Poetry
Poetry: Partners of the soul
Relieved we didn’t complicate it in that way And kept a golden friendship anyway Free from the mundanities that fuel our strife And, all too often, become our Life * Whoever said “there are those we marry… and those we love” […]
Hafez poetry
مزرع سبز فلک دیدم و داس ماه نو I spied the spangled field of stars And the sickle of the moon فکر از کشث خیش امد و هنگام درو Thoughts turned to the harvest of my life And to its […]
Poem: Return of the Native – Egbert Ollmann
Salt of the Earth Traveller So very far from home African adventures in a battered car Exploring a world gentler than ours Winds of destiny brought you, tumbling, to these shores On a boat that breathed its last On Praslin’s […]
The boy at the window
What seems like a very distant 50 years ago, a young boy stood for the very first time at the south-facing bedroom window of the Priston Mill farmhouse, gazing in wonder at the bucolic scene spread before him like a […]
Gazing back through Time’s veil to a distant life in my beloved Iran, I can still catch the sound of Dodi’s unique, irrepressible laughter, ringing through Saadabad’s beautiful gardens as eloquent testament to her infectious love of life and wonderful […]
Poetry: Acid on the Tree
Of all the things in this wide world The saddest is to see Someone who’s drunk from Friendship’s bough Pouring acid on the tree It was like walking through a leafy, garden lane To the perfect, perfumed bower When, […]
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The Seychelles-based Burridge is, in reality, a writer and a legendary figure in these parts. He sports a trim goatee and a fugitive grin. The bespectacled author is also a tourism consultant and freelance copywriter. The compelling nature of his narrative imparts an aura of mystery to his persona and his tales.
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