मेरो अक्षर

  - Bhanu Bhakta Bista When bulbs are dead candles wake up pushing the darkness away to the corners at the backdrop and there wake my hopes and sensations up - alive... Darkness is like a dictator - a great chancer When light rules it hides somewhere around or just underneath the bed; as if defeated secretly colonizing the unseen and unvisited And as chance befriends re-establishes its kingdom. With a little candle in my hand I believe I can stand sovereign  guarded by the pillars of knowledge I've accumulated so far, But fear intervenes at times if it happens like the candle that dies out after a few hours of its survival. Sometimes - in these hours of silence candles reflect me in themselves and there I see  hopes still flickering on the walls of life...

  "This Is Just To Say"                                                            - William Carlos Williams I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving for breakfast Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so cold About the Poem William Carlos Williams wrote a quick note to his wife one morning, a 'passing gesture', and stuck it on the refrigerator before heading off to work. The note turned out to be a very short poem,  "This Is Just To Say" , and became one of his most popular creations when it was published in 1934. The poem takes about 20 seconds to recite, has no regular rhythm or syllabic count, no rhyme, and lacks any punctuation, other than line breaks. It is true to the poetic philosophy that Williams championed; away with convention, free the line, writ...