Don’t Talk to Me of Love

Talk to me of anything,If you please, everythingBut love.It is a topic over-exploited,More like an onion too sauteed.What is it with everyone,Each relative and that unknown bun,Who lives in "loveland?"Don't they have anything else to think?Is this the only way they find to sink?Talk to me of nature --Diversified in its great stature,Of rivers and [...]

Game of Thrones: Tyrion Lannister

A small man Casting a big shadow, A "half-man" Being more human than most, That's Tyrion Lannister. Never loved by a father, Never loved by a sister, Never loved by a wife, Still he never stopped loving, That's Tyrion Lannister. No good as a soldier Yet helmed a victorious battle, Not from a friendly family [...]

Beauty

Beauty - that subjective word! What's beautiful to me Is horrendous to you. What makes me go, "Awww..." Makes you go, "Ewww..." Beauty - that glorified word! If it's not beautiful, It's a little wrong. If it's not eye-pleasing, It ought to be rectified. Beauty - that inspirational word! Look for beauty To make beautiful [...]

To They Who Say We Are Not Enough

We try, they dissuade us. We try harder, they say we are just being silly. We give it our all, they say we should stop wasting our time because we are simply "not good enough." My question is that should we even try to explain to these "experts" how wrong they are or not. As [...]

Art of Appreciation

"Hey, but what is the point in appreciating a perfectionist?" asked Dennis. Exactly the same that there is in appreciating anyone who has put in some effort, duh! People do things for two reasons. Either they are trying to please others or themselves. In the first case, they clearly are looking for appreciation. In the [...]

Making Them Cry

They don't know you. You don't know them. You write something. They happen to read it. They end up crying. You end up winning. This is basically how any really good piece of writing works. The genre doesn't matter. The age gap between the writer and reader doesn't matter. The stark difference in the lives [...]

We In Our Stories

Every story we write may have different characters, settings and themes. But there is a constant that always slides in effortlessly in each of them. That constant is us - the writer. Here, I am not referring to the style of the author but the characteristics that the author possesses as a person.  Somehow, somewhere, [...]