Category: Poetry Publisher: The Poetry Society of India
ISBN-10: 9383888695
Pages: 77
Copyright: 2017
ISBN-13: 9789383888696
It is a collection of poems written over a period of last three decades.
The Chant of Vitasta is a collection of poems composed in different moods at different points of time. Symbolic of the poet, the Vitasta has been flowing down the length of the Kashmir valley for ages, terminating its journey only when it finds an easeful repose in the mighty waters of the Sindhu. Like the poet, it has witnessed many a summer of peace and prosperity and winter of strife and destruction. It has seen kingdoms rise and kingdoms fall. It has seen cultures prosper and decay. In each season and through different and at times difficult terrains, it has flowed on, humming its tunes of joy and sorrow. And yet the river itself has not remained unchanged. Its waters have been constantly replenishing, subject as it is to the laws of Nature. Nor has its name remained unchanged. Every ascendant culture has given it its own name, Vitasta to Hydaspes to Jhelum. As a symbolic reminder of the poet’s cultural and geographical roots, it is yet in the feminine form, representing the androgynous nature of the act of poetic creation. So, readers can find the range of playful lyrics to incantatory compositions in this collection. Each poem is, however, an attempt to explore the self, the world, and the relationship between the two.
Excerpt
Ode to Shakti
When I hear the cool mellifluous notes of the Koel
I remember you
When I feel the freshness of the cool morning breeze
I remember you
When I behold the beauty of the chubby baby Dawn
I remember you
When I behold a lone flower on a pile of human waste
I remember you
When I hear the cry of a tender helpless wayside child in pain
I remember you
When I see a rose plucked from its native suckling branch
I remember you
When I see the turning to waste of the sacred peaceful woods
I remember you
When I feel the hollowness in feelings once expressed
I remember you
When I feel no pain in the midst of half-witted public calumny
I feel you
When I feel no anger in the face of gravest provocation
I feel you
When I lose not my patience in the face of clumsy action
I feel you
When I leap not in ecstasy upon the toughest victory
I feel you
The peace of the lyrical Koel is you
The peace of the morning breeze is you
The peace of the baby Dawn is you
The peace of the lonely flower is you
Peace is you
Love is you
Life is you
Only youyouyouandyou
Liberated the Purush in I
Finds his moksha in you.
Robin Ouzman Hislop's poetry is certainly in dialogue with some of the key architects of the 'poetics of indeterminacy' – both the Modernist strands represented by the likes of Beckett and Stein, and the postmodernist strands represented, initially,
In the Whirlwind is a poetic storm that frees history from the cages of corruption and puts it in the hands of everyday people. Words are weaved into a new fashion statement that has nothing to do with runways but everything to do with projects!
From the author of Jupiter Remembered and Until It’s Time: Embracing Life In Our Later Years comes Petals of Love: Poetry of a Woman’s Soul – a heartfelt collection spanning more than thirty-five years. Through tender reflections, these poems offer g
