Infatuations lose their heat,
Adorations are not meant to last;
Not long after the two first meet
Quickened heartbeats belong to the past.
But my passion for you increases
With each passing day.
I hear your footsteps: my heart ceases
to be …

How can I study?
I am twenty.
And in love.
The weather is enchanting.
Life is beautiful, inviting.
And here I am,
Cooped up in my room,
Sitting at a table full of books.
Fresh air blows in from the window
And blows out …

I had stopped believing in fairy tales
Or hoping that dreams would come true,
Or making a wish on a falling star:
But that was before I met you.
I used to believe in love that’s divine;
Romance and passion …

As long as you love me
Life is beautiful.
Of deep joy sweet will be
The cup of life full.
As long as you love me
I am never alone.
You are ever with me:
Wherever you may roam.
As long as you …

I remember the time when we first became friends,
How wonderful life was then!
Those days were were together
Like two happy children.
Every day was full of laughter,
Every moment spent together was bliss:
And now that we have to …

It’s raining. A sheer misty curtain made of tiny droplets stands between my window and the world. If I look hard enough, I can almost see past the ugly buildings and the far-away hills into …

The Middleman was recommended to me by a writer I admire. I am grateful to him: without his recommendation I was likely to miss it completely.
The book is set in Calcutta in the 1970s, but …

Like most sequels, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs does not live up to the earlier Ice Age movies. In my opinion, the movies have been descending the scale, with the original Ice Age being …

A conversation with a friend the other day set me thinking about Jane Eyre. I loved the book when I first read it as a teenager, and still love many things about it. Apart from …

There has been no power since morning, and no water. It is Saturday, and she has a late class to teach. But how is she to make lunch with no running water, with just one …