'A Hidden Gem - So beautiful yet so unknown!!' A song that has been created will end; a life that has begun will end. There is nothing eternal in our daily experiences: we are born, we live, we have fleeting moments of something from the beyond and eventually, one day our body, as we have come to know it, perishes. Should there be nothing beyond what I call "my life", there remains nothing to search for. But I am restless, I am not at peace with myself, I am constantly searching for THAT which is beyond me. That search cannot be a search based on logic and science, not it is illogical or unscientific. Something in between logic and illogic is a-logic! And that is eternal. Jayita has done an amazing job of expressing through words that which is beyond words. Through her own personal experiences of joy and grief, pleasures and pains, logic and illogic - she has discovered a world that is within this world and yet not of it. Starting with the "The Breaking Dawn", where she paints a picture of the "light of heaven" and of "grief melted, the light kindled", Jayita has poured her own heart and soul in each of these exquisite poems. Poems like "Sea of Soul" and "Eternal Bond" are deep and serious, and others like "The Dancing Dewdrops", "Dancing Waves of Truth" and "Sweet Wandering" are deceptively simple yet utterly transformational. Finally, Jayita concludes in the 36th poem with a very simple answer to the eternal quest of that existential question "Who am I?" - and that is "Being Nothing, I am Everything".
I highly recommend this book to anyone who has love in their hearts (which is everyone), who has a desire to explore the life beyond life (which is everyone), who needs simple words that bring peace, joy and relief to them (which is everyone). I, for one, has celebrated with every word in this book - for every word has been chiseled with the heart and soul of the author. Thank you Jayita for making this immense contribution to the world of poetry.'
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Poetry springs with an immense capacity to water the human soul and unfold the opportunities to reclaim the lost humanity. Reflective poetry make our existence sacramental and transforms it to a living. Poetry can arise even from scratches of sorrow, or the windswept day, or the rainswept evenings. Through reflection, the baffled mind can be washed up on the shores of heartland. Delving deep into an introspection, poetry arises and the empty bottle gushes out with wine. In this sense, reflective poetry is a response to the questions that peek into the human mind. Through the bruised past and the crushed cans, you walk on the solitary shores, but now you found the one bottle that holds the wine to bring you home.
In addition, it sheds light on the transient times of life , alchemizing them into an ageless music, whose lyrics travel from now to eternity. No memory goes in vain. They live in the breath of eternity and the lyrics leave an imprint on the sands of time. Such is the timeless melody of the soul, that one saga which fills the universe and keeps it singing through the rolling of time.
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