{"author":"A.A. Patawaran","author_id":"A.A.+Patawaran","total_quotes":16,"quotes":[{"text":"I crouch in cornersThe infection is widespreadLove epidemic.","author":"A.A. Patawaran","tags":["haiku","love","poetry","poetry"],"id":3382,"author_id":"A.A.+Patawaran"},{"text":"And because the world is too big and time is too short and you only have one life to live, read!","author":"A.A. Patawaran","tags":["life-and-living","reading-books","time","writing-inspiration"],"id":12392,"author_id":"A.A.+Patawaran"},{"text":"But the sun will rise the day after tomorrowA millennium without us silences our last echoTo tiny fragments even our plastics are reducedIn Eden Reincarnate all life but ours is renewed.","author":"A.A. Patawaran","tags":["apocalypse","climate-change","poetry","poetry"],"id":38861,"author_id":"A.A.+Patawaran"},{"text":"I exaggerateThere is a lie in my truthLook! My soul is blue.","author":"A.A. Patawaran","tags":["haiku","poems","poetry","poetry"],"id":67178,"author_id":"A.A.+Patawaran"},{"text":"I can't remember the poemThat pierced through my heartIt was the saddest I heardOf all truths ever spokenIt left a scar in meA wound that doesn't healBut the words are forgottenSo is a big part of me.","author":"A.A. Patawaran","tags":["poetry","poetry","reading"],"id":99165,"author_id":"A.A.+Patawaran"},{"text":"Write in pictures. With your words, let the reader see not letters, but images. Be specific about every detail, but don't describe it--make it happen on the page, if you were writing fiction, or make it happen over again, if you were writing about history or some recent event.","author":"A.A. Patawaran","tags":["storytelling","writing","writing-fiction","writing-history"],"id":109382,"author_id":"A.A.+Patawaran"},{"text":"The heart is a repository of emotions--real, imagined, and invented, owned and borrowed, past, present, future--and there in your chest, operating at an average of 80 beats per minute at rest, is a heart that has stories to tell.","author":"A.A. Patawaran","tags":["storytelling","writing"],"id":133882,"author_id":"A.A.+Patawaran"},{"text":"Does my soul sufferWhen my body breaks downWhen I feel mortalWhen my body is weakDoes the soul rejoiceThe end is near.","author":"A.A. Patawaran","tags":["immortality","poetry","poetry"],"id":139428,"author_id":"A.A.+Patawaran"},{"text":"Blank pages are cruelPure torture in white or beigeBut how else to start.","author":"A.A. Patawaran","tags":["haiku","poem","poetry","poetry","writing"],"id":150590,"author_id":"A.A.+Patawaran"},{"text":"No music in the raindropsNo clouds with silver liningTorrents of sorrowsHorror in streams.","author":"A.A. Patawaran","tags":["climate-change","poetry","poetry"],"id":201227,"author_id":"A.A.+Patawaran"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":16,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}