Author Archives: montecyril

It is true that power corrupts  From its throes strife erupts.  Those that are endowed with this mortal gift  Should for peace and prosperity always lift  Not to use it for disparity and go tellingly adrift  With war and callousness, thus only causing rift  To use influence and greatness for resounding goodness  Is the callingContinue reading “Power: A poem “

The joy you gave us   was tremendous  Filled us with so much cheer  As we shed a mighty tear  at your passing.  That your ceaseless spirit of love  was a gift from the God above  O little soul that you should find   A greater paradise than you left behind  That is worth muchContinue reading “Phoenix: An epitaph “

Sri Lanka’s current bitter debt crisis was the topic of discussion at the annual spring meeting of global financial leaders in Washington under the auspices of the World Bank and IMF last month (April 2022).  Sri Lanka is ridden with a debilitating debt crisis, that has resulted in an acute shortage of foreign currency, whichContinue reading “China’s insidious debt-traps; and how to rule the world “

Growing up amid the love of siblings  The joy of sharing and the well-fared tidings  Tender years in the open playing fields  Blessings of childhood that innocence yields  And those calming dawns at the breezy beach  Uncaring and free, for the stars to reach  Dad’s open-heartedness, Mum’s love and duty  Untrammeled happiness that was ourContinue reading “Sisters: A poem “

With Pakistan recently (in April 2022) conducting a series of airstrikes in Afghanistan’s border districts of Kunar and Khost, relations between Pakistan and the Taliban have nosedived. At least 47 people have been killed in the Pakistani airstrikes in Afghanistan’s eastern border areas, prompting an acrimonious response from the Taliban.  Taliban has fulminated against Pakistan’s newly-formedContinue reading “Taliban-Pakistan: The long honeymoon seems over “

He who casts a spell  In evil does he dwell  Staking a claim on everything  And also to the rood and ring  And leaves the good prince with nothing  Not even his heart-felt wishing  Everyone fears the evil wizard  For his spells are a mighty hazard  Pain and suffering in the wake  He reaches outContinue reading “The evil wizard and the good prince: A poem “

What indeed sets the human race apart  What haunts it, what is truest to its heart  Dreams and aspirations guide it to much progress  But a surfeit of these is only a decadent regress  Because when greed sets in, injustice reigns  The snare of lust is what causes man to deign  Coveting what is notContinue reading “Greed: A poem “

China has denigrated the move by the United Kingdom (UK), the United States (US) and Australia to co-operate on hypersonic weapons under the trilateral alliance AUKUS.  Australia’s Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce said it is exigent that the country builds its defences as quickly as possible to counter an increasingly aggressive China, with hypersonic weapons creatingContinue reading “China: expansion for itself, rhetoric for others’ “

When one has paid one’s debt  Perhaps, it’s time for death.  How to reckon with the sorrows when the time has come  That memories and tears will linger in the minds of some  Yet life’s little blessings were in truly caring and sharing  To be a beacon of love and in so unswervingly doing  Shining theContinue reading “When death comes: A poem “

It could be roses all the way for a modern-day Valentine to woo his lady love. But the ordinary local Jimmy would hardly relish the pangs of anxiety he’d go through before he sought the approval of the woman in question. And it would be anyone’s guess if he’d actually hail the wedding aisle after that. Continue reading “The mar-age of marriage: Just for laughs “