Re-Surging

Venilla Rajaguru

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A literary volume par excellence! 101 poems on the grand theme of resurgence in life and love.
A Poetry Classic! A worthy Perennial.
RE-SURGING
by Venilla Rajaguru
A literary volume of 101 poems
A Poetry Classic! A worthy Perennial!
This literary volume is on the grand theme of resurgence in life and love. Universal in thematic appeal, these eclectic poems tackle various moods, sentiments, and experience: burgeoning quests; resurfacing of socio-technical issues; rebounding social practices; and emotional explorations of love, loss, and revival of the Self. The poetic renditions span the sociological, philosophical, and metaphysical dimensions of our human experience. Every poem in this volume is composed to excellent literary standards of meter, rhythm, and rhyme, promising a delightful read.
Venilla Rajaguru displays remarkable mastery of metaphorical stylistics in verse. She excels in social satire just as in her philosophical mode. Her love poems are evocatively sensuous, yet interweaving higher dimensions of communion. Her poems are brilliantly crafted with a story telling approach, and often imbued with a dramatic effect. Her narrative style is captivating. A definite Perennial of literary charm and value.

Sujets

• Perennial plant
• Metaphysical
• Poetry
• Resurgence
• Quest
• Classic
• Love

Informations

• Publié par: Trafford Publishing
• Date de parution: 14 septembre 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781698712727
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

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RE-SURGING

101 Poems on Quests - Resurgence - Love








VENILLA RAJAGURU



© Copyright 2022 Venilla Rajaguru. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the written prior permission of the author.

ISBN: 978-1-6987-1271-0 (sc) ISBN: 978-1-6987-1273-4 (hc) ISBN: 978-1-6987-1272-7 (e)
Library of Congress Control Number: 2022915842
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Contents
Dedication
Acknowledgement
Introduction
I : QUESTS
Walls
Mosaic
Dream, A New Day
Mothering Land
The Light Quest
Verdict
Through The River of Life
Lighthouse
His Eyes
That Clan Chieftain Proud
Hope
Grace
Riddle
Like A Blossom
Like a Wildflower
Choice Check
Maya
A Rational Inquiry
To Love
Rethinking
Avatar
Angels in The Wind
Spiritual
Logic
Astral Quest
Arising, to The Unknown
Seeking
Of Faith, and Qualms
Quintessence
A prayer
II : RESURGENCE
Like Phoenix, I rise
Goodbye Kiss
Old Soul
My Choice
Tears
Paper Hearts
In Different Times
Regeneration
Lone Trail
Awry
Healing
Incomplete
Recharge
Be, Just Be Love
Disconnects
Regenerative Mix
Lost & Found
The Poetics of Truth
Clouds of Times
Perilous
Resurging Past
Circles of Peace
That Custom
Quarantine Love
A Socio-Legal Resurge
Affairs of Change
Her Renewed Dating
Give Yourself Time
The Moon Keeps Me Company
Now
III : SANCTUARY OF LOVE
A Sanctuary of Love
Choice
Father
Linda, in Me
Ethereal
Calling You
The Promise of the Sun
The Venusian
To Champion, Onward
My New Year
Reading Deep
Love’s Nest
Homeward
Magic
Wishlist
The Angel Home
Guardian Angel
Transforming Time
The Wife’s Call
On your Birthday
The Angel Armour
Make a Wish
Like a Force of Nature
Coupled
Saviour
In The garden of Earthen
Whispers
Reassuring
My Sun
Ode to My Daughter, Precious
ADDENDUM
A Renascent Poet
A World of Mirrors
The City of the Merlion
Across The Detroit River
Love Karma
Contrived
The Business of Life
Rainbow Reveries
In Life’s Plain Routine
Feel Your Quest
Re-Embodiment
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
About The Author
Continuing the Conversation on RE-SURGING



Dedication
To my Husband, who endures my long working hours, and willingly supports me in daily chores. Thanks to him I can now focus on many writing projects, including the timely completion of this volume of poetry in 2022.



Acknowledgement
To you my readers, my heart felt gratitude for your appreciation and love of my poetry. In the 10 years gap between my first poetry book and this second one, many who know me have encouraged me to continue in my poetry writing track, despite me being immersed in doctoral research on oceanic issues and outer space. I also head a business on software solutions for managing intellectual property risks and audit. The demands on my time are immense. But I realize that poetry writing gives me a sense of balance, a welcome break, and increases my creative insights. Now that I’ve done my second book of poems, I can honestly say that the encouragement and moral support I received from my inner circle of readers gave me the much-needed impetus to stay consistent in my daily writing of poems, to be able to work towards this compilation of 101 poems.
Furthermore, this book that you now behold is the outcome of many years of my education in world literatures in schools and colleges. My fondness for literary standards of structured verse with regularity of meter is rooted in my appreciation of English Poetry and several other poetic traditions. I am deeply grateful to all the great teachers who have taught me poetry in schools and colleges in India and at Oxford, U.K. As a teenager, I used to write poems for the love of reciting them to my audience of friends and family. But my serious effort at compiling my more mature poems into a book for publication began with my desire to present my poetry to expanding networks of friends, colleagues, and readers now spread out worldwide across diverse cultures and professional paths.
I owe my heartiest thanks to the publishing coordinators for their critical inputs on book design, and format. My special thanks to my husband for being part of the cover design and imagery discussions. He takes care of daily household chores and errands, sometimes even making lunch for me, so I can focus on my writings. Again, to you my encouraging readers, my networks of peers, social media friends and poetry lovers, to you I owe my consistent practice of writing a poem everyday, and on some days more than one poem, to be able to produce a poetry book for you. In doing so, I have discovered that this consistent habit of writing poetry is therapeutic, joyful, and inspirational. May my poetry now give you joy, solace, and the steady inspiration for uplifting you in your realms of good quests and success.
Thank You!



Introduction
“What is a poem?”. This was a question for discussion in a recent writers meet. It elicited discussions on what qualifies as a poem, about the conceptual basis and the many forms of poetic narration. My answer was, “A poem is the heartiest expression of an event or emotion, in its simplest form”. In its grandest or most powerful version, a poem can be multivalent: a metaphorical rendition of a philosophical inquiry, a rhythmic deliberation on socio-technical practices, and even effective as a structured rhetoric on sociological issues. A poem can be delivered as a recital or song, if it is written with alliterative rhythm and/or with regular rhyme scheme. This subject of poetic forms and rendition of content is very relevant to this volume of my poetry.
First, I do not see nor agree with the separation of form from the content of a poem. Both content and form are parts of a poetic rendition: a poem about a rational inquiry is structured very differently from one expressing emotions of love or grief. Similarly, a philosophical poem is written differently from a sociological one. For me, poetic forms such as sonnets and odes with regular rhyme scheme are effective forms for expressing sentiments and emotions (e.g. A Sanctuary of Love; Ode to my Daughter, Precious). However, details of rhyme scheme in my sonnets and odes differ from the now archaic Elizabethan and Italian court rhymes, even though I adhere to the broader classical framework of stanzaic structures with regular meter.
I do prefer to compose my poems in regular meter, even while skipping a steady rhyme scheme in blank verse renditions about resurging passion, transcendental sensuality and renascence (e.g. The Venusian; Re-embodiment). I have also used blank verse for satirising certain irrational yet evolving social predilections (e.g. That Custom; Quarantine Love). My blank verse has a structured meter with regularity of syllabic counts, and with rhythm produced most often by alliteration or repetition of certain key words – though I do omit the explicit rhyme scheme and rhyming couplets of some classical forms of poetry in blank verse. (e.g. The Moon keeps me company; Disconnects).
Yet, for certain thematic explorations, such as metaphysics of love (e.g. Calling You; The Promise of the Sun), I do use rigid rhyme scheme as the essential medium of poetic narration. In fact, many of my poems in this volume are structured in rhyming couplets, as a method of emphasising a particular issue, and buttressing a sentiment of love or loss, or resurging quest. This volume, moreover, includes few of my experimental writings: of particular interest to the reader would be a blend of poetic forms, where stanzas of regular rhyme scheme are interspersed with haiku (Through the River of Life). There are also several poems in free verse, of which four are composed with an ascending syllabic count in each line to reinforce both thematic weight and tempo, i.e., a build-up style of narration (Circles of Peace; Choice; Reading Deep; On your Birthday). In short, the semantics, grammatical structure and meter of my rendition differ according to the themes I explore and narrate in every poem.
Secondly, my metaphorical stylistics is integral to the thematic aspects of every poem in this volume. Unlike my first volume of poetry, where the central metaphor of “the mind’s eye” set a philosophical framework, this volume Re-Surging is written with a more varied approach. The poems here tackle a wider range of resurgence: burgeoning quests, renewed seeking, resurfacing of socio-technical issues, rebounding social practices, and emotional explorations of love, loss, revival, and resurgence of the Self. For instance, nouns such as ‘Wall’, ‘Mosaic’ and ‘Clouds’ take on metaphorical life signifying more than one singular dimension and meaning in my poems on sociological issues.
On another spectral level, my metaphors are deliberately metaphysical in poems of soulful love and spiritual experience (e.g. Astral Quest; Angel Armour; Like a Force of Nature; Light Reminder). The ‘Sun’, ‘Stars’, and ’Home’ a