BEAUTIFUL DANCER

BEAUTIFUL DANCER

Mata Hari danced beautifully and in sheer ecstasy.

Kishalay Sinha [G]

POETRY

Most poems are completely incomprehensible and can mean anything, like modern abstract painting! And also I have noticed that dry prose typographically arranged to give the appearance of a series of stanzas is passed off by novices as "poetry"! And euphony is completely missing! - G

A terrific - and terrifying - poet is Robert Browning (cf. his terrifying poem Fra Lippo Lippi which I read a few years ago - perhaps I got the name of the poem wrong - the poem I read was actually about a powerful potentate who brutally murdered his wife because he suspected her of infidelity; something like the black .
guy Othello, I guess, but even worse; the poem was NOT Fra Lippo Lippi, I think - what an odd name: Fra Lippo Lippi. Sounds like "hippie"... I have an excellent collection of Robert Browning's poems - probably a guide book by an Indian professor of English - but right now I don't want to engage in time-consuming search operations looking for the book in My personal library of 2000 to 3000 books, like looking for a needle in a haystack. I have more interesting things to do like watching sweet s. gals on YouTube and TV.)

Kishalay Sinha [G]

MANU JOSEPH

I have commented several times on the strange reticence of provocative writer cum journalist Manu Joseph - Joseph reminds Me of betrothed "Virgin" Mary and also of Adam and his "betrothed" Eve in the Garden of Eden, and seems to be much advertised as a misogynist or misogamist (read WORD POWER MADE EASY by Prof. Norman Lewis to see the difference between the two words; I am neither a misogynist nor a misogamist but A Strict Monogamist) - about the exact locality in Madras where he was born or grew up (I guess he may be a "reincarnation" or a clone of betrayed Joseph) - but what about mysterious God Himself IF He is living in human form somewhere on Earth?

Kishalay Sinha [G]

Rudolf Flesch and A. H. Lass write in a very interesting book on English composition:

"If You read nothing but good writing, Your writing will automatically improve."

"Guru" Khushwant Singh however wrote that reading poor writing can be useful because you can then see the difference between good writing and poor writing.

I can extrapolate this to see that it applies to every field: by observing TRASH, you can see the difference with QUALITY achieved by years of sincere sustained practice.

A BEAUTIFUL POEM

A beautiful long poem in English by an Indian poet is a long collection of passages from The Ramayana in English by the Indian poet Romesh Dutta (which may be the pen name of a female poet) which is contained in WISDOM OF INDIA edited by the well-known Chinese-American writer Lin Yutang, published by the Indian publisher Jaico, which I purchased many years ago, and still have in My personal library. What a beautiful poem in contrast to today's trash! Nowadays, every Tom, Dick, and Harry writes trash poetry.

I wrote the following [slightly edited] immature hand-written poem for the university wall magazine when I was studying M.Sc. Physics at Dibrugarh University many years ago:

LOVE

Love is listening to the silent wireless waves from your beloved.

Love is thinking about monogamy and polygamy and harem-building and celibacy.

Love is gazing at the star-filled sky and thinking of deep, eternal love.

Love is scoffing at Miss Worlds and Miss Universes.

Love is pretending you don't love!

Kishalay Sinha [G]