The Poetic Journey
Description:
Pages: 158
Year of Publication: 2000
Price: HB Rs 150, FB Rs 60
ISBN:
HB 81-7595-604-6 (8175956046)
FB 81-7595-605-4 (8175956054)
About the Author:
Priyanak Sacheti was born in Melbourne (Australia) on March 9, 1982 and completed her schooling in Muscat (Oman). She has been a prolific writer and reader from an early age, having published her maiden poem in a Gulf children’s magazine, just after turning 8. She has written several hundred poems and a number of short stories. The Poetic Journey, her third book of poetry, is a collection of poems written during the decade 1989-1999.
Teaser:
Or So the Pain Said
Once,
Someone said
To an impoverished,
Unhappy
Little girl
Who seemed
Bent upon
On crying:
“You must see
The pain
And suffering
In this world
And then you’ll really cry.”
And so
The little girl said, instantly
“Get me a mirror
And I’ll see it for myself.”
Contents:
Poor Pie / 13
My Little Plant / 14
The Star / 15
Rabbit / 16
Beyond the Fence / 19
The Splendour of Oman / 20
Trolls / 21
A Stray Glade in the Meadow / 22
Rose and the Smile / 24
Ocean / 27
Kittens / 29
The Earth — Our Home / 31
A Peaceful Scene / 33
The Beach of Death / 36
The Nightmare / 38
Delhi — I Am Proud of You / 39
But a Happy… / 41
The Garden under the Spell of Rain / 45
Conversations / 47
Paper Birds / 50
Building Sand-Castles / 52
The One with the Pot, Watching Buddha Meditate / 54
Chikka / 56
Grotesque Surprises! / 58
Truth / 59
No Reprieve / 61
The Wonderland / 63
Kathuptuhli / 67
Bubble Bath / 69
A Desert Look / 71
Deja Vu / 73
Fashion Plates / 75
Glass Balls / 78
Who? Me? / 80
Attempting to Paint / 80
The Doors / 82
Butterflies on the Shore / 84
Leaving / 85
Sweet Cinnamon / 87
The Awakening / 91
The Sky / 92
Poetry in the Wind / 93
Militant’s Thoughts / 94
City of My Dreams / 96
Out — Caught at… / 98
1942 — A Love Story / 100
That Tumultuous Evening in 1938 / 101
Blooms of Flattery / 102
The Fleeting Smile / 103
The Mood / 104
Sweeping Dunes / 105
1982-1997 / 109
Do Not Tell Me to Stop Crying / 110
Answers / 111
Chalo Cinema / 113
Wrinkle — An Ode to All You Models / 114
Some Time Ago / 115
Or So the Pain Said / 116
Perfect Person Preserved in Plastic / 117
Because You Are a Woman / 118
When People Will Gossip Maliciously / 119
Partition: Snapshots of a Trauma / 121
I Understand, Great Grandmother / 124
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall / 127
Intervention / 128
The Pond Full of Secrets / 129
An Interview with a Fading… / 131
The Doomed Bride / 132
Walking through the Passage / 133
Tell Me / 135
Strawberries and Cream / 136
Suicide / 137
The Rejected Flowers / 138
A Chat over Coffee / 140
An Interlude with Destiny / 143
“What an Appetite!” / 147
A Nostalgic Trip to the Mango Grove / 149
A Walk with My Soul / 152
The Handprints on… / 154
Kargil — 1 / 155
Kargil — 2 / 157