About Poetry · Writing

Life is Full and In Between

Life is Full and In Between - A Poem by Ama Danesi A full day of will and grace. The empty tank and the ten-dollar bill draws our eyes up to inscribe hoops on tear-stained heavens. The extra virgin's cry is heard and mine is, a tad muffled. Unwrap life's suffocating gift, or stay terrified of… Continue reading Life is Full and In Between

Shorts · Writing

Inside the Actor’s Studio – My Take

This is a great prompt on a day that reads like a list - 11/12/13. So here is my take. Someday he'll ask me these questions personally :) It'll be good to look back and see if I would change any of my answers. Inside the Actor’s Studio On the interview show Inside the Actors’… Continue reading Inside the Actor’s Studio – My Take

Real Life · Writing

About That Parable of Talents

About that Parable of Talents - People are Depending on Us! I got a message from a family in desperate need and I was so sad that I couldn’t just write out a check for the exact amount to help them out. It got me thinking...how long have I been dancing around the bonfire instead… Continue reading About That Parable of Talents

About Poetry

All For The Perfect Name

  I could have called myself Maya -- माया māyā Supernatural being of wisdom and power, an unfathomable plan, a detachment from incomplete fragments of reality, like a brief, disturbed drop of water from unbounded waves. How I could attain to an illusion that both conceals & pierces the veil? I certainly had the consonants… Continue reading All For The Perfect Name

Shorts

Women..we kind of run this thing!

There is a severe dearth of grown-ups in homes, in politics, in the workplace..except of course, when a woman is in charge. In American politics, we have the men, all up in the uterus, still having no clue, what goes on in there. The fact that these governors, representatives and senators safely incubated in one for about… Continue reading Women..we kind of run this thing!