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Workshop
# 4
Simple Dreams
Open your eyes
What is it that you see?
Is it your likeness
or mine?
What would you like it to be?
Does my lavishment lack
where yours sparkles?
Don't look to me
for your flamboyant fanciful delight.
For I am a man of but meager means,
treasuring all I can along the way.
See this bit of silver in my hand?
It has survived countless generations.
This evergreen coat covering these old bones?
Given to me by my father...
on the day of his unfortunate death.
He was a great man.
I am sitting here
just enjoying the skies.
So much sky.
Endless you might say.
My heart swells
at the sight of the geese
flying their southern dream.
It's the simple dreams
that make you realize
imagination can be reality.
Meadows, horses;
Flitting butterflies, soaring eagles;
Such things are simple dreams.
The imagination of God.
Reality in a pinch of thought.
The winking of an eye
was all these dreams took.
Isn't a dream an extended wink?
Ha! Got you to think.
Possibilities are always there.
Dream and I will be with you.
Imagine and your heart will grow.
It all depends on what you want inside.
What the heart desires can be reality.
Just wish and swirl those fanciful delights.
Breathe the breath of life
into the beautiful thing you have created.
Rolling plains, tender embraces;
flowing streams, happy times at Christmas;
It's the simple dreams
that spark the imagination
to create life's reality.
You look famished.
Go to sleep
and remember me in your dreams.
– Joseph Allen Reddy
December 11, 2000
Workshop # 4
Poetry
A Mute Audience – Pavalamani Pragasam
Beast of Burden –
Subhajit Ghosh
Dignity – Hillol Ray
Don't Laugh on Other's Life – Vivek Saxena
Elected Silence! Talk to Me! – Seema Banerjee
Low on Green – Cynthia Proctor
Musings of the Mind – Bijal Dwivedi
Passing Life in Stride – Ahmed Tanhaa
Poor Man – Gummadi Venkata Reddy
Simple Dreams – Joseph Allen Hardy
Thanksgiving – B.K. Swaminathan
The Diary of a Relic – Smitha V
The Moment of Silence – Seema Banerjee
The Obsolete – Meenakshi Jha
The Runner – Hecletia
The Stare – Nicholas LaMattina
The Wait – MaryAnn Harrison
These Eyes – Helena Fernz
Your Eyes – Pili Pubul
Articles/Stories
A Simple
Wish by Anton Piskac
Bondage
by Vasudevan Raghavan
Contented
Life by Pavalamani Pragasam
Dear Writer by Ramendra Kumar
Empty Nest
by Subhajit Ghosh
Karishma Kapoor in Benegal's Rainiya by Chitra
Parayath
Musings
on a Rare Friday Evening by Radhika Ramaswamy
Point and Click by Maalok
Rains by Tyr Anon
Rains of Realization by Bijal Dwivedi
So Babuji by Ashish Nangia
The Cycle of Life by Dr. CS Shah
The Last Photograph by Subrata Mukherjee
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