Ovid; Romantic poet from Rome *** 97

Ovid was a poet during the 'classical age' of Rome when Augustes ruled. He wrote a number of books with verses. His'Art of love` is a stand out verse. Ovid describes love and allows the reader to infer about rape with his verses on the `Gaze.` Ovid was of the view that a rape can only commence after a man gazes at a woman. A gaze by a man in which he takes stock of the woman for carnal knowledge is the beginning of rape. Ovid himself does not describe the rape in his verses, but as a master poet leaves it to the imagination of the reader. This is classical poetry and proves that Ovid was a master of the verse. His other works are  Heroides, Amores and Ars Amatoria, and o Metamorphoses, 

Ovid was a poet during the reign of Augustus in Rome and wrote the "the art of love".Ovid wrote other works as well, but his forte was poetry and verse. There is no doubt he had the pulse of poetry creation in his grip. Ovid was perhaps a great lover himself. Ther is no doubt that to write love poetry an element of personal experience is always a great help. Ovid died at the age of perhaps 56 or 58. Despite a relatively short span Ovid is recognized as one of the great romantic poets from the classical age from Rom

A Bridge Too Far As North and South Korea Are Riven Apart

In 1953 an armistice was signed by the USA and its allies and the communist north along with China and a border was defined at the 38th parallel. This is known as the DMZ or demilitarized zone that is monitored by UN observers. On both sides, troops are amassed with the US having 28000 soldiers on the border. There is a lone bridge that joins the two Koreas and after I visited it, a thought crossed my mind that it is a bridge too far and in reality divides the two nations who have the same religion and are from the same racial stock.

Who is responsible? It's not an easy answer as the lines of division are so deep that the North, if threatened, can resort to a nuclear attack as well.The South leadership is to be faulted for dancing to the American tunes and allowing an escalation of tension by letting the US army install the THAAD missile system.

The USA is selective in choosing enemies and if they are big and strong then compromise and others? just bulldoze. If you don't have the means to defend yourself then you go to to the world of Hades like Saddam and Gaddafi. So there is a legitimate reason for the North led by Kim Jong-Un to have weapons for retaliation. My word ! if he didn't have a deterrent he would be giving company to Saddam and Gaddafi in Hades.

The future? It's a long and tough road and the key is with the US. I wonder they are planning a strike against the North and in the bargain, Korean Peninsula will be wiped out. That doesn't matter for the US president who in a private conversation is reported to have said; if there is a war it's THEY who will die and not the US. Strange logic.

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I am Tickled to have a Viewership of 2.6 million on Wikinut.com

Something to Remember
 Yesterday my secretary came to me and told me that she had checked and I had crossed a viewership of 2.6 million on Wikinut.  There are no payments now, fine, but this achievement is by itself a source of great satisfaction. I have loved 3 things in my life in no particular order, women, cars, and writing. The first two dovetail into the last and has led to my novel" Romance of the Frontier". I started writing on Wikinut a few years back and slowly but surely the views from a trickle grew up. Now even when I write seldom on this site, yet I still garner over 1200 views a day.  Wikinut is a fine site and one sincerely hopes it does not pack up. I think it could, however, take a learning lesson from some new sites like Blastingnews.com

  Fond memories
 Great writers came and some went away.One man who is missing, who wrote prodigiously earlier is V Paulose. I wonder where he is? Steve Kinsmen is another whose name along with Carolina must be mentioned. There has hardly been a moderation and I am thankful that an article on the painter Coubert with his painting was published on this site. It's been great innings all through.
  Last Word 

Life moves on and Khalil Gibran wrote" the moving finger writes and life goes on, never to come back" is so very true. The years with Wikinut is something that will be a part of my life. It is a great pleasure to interact with the writers, many of who are still writing on this site. But one does wish that the writing site thinks ahead and tunes up. It cant go on and  become moribund. It has a great base and maybe a bright spark may still come.