PREMAKEERTI DE ALWIS

Breath your voice to those nightingales Breath your voice to those nightingales, so they may sing sweeter Offer your cheeks to the pink lotus overwhelming the pond, so they look still more rosier  Let the jewels hold the sparkle of your eyes tight, so those may shine brighter  share your vermilion lips with the tender leaf of Ironweed, so those may stay lovelier Pour your tears upon the flowing stream, so its waves may not fade Allow the breeze absorb the soothing sizzle of your laughter Hold your deep blue hair behind the clouds, so those may gain a better shade Let the turf take a leaf from your tender feet, so they...

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ILIAD

His mind fluttered; his fingers almost trembled. He was only eight years old & the epic narration of a war that had lasted no less than a decade held him, gripping tightly, at once with a pain and a pleasure in an unbearable state of being. Unbearable, for the reason, now it praises the gallantry of a hero; then it weeps at the death of the opponent of the hero. He sighs with relief when the hero makes a herculean effort to recover from the relentless assault and deals a mortal blow at his opponent in the nick of time; then he sighs again in sorrow when the darkness of death falls upon the opponent of his hero, for he too was somebody’s...

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Writer Vs. His Work

Writer Vs. His Work  Being compiled by bunpeiris Principle of Impersonality as supreme in all arts. Like God in the universe, the writer should be omnipresent in his work but never visible. Gustave Flaubert http://en.nkfu.com/gustave-flaubert-quotes/ As we know, there is often a great difference between the man & the writer. The writer may be bitter, harsh & brutal while the man be so meek & mild that he wouldn’t say boo to a goose. Somerset Maugham: The kite Literature, literary creation, is not distinct or separable, for me, from the rest of the man…. I may taste a work, but it is difficult for me to judge it independently...

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21 DECEMBER 2012

21 DECEMBER 2012. Being written by bunpeiris Call it Armageddon, Apocalypse Now, The End of the World, The Day After, The Heart of Darkness, Mad Max Clockwork Orange Bushido Days or even 21 December 2012 or whatever term you dare to name the ultimate natural, man-made or alien-inflicted (once upon a time in the future, they would wage war against us for our water in Antarctica, wouldn’t they?) cataclysmic transformation of the planet earth. But then to learn Mayan Hababa calendar [365.242036] conceived 2500 years ago, is more accurate than the Gregorian calendar [365.2425] gives you goose bumps. Worse still, to get to know...

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OUTBOUND LINKS

SEO [SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION]OF YOUR WEBSITE How do I check on outbound web-links out of my website to some other websites? While inbound links of same niche, same trade, same field as yours are of course, advantageous to your website, the unwarranted outbound links from your website to other website that’s not of your niche, its goes without saying, wouldn’t do much good for the health of your website and in turn, yours. As such, it would do world of good, to get know on the double, should there be outbound links out of your website. Of course, there are many free & payable web tools to check the existence of outbound links. There...

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Writers Vs Humanity

WRITERS Vs. HUMANITY    Being compiled by bunpeiris I am just a chronicler. My passion is to discover and to write about it. Tom Wolfe, Time 13th February 1989 Ah, what an age it is! When to speak of trees is almost crime For it is a kind of silence against injustice To Posterity: Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) “To Posterity” about Germany under the Nazis I’m torn, as I believe Brecht was in the poem. I’m angry, that we have so perverted the world that on one level it does feel ‘almost a crime’ 'to speak about trees’. I am angry that we have made injustice so massive, complex and ubiquitous that to speak, or even...

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