House Arrest
Description:
Pages: 68
Year of Publication: 2000
Price: HB Rs 100, FB Rs 80
ISBN:
HB 81-7595-786-7 (8175957867)
FB 81-7595-787-5 (8175957875)
About the Author:
Kanwar Dinesh Singh (born on 10 June 1975) teaches English at the Government College, Karsog in the Mandi district of Himachal Pradesh. He edits Litcrit India, a literary journal in English. He has published seven other poetry collections.
Teaser:
A Somnambulist’s World
Every one of us on earth
Is sleepwalking —
This earth is
A somnambulist’s world
Everything we do is
In woken slumber
Unaware of all
Else we do
For there is some
Unkonwn force behind the stimulus
Who takes delight
In every move of ours
That it itself directs
We retire to our real world
Only when we are woken
Everyone of us wakes
When kindled by the truthfire
When the real sun rises
Beyond all horizons.
Contents:
A Somnambulist’s World / 9
Water-in-Colour / 10
World / 12
Spreadvast I / 13
The “I” in Me / 15
Detachment / 16
Topsy Turvy / 17
Longings / 18
Ambition / 20
Youth Today / 21
Myopia / 22
Shimla / 23
The Clouds / 26
The Country Rivulet / 27
History / 30
A Love Song / 32
Things without Name / 34
When You’re before Me / 36
The Colours of Colours / 38
To a Parting Love / 40
Valediction / 41
We / 43
They Call Her Venus / 44
Pride of Background / 46
House Arrest / 47
Mirror / 48
Ideals / 50
Right-Duty / 51
Day, Night and We / 52
God / 53
The Making of Gods / 54
History Makes Men Gods / 55
Dance of the Great God / 57
On Silence / 59
Bandy Words / 60
At the Waist of a Poem / 62
Peacemongers / 63
Idyll / 64
Not the Saffron Way / 65
A Dream of Death / 66
Cosmosis / 68