Ratna Rao's Site

The sun-photographer

It is this luminosity, my dear,
Of the gilded leaves in the sun
The magic eye promptly catches
A silver flicker, a yellow transience.
A palliative to the chemical pain
In variously knotted entrails and
The reddish tinge in eye-whites.

Office Entertainment

  A senior bureaucrat in a public sector organization was asked if he was willing to take the very attractive V.R.S. option as he had just 5 years to go for retirement. He thought about it for a day and returned the next day to... more

Previous blog entries:
Mar 28	-	Rockscape of Bhimbetika
Mar 28	-	The magnificent ruins of Hampi
Mar 26	-	The Splendour of Nature

"The Second Coming"- a poem by W.B.Yeats

"The second coming" by W.B.Yeats

TURNING and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere... more

Previous reviews:
Apr 3	-	A critical commentary on the poem "Along the sun-drenched roadside" by Rainer Maria Rilke