentle whisper stirs the emperor of treesEach pointed tip channels the raindrop’s traceWhile quiet shadows fill the peaceful space. Underneath its vast and fine-textured canopyA quiet, soothing shelter spreads out completelyIt offers a vibrant sanctuary, green and wideWhere both birds and weary travellers can abide. For generations past, its […]
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The Tiger Beetle

This Australian salt-lake tiger beetleCicindela hudsoni in sun-bleached plainsAn insect of pale, tan or dull-metallic hueEndemic in arid salt lakes of Australian southIs the fastest bug with speed record crownWhile many other beetles’ species are slowerWearing iridescent emerald or rainbow armour. The speedster is flightless with vestigial wingsIt relies entirely on sheer sprinting speedRather than […]
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The Eternal Canopy

​Heart-shaped leaves catch the passing breezeA gentle whisper stirs the emperor of treesEach pointed tip channels the raindrop’s traceWhile quiet shadows fill the peaceful space. Underneath its vast and fine-textured canopyA quiet, soothing shelter spreads out completelyIt offers a vibrant sanctuary, green and wideWhere both birds and weary travellers can abide. For generations past, its […]
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