This site is dedicated to my family, friends and all those whom I've met in my course of life....since my interactions with you have given me the content for my Poetry. I am a Real person with Real strengths and weaknesses like any Real human being and these are reflected in my Poetry. The content of my Poetry is a combination of my life experiences as well as the experiences of others. Like myself, my writing is Real and does not contain fantasy, vain imaginations or superfluous emotion. I hope these pages make you smile, reminise, ponder, and encourage a reasonable measure of introspection. It is my utmost desire to share my writing with you so you could be entertained and edified.
"Human beings are grateful....sometimes! Human beings are genuine....sometimes! Human beings are loyal....sometimes! Human beings are generous....sometimes! Human beings are faithful....sometimes! Only The Master is timeless"!
CISSLYN RAMDEO
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Men grind and grind in the mill of truism, and nothing comes out but what was put in. But the moment they desert the tradition for a spontaneous thought, then poetry, wit, hope, virtue, learning anecdote all flock to their aid. RALPH WALDO EMERSON
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Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as none else ever works. ALEXANDRE DUMAS
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Two roads diverged in the wood, and I took the one less travelled by, and that has made all the difference. ROBERT FROST
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Some of my favourite books and authors
Man Watching (non verbal communication) By Desmond Morris ~ ~ ~ Pulling Your Strings By Dr. Wayne Dyer ~ ~ ~ The Road Less Travelled By M.D. Scott Peck ~ ~ ~ Princess Daisy By Judith Krantz ~ ~ ~ Games People Play By Eric Berne ~ ~ ~ The Prophet By Kahlil Gibran ~~~
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Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary. RALPH WALDO EMERSON
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This above all to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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He who binds to himself a joy does the winged life destroy; but he who kisses the joy as it flies lives in eternity's sunrise. WILLIAM BLAKE (1757-1827) ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ * ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ All music, sauces, feasts, delights, and pleasures, games, dancing, arts, consist in governed measures; much more do words and passions of the mind in temperance their sacred beauty find. THOMAS TRAHERNE (1636-1674)
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CHARACTER OF A HAPPY LIFE BY HENRY WOTTON(1568-1639)
How happy is he born and taught that serveth not another's will; whose amour is his honest thought and simple truth his utmost skill! ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Whose passions not his masters are, whose soul is still prepared for death, not tied unto the world with care of public fame, or private breath; ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Who envies none that chance doth raise, or vice; who never understood how deepest wounds are given by praise, nor rules of state, but rules of good. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Who hath his life from rumours freed, whose conscience is his strong retreat; whose state can neither flatters feed, nor ruin make oppressors great; ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Who God doth late and early pray more of his grace than gifts to lend; and entertains the harmless day with a well-chosen book or friend; ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ This man is freed from servile bands of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, and having nothing, yet hath all.
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Of all those arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well. JOHN SHEFFIELD
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Long is the way and hard, that out of hell leads up to life. JOHN MILTON
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Life is suffering. The four techniques of suffering for a disciplined life are acceptance of responsibility, balancing, dedication to truth and delaying of gratification. M.D. SCOTT PECK (The Road Less Travelled)
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Some of my favourite poems
~~~Silence By Marianne Moore(1887-?)
~~~Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
\By Dylan Thomas(1914-1953)
~~~Sweet Neglect By Ben Jonson(1572-1637)
~~~A Thing Of Beauty By John Keats(1795-1821)
~~~Leisure By William Henry Davies(1871-1940)
~~~Love From "Sonnets From The Portuguese"
\By Elizabeth Barrett Browning(1806-1861)
~~~Delight In Disorder By Robert Herrick(1591-1674)
~~~The Sonnet By Phillip Sidney(16th C.)
~~~An Essay On Criticism By Alexander Pope
~~~Ars Poetica(The Art of Poetry)
\By Archibald MacLeish
~~~The Sonnet 138 By William Shakespeare
~~~Fragment By Percy Bysshe Shelly(1792-1822)
~~~Injunction By William Blake(1757-1827)
~~~Poetry By Marianne Moore(1887-?)
~~~Auguries of Innocence By William Blake(1757-1827)
~~~The Road Not Taken By Robert Frost
HAPPY READING!
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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. ALEXANDER POPE
