Songbirds sing, must I be silent?
When I pray, will my spring come?
When will I be like a swallow -
Singing forth, no longer dumb?

CoolAvenues introduces this new section for all those written words that bring glad tidings to the heart... and for not so glad ones too. Bringing forth this section to provide just another platform, this time to those who write in prose - at times lines that make a happy smile flit across our faces, at others plunge us deep into the deep, dark, gloomy recesses of our heart, and at yet other times, just giving us food for introspection, searching for those never-answered questions... But all the time adding something to our lives, something savouring, something worthwhile.

The latest offerings go like this: -

• New!   The Man at Last! - by Amar Ranu
• New!   Me, Myself - by Amar Ranu
• New!   The Burial of Love - by Lord Alfred Tennyson
• New!   The Sign-Post - by Edward Thomas
• New!   Skipping Highly - by Ministhy Dileep
• The Forest Reverie - by Edgar Allan Poe
• Ice & Fire - by Edmund Spenser
• Peace - by George Herbert
• Roses and Rue - by Oscar Wilde
• Wind & Window Flower - by Robert Frost
• Farewell to Love - by Michael Drayton
• The Lake - by Edgar Allen Poe
• Flower of Love - by Oscar Wilde
• I Carry Your Heart With Me - by E. E. Cummings
• O Mistress Mine - by William Shakespeare
• I Loved You - by Alexander Pushkin
• Spring - by Thomas Nashe
• Madonna of the Evening Flowers - by Amy Lowell
• The Leader To Be - by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
• The Garden of Love - by William Blake
• A Day Dream - by Emily Jane Brontë
• I Dwell in Possibility - by Emily Dickinson
• An Old Road - by Edwin Markham
• The Battle’s On! - by Kisholoy Roy
• A Happy New Year - by Margaret E. Sangster
• A Christmas Carol - by Christina Georgina Rossetti
• Winter-Time - by Robert Louis Stevenson
• I Am Not in the Rat Race!!! - by Anu Veluri
• Take, Oh Take Those Lips Away - by John Fletcher
• Song, from An Evening's Love - by John Dryden
• Constancy - by John Wilmot
• Where Lies the Land to Which the Ship Would Go - by Arthur Hugh Clough
• Winter Song - by Wilfred Owen
• To Celia - by Benjamin Jonson
• October - by Robert Frost
• GOD - by Anu Veluri
• Life - by Charlotte Brontë
• Music, When Soft Voices Die - by Percy Bysshe Shelley
• A Dream Within A Dream - by Edgar Allan Poe
• Resurrected - by Anubhav Kushwaha
• Evening Solace - by Charlotte Brontë
• My Cross - by Robert William Service
• Acceptance - by Anu Veluri
• Bleeding Borders - by Anubhav Kushwaha
• When I Am Dead, My Dearest! - by Christina Georgina Rossetti
• We are Destined to Depart... - by Anu Veluri
• A Song from the Suds
• The Want for an Obsequy - by Anubhav Kushwaha
• My Tryst With Hope - by Anubhav Kushwaha
• God Moves in a Mysterious Way - by William Cowper
• Because I Could Not Stop for Death - by Emily Dickinson
• I Do Not Love You Except Because I Love You - by Pablo Neruda
• A Wish - by Matthew Arnold
• I Have a Rendezvous With Death - by Alan Seeger
• I Crave Your Mouth, Your Voice, Your Hair - by Pablo Neruda
• O Do Not Love Too Long - by William Butler Yeats
• The Autumn - by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• If You Forget Me - by Pablo Neruda
• Answered Prayers - by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
• Poem in October - by Dylan Thomas
• I Could Walk Backwards in Time - by Anubhav Kushwaha
• Friendship After Love - by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
• A Sunset of the City - by Gwendolyn Brooks
• Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night - by Dylan Thomas
• As You Go Through Life - by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
• Lament of the Frontier Guard - by Ezra Pound
• Dead Leaves - by Edward Booth Loughran
• I Am in Need of Music - by Elizabeth Bishop
• Sweet are the Thoughts that Savour of Content - by Robert Greene
• Sing To Me - by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
• Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal - by Lord Alfred Tennyson
• Joy - by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
• The Reverie of Poor Susan - by William Wordsworth
• Ring Out, Wild Bells - by Lord Alfred Tennyson
• Christmas Bells - by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways - by William Wordsworth
• The War With My Reflection - by Anubhav Kushwaha
• A Rope or a Reprieve ? - by Mohan Prasad
• Shed a Tear! - by Abhinav Iyer
• Bereavement - by Thomas Vaughan Jones
• The Mentor - by Abhinav Iyer
• Ascension - by Colleen Corah Hitchcock
• My Dear Mistress Has a Heart - by John Wilmot
• Miracles! - by Abhinav Iyer
• Time Flies by in Paranoid Whispers - by Anubhav Kushwaha
• The Song of Love - by Abhinav Iyer
• When Life is a Prayer - by Swagatika Nanda
• An Ode to Friendship - by Abhinav Iyer
• Agonies of Delight - by Anubhav Kushwaha
• Hand of God! - by Abhinav Iyer
• Ode to Henry Louis Vivian Derozio - by Remya Mohan
• LIFE - by Swagatika Nanda
• When Lovely Woman Stoops to Folly - by Oliver Goldsmith
• Strange Fits of Passion I Have Known - by William Wordsworth
• I am a Parcel of Vain Strivings Tied - by Henry David Thoreau
• The Fall - by Parthajeet Das
• No Coward Soul is Mine - by Emily Jane Brontë
• Ae Fond Kiss, and then We Sever - by Robert Burns
• Love's Deity - by John Donne
• Solitude - by Lord George Gordon Byron
• How Clear She Shines - by Emily Jane Brontë
• Remembrance - by Thomas Vaughan Jones
• In the Downhill of Life - by William Collins
• The Flower - by George Herbert
• A Psalm of Life - by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• The Chimney Sweeper - by William Blake
• Hap - by Thomas Hardy
• Success - by Bessie Anderson Stanley
• The Poppy - by Francis Thompson
• The Meadows in Spring - by Edward Fitzgerald
• The Rhodora - by Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Confined Love - by John Donne
• The Indian Serenade - by Percy Bysshe Shelley
• She was a Phantom of Delight - by William Wordsworth
• Reflections - by Remya Mohan
• Solace - by Thomas Vaughan Jones
• Cosmic Joy - by Remya Mohan
• A Leaf - by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
• Father and Daughter - by Remya Mohan
• O Captain! My Captain! - by Walt Whitman
• 'Tis the Set of the Sails - by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
• There Were Many Who Went in Huddled Procession - by Stephen Crane
• A Song of Success - by Robert William Service
• Picture Books in Winter - by Robert Louis Stevenson
• An Old Love Viewed By Candlelight - by Thomas Vaughan Jones
• The Poplar Field - by William Cowper
• I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud - by William Wordsworth
• Laughing Song - by William Blake
• To His Coy Love - by Michael Drayton
• October's Party - by George Cooper
• Adieu, Farewell Earth's Bliss - by Thomas Nashe
• He That Loves A Rosy Cheek - by Thomas Carew
• IF Only - by Abhishek Panda
• The Journey - by Thomas Vaughan Jones
• A Daughter of Eve - by Christina Rossetti
• When We Two Parted - by Lord George Gordon Byron
• Walk On - by Bimal Mehta
• Stars - by Emily Brontë
• Memories of Lost Days - by Ruchi Katiyar
• Lovin It - by Biswajit Mishra
• Being There - by Thomas Vaughan Jones
• An Acre Of Grass - by William Butler Yeats
• Ode to a Lost Friend - by Thomas Vaughan Jones
• You Are My Soul Personified!!! - by Vipin Arora
• If Forgetting You Was Easy... - Contributed by Anmol Singh
• The Heavenly War - by Aakash Gupta
• Hope - by Emily Jane Brontë
• Summer Shower - by Emily Dickinson
• How do I love thee? Let me count the ways - by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• A White Rose - by John Boyle O'Reilly
• Evening Star - by Edgar Allan Poe
• Into My Own - by Robert Frost
• Spring and Loneliness - by Aakash Gupta
• The Last Leaf - by Oliver Wendell Holmes
• Interest in Boredom - by Saumil Gopani
• Could We But Have The Clarity Of Fate - Contributed by Enigma
• Love's Labour - by Aakash Gupta
• It Couldn't Be Done - by Edgar Albert Guest
• In an Artist's Studio - by Christina Rossetti
• Success is Counted Sweetest - by Emily Dickinson
• Forever They Last... - Contributed by Anmol Singh
• Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening - by Robert Frost
• Tsunami - Life Goes On - by Abhisek Panda
• Are You? - Anonymous
• I Believe! - Contributed by Enigma
• Sweet Dreams - by Biswajit Mishra
• Love Comes to Those Who Love - Contributed by Enigma
• My Perfect White World - by Simi Das
• Don't Give Up On A Dream... - by Aakash Gupta
• TSUNAMI... the memories of yesterday - by Saikat Bose
• When You Are Old - by William Butler Yeats
• in the morning - by Kenneth Carroll
• The Last Ride - by Abhishek Panda
• Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms - by Thomas Moore
• Am I Mistaken??? - by Anupam Dasgupta
• Hélas - by Oscar Wilde
• A Musty Room - by Anupam Dasgupta
• Just One - Contributed by Enigma
• Dover Beach - by Matthew Arnold
• His Last Sonnet - by John Keats
• Blessings - Anonymous
• Love Smiles Forever - by Kamal Misra
• The Trails Of Life - Contributed by Enigma
• Had I the Heaven's Embroidered Cloths... - by W. B. Yeats
• Sunny Today - by James "PoppyK" Kisner
• Love - by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• In My Sky At Twilight - by Pablo Neruda
• Some Are Picked for Pleasure, Some for Pain - by Nicholas Gordon
• Every Third Wave - by Vishal Phadke
• The Arrow and The Song - by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• O, My Dear Friend !!! - by Sapna Mohata
• Before You Came - by Faiz Ahmed Faiz
• Never Have I Fallen - Contributed by Enigma
• A World Within - by Penny Aulakh
• I Thought You Had Forgotten... - by Alexander Pushkin
• A Brook In The City - by Robert Frost
• Tonight I write - by Pablo Neruda
• Wondrous Moment - by Alexander Pushkin
• Paradise - Contributed by Enigma
• Ode to Joy - Anonymous
• Fatima - by Lord Alfred Tennyson
• Roses - Contributed by Enigma
• Slow Dance - Anonymous
• Acquainted With the Night - by Robert Frost
• Without You... - Anonymous
• The Road Not Taken - by Robert Frost
• Accept Life - Anonymous
• IF - by Rudyard Kipling
• Hitler - by Shailesh V. Singh
• Today I found A Friend - Anonymous
• Decay - by Syed Shahnawaz Zaidi
• invictus - by William Ernest Henley