(1)If you’d found a way to hold your own against the playground bully, Would you go to school reunions now, and share old classroom tales? If you’d opened up, so counselors could understand you fully, Would the knowledge they’d acquired have taken more wind from your sales? (2)If you’d stood up to your father, when [...]
NIGHTFALL IN MEDLOW BATH
(1)My first Blue Mountains journeys were on Sydney’s country trains, With scenery improving, once I’d gone past Emu Plains. I did not know the passengers around me, but perhaps one Might care to play a card game, since we’d only come to Lapstone (2)I closed my vintage fiction novel fast. So I could then look, [...]
LONG JOURNEY
Professor Brint was 30, when he built his best invention: The Chrono-Car, and used it to explore the fourth dimension. He revved it up, and traveled back through 23 years’ history, And then the engine used up all supplies of his magistery. Now trapped back when his childhood self had only just turned seven, And [...]
To Annie.
We have always called you Annie- Tho you wandered far away, From the little hidden pathway Where the joys of childhood stay, Gone so quickly, down the pathway, LEFT US….while the vision stays, Of a Little Girl, name ANNIE- That I knew in other days. Gone so quickly, down the pathway- Left me out here, [...]
The Promise
1 June 4, 2006. The Lufthansa flight from Newyork landed in Chennai at 2:15 AM, thirty minutes later than the scheduled arrival time. Mohanasundaram was waiting at the arrival terminal with increasing anticipation. He scanned the hundred faces coming out of the airport for his son. After about forty-five minutes, Arun kumar walked out, waving [...]
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