RonPrice
Writer

Last night I watched the story of Magellan and then wrote the following prose-poem. It’s a personal statement, a personal reflection on the last 5 millennia....Ron in Australia
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Four hundred years(1519 to 1919) after Ferdinand Magellan and 237 men left Seville(1) and began the first successful attempt of humankind to circumnavigate the globe, ‘Abdu’l-Baha’s Tablets of the Divine Plan were unveiled in New York. The early 16th century is generally

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The Sydney Harbour Bridge opened on 19 March 1932. Another bridge closed in the Baha’i World four months later. The last remnant of the Heroic Age, the treasured Remnant of Baha’u’llah, Bahiyyih Khanum, passed to the Great Beyond.(1) The date was 15 July 1932. The Baha’is refer to her as the Greatest Holy Leaf. She was the eldest daughter of Bahá’u’lláh, the Founder of the Baha’i Faith. She is seen by the Baha’i community as one of the greatest women who have ever lived. In some ways she was,

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The Diary of Anne Frank was published on 12 June 1952 and it has now sold more than 30 million copies. The introduction to this book was written by the wife of a former President of the United States, Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt. That introduction reads in part:

"Written by a young girl—and the young are not afraid of telling the truth—it is one of the wisest and most moving commentaries on war and its impact on human beings that I have ever read. Anne Frank’s account

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“Man may be, in a figurative sense, in prison but he has also been given a large bunch of keys and several files. The fundamental and undeniable fact about the imagination is that its purpose is to intensify the life in man.” So wrote the prolific English writer Colin Wilson (1931-).(1)

His book is, he says, “a study of the inaccuracies of the imagination, because the inaccuracies of different imaginations tend to cancel one another out, and what is left is a perception

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My literary activity on the world-wide-web is a personal and quite industrious enterprize. When I can find the time, I am engaged in creating across this global internet a tapestry or a jig-saw puzzle of poetry and prose. At this site, readers will find my website as well as one of my many journals, diaries, blogs or just a series of posts in the sub-sections of this place on the internet. Site administrators and moderators have different ways in which they allow writers like myself to place their

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