Category: Opinion

Don’t Be Pathetic

Sometimes, we take God to be a Pasar Malam traderWe negotiate transactions and attempt to make deals with himSometimes, we even try to make a

Glimpses of The Possible

Fleeting moments of bliss are glimpsesOf the possible, of the heavenlyMoments of small, beautiful dreamsWithin a largely nightmarish reverieTingling and exciting the sense of senses

See the Sublime

You can be in many placesYet in reality, and with no surpriseYou are actually, nowhere at allFor you were never there, in the first placeWhenever

The Jungle Boy

In a jungle deep, where shadows playLived a boy, bright as the dayWith eyes that saw beyond the treesHe led with wisdom, like the breeze

Reach Out For The Light

By MAYA GREEN One of my earliest recollections, I recallIs in reaching out for the light, aflickeringI had to crawl on all fours, to that

Betraying the public trust

Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government. – Milton Friedman, American economist Every time the

Dreams Danced While Reality Wept

‘Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.’ – Langston Hughes (1902–1967); a prominent American poet, social