I am aware that poetry is ‘always in fashion’ . In such an encouraging situation it is so delightful write poems and even more joyful to read, and appreciate them. So I write from my soul.
How I wrote the Poems on Life?
The poems are basically the vibes of my emotional responses to internal or external stimuli. The creative process is rather unconventional in my case. A thought enters my mind. I mull over it, in the sense that I reflect on it, meditate on it, till I explore it in all its ramifications. The thought melts and becomes subjective. After experiencing it intensely from the standpoint of the soul, the objective viewpoint emerges in the flash of a poem.
The Poems are My Meditations
The emotions expressed in these poems are as old the Himalayas. I make no tall claim of their being my creation. What I would lay hold on is my experience of these elemental thoughts and feelings and the subsequent endeavor to clothe them. These emotions are my emotions; they have become a part of my being.
Outbursts of the Soul
I am rather not technically skilled in the nuances of versification and not well-read, if that were to be the yardstick of scholarship. Only a few books adorn my shelf. What I thoroughly enjoy is reading life at first hand and writing the ’rounded experience’ in the fashion the soul deems fit. These ‘outbursts’ are definitely not spontaneous. They have aged in the cask of my heart.
The poems span over a decade of turbulent thought. They were written usually after periods of contemplation on what caused ripples in my heart. Their source has been my interaction with the world.
As such, the literary world has had little to offer other than motivation. Perhaps, I fortunate, for I have been aggressively original. Yet I must confess that the few thought-diamonds chiseled by master-craftsmen have shed their radiance on my thought-process.
Diverse Emotions of Life
The poems are on different themes covering the diverse emotions that add life to life. Most of them are reflective in nature trying to depict a mood. In some, the thought is dense while in some it appears to be shallow like the ebb and tide of a wave. Whether dense or shallow each each poem is ‘the crystallization of my emotional experience’ .
Why I wrote the Poet’s Perspective?
As such, the tone and tenor of these poems is quite different. I have made a sincere attempt to translate the feelings sprouted in my heart in the simplest terms. Yet when I have read them to friends or to scholars they have expressed a certain difficulty in grasping their purport thoroughly which they have attributed to a degree of sublimity and subtlety in them. Hence the bit of explanation for every poem.
My Sincere Thanks to…
The spring of my courage has been my elderly friend, noted critic and author Mr. K.V.Purneswara Rao. I owe my thanks to him, first, for encouraging me to pool my poems, secondly, for his frank criticism, and lastly, for suggesting the idea of explanation for every poem and for the assistance in writing it.
