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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
Memories of Iran You were sleeping the slumber of ages When I first saw you Behind virtue’s veil Folds caressed by zephyrs Of a golden past I loved to watch you sleeping, then My innocence and yours Reposing […]
Ghosts (The eternal pain of Exile) On the windswept plains of ancient Pars Ghosts stir from half a century’s slumber: Persian valleys, blossom-heavy boughs And Khayyam’s whispering, silver streams Persian winds scent Seychelles nights with perfumes from another life Long-forgotten […]
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.
