Dinesh Sairam

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An aspiring poet from the shady regions of Southern India. Inspired by the capital-G Great poets like William Shakespeare, Matuso Basho, Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Wordsworth, John Keats, Robert Frost, Rabindhranath Tagore, EE Cummings, DH Lawrence and many other post-modern Poets.





A good friend, with a cheeky sense of humor. I usually don't socialize that much, but I'm not socially awkward either. And I read a LOT of books (All genres, but I mostly avoid Fiction)! In that kind of sense, you can call me a nerd. I have a love-hate relationship with my gym, though I always love a good night's sleep and refreshing nature walks. Shortly, in a way of saying, I take life as it comes.






A finance student by profession and a PC gamer; Quasi-traditional and a sucker for good music. A huge Michael Jackson fan. Other than that, The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Sting, Iron & Wine, Adele, Ilayaraja and AR Rahman mostly cover my interest.





I started off with writing as a means of fending off boredom, but it gradually grew into a passion. Poetry, I believe, is a self-content search for beauty in the simplest aspect of things.





I usually work on rhyme and rhythm. I would like to think that I'm mostly a romantist and seldom a naturalist, who writes modern verse. My favorite genres are nature, love and memoir. I also write short stories very rarely.







My Works are published in the following Books. Please buy them (And I sure would love feed-backs @ dineshssairam@gmail.com) :





My works are also featured on several journals including Arizona Statue University's Literary Magazine and website, Canyon Voices, The Other Herald ('Elements', Issue 51) and Carty's Poetry Journal (IV and V editions).





Writers' Cafe has done a lot to my Poetry life. I've evolved and changed as a Man and a Poet; I've made friends, enemies, found good critiques, realized bad comments and everything else- And I can say, I'm still enjoying it (Save for the infamous server break-downs of WC)!





As for my part in Writer's Cafe, apart from being a poet and writer, I'm a cold-eyed critic. I get complaints on lots of my reviews; but I strongly believe pointing out the negatives and/or suggesting corrections is an important duty of a good critique (And I expect the same for reviews I get). At the same time, if your writing is good, I won't hold back my appreciation and will probably add it to my favorites (I don't rate or allow ratings for my works; I'm not a fan of WC's Rating System).





A poem is never finished, only abandoned. ~ Paul Valery.

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. ~ Robert Frost.

(Poetry is) a mirror which makes something beautiful, which in truth is distorted. ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley.

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. ~ Thomas Stearns Eliot.

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality. ~ Edgar Allen Poe.

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings. ~ William Wordsworth.

Ink runs from the corners of my mouth. There is no happiness like mine. I have been eating poetry. ~ Mark Strand.

Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes. ~ Joseph Roux.

A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses. ~ Jean Cocteau.

My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk. ~ John Keats.

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