And I shrunk those 24 minutes into 5 minutes and 10 lessons for you. — “Do not judge me by my success, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.” –Nelson Mandela When you google define:resilience, the Lexico (Oxford) dictionary brings up two definitions for the word resilience. 1. the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness. 2. the ability…

A prose poem — The never-ending clarion knocking on the old rusty front gate forced the old slumberless man to come out of his warm bed, and walked through the stygian darkness of the night, crossing the deserted gardens of his abandoned castle — which once had blithe spirits and echoed bosky scents and blooms of spring. Trying…

31 morae — tenebrous mornings, wet refulgent afternoons, stygian evenings — like a bipolar lover; the wonted Melbourne winter!

Polyglot poem in English, Urdu, and Romanised Urdu (for Hindi Readers) — English I was kind you took it for granted I gave my everything to you you took it for granted I did for you what others wouldn’t you took it for granted I didn’t leave you when others did you took it for granted I shared honest feedback what others couldn’t you took…

A love poem — Today as I turned 80, my queen having you with me I still feel 19 Your tired eyes are very green telling stories of all those places where you and I have been Your heavenly touch reminds me I’m alive and I love you very much Your lips still taste…

A ‘Manager and Employee chat’ while working from home — Characters in this conversation are fictional, and no, this did not happen to me. Manager (types this to his ‘subordinate’ on a chat tool around 4 PM): - Did you check the email I sent you? - (calls the employee, who doesn’t pick up) - Hey, why are you not responding? - It’s…