Some more original poetry.
Just the teasing tips of the leaves shimmering so well, visible
Outside my window makes my mind’s eye
Want to trace its resting branches all the way
To the trunk further down to the root; ’tis futile
I know those will be replaced leaves tomorrow like
The lesson I tried to teach you–
To love [...]

The following is my rather presumptuous professional credo.

Love your job and if possible, your company.
Get the job done, titles subserve the job you do.
When trouble erupts, focus on resolving it instead of looking to blame.
If the work environment sucks, try to enliven it, then live with it, else get out quickly!
Critique the work, not the [...]

From the New Yorker, this little gem.

Ever since I stumbled upon it in the pages of my high-school Latin textbook, I have loved the phrase sub rosa. Literally, it means “under the rose.” In Greek mythology, Eros gave Harpocrates, the god of silence, a rose to prevent knowledge of his mother’s impropriety from spreading. Similarly, [...]

A friend forwarded this to me. Notice the encircled items in the picture.

My good friend, Vittal wrote a short one in response to my earlier poem. His poem concludes with
Your poem, sir, is murky as the tide…
I think I understand it
But the answer eludes me.
Whether he had it in his mind when he wrote these lines I don’t know, but his last line compelled me to paste [...]

Some original poetry. Comments welcome, and criticism solicited.
Seawaves never recede, they deceive
By their seductive lull, they shift
And swim a far retreat to recoup their liquid dock and
On unpredicted idyllic noontide or yawning night,
Spurt forth from the center of unfrozen oblivion
And lash the shores repeatedly with liquid whippings like
Buried memories of unavenged affronts,
[...]

Or Minimalism Revisited. Here, in the words of the cult-setting, trend-changing, style-altering, and language-redefining master of prose:
If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly [...]