I salute you Ahimsa. I was beside the bed of my dying father and I was a teen at that time. His last words before getting into a coma was "fight against the war against the Law ".

Besides her interrogation of the human condition, We Do Not Part shares a motif – the use of the colour white -- with another of her works, The White Book, a prose poem on grief about her ...

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Sappho (the poetess) and Alcaeus. What are the top poems inspired by ancient Greece? Credit: Wikimedia Commons / Walters Museum Poetry stands as one of humanity’s oldest art ...

Poems about anxiety and depression recur, as do those about wanting to be free of obligations. “Loving badly,” as she calls it, is another great subject: wanting someone close then pushing ...

Public domain via Wikimedia Commons When the New York Evening Mirror published Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “The Raven” on January 29, 1845, it catapulted both the work and its author to instant fame.