Myriad

By Anu Mahadev

First time poet Anu Mahadev brings you Myriad - a wonderful collection of poems that paints a vivid and brilliant picture of life. Her poems soulfully bring out the contrast in the beauty and ugliness of the world around us and transport the reader through a roller coaster ride of emotions. Be it marveling at the mysteries of nature or capturing the passion and yearning among lovers to plunging to the depths of loss, rejection and depression, her poems display a tremendous ability to capture these different moods and make the reader a part of the experience.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Jan 18, 2013
• ISBN: 9781481706445

Anu Mahadev

Anu Mahadev was born and raised in India and moved to the US several years ago to pursue her graduate studies. She is currently an MFA student at Drew University in New Jersey, where she resides with her husband and son. She can be reached at [e-mail].

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Published by AuthorHouse 01/15/2013

ISBN: 978-1-4817-0645-2 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4817-0644-5 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2013900702

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Contents

Dedicated to

Foreword

Awe

Rose

Fall

Autumn Lovers

Turnover

Leaf

The end of Fall

Temptation

Rain

Autumn Sun

Jasmine

Aging woods

Arrival

Water

Tide

Dawn

Dusk’s Call

Allure

Maiden

Amour

Prism

Balloons

Cherry Blossoms

Roads

Ablaze

Crush

Last Night (based on the movie)

Tangerine

Evening

Abandoned

Dry Leaf

Tryst

Marine Drive

The Walk

Vision

Yellow Flowers

If you were mine

The first time

Rainy afternoons

At First Sight

Key

Head over heels

Elemental

Oct 21, 2000

Oct 22, 2000

Unrequited

Lines

Footprints

Senses

Blessing

Gaze

Evening Lamp

Union

Angst

Inkblots

Leaves

Blue

The Room

Empty

Depression

Petals

Reverie

Fast Food

Mirror

January 1st

The freak’s dream

Ennui

Daily Death

Suburbia

Adieu

Winter

Warrior

The Pill

Unknown Writer

Missing

Failure

For . . .

The cut

Revenge

Asylum

Alive!

Monsoon

Time

The Birthday tree

A child’s sky

Homecoming

Happiness

Home

Bliss

Cake

Mirth

The rival

Summer walk

Summer evening

Atoms

Credits

Special Thanks to

Dedicated to

My family and closest friends, without which neither this book nor this life would be possible.

Foreword

By

Deepa Sundararaman.

It is with pride, joy and a feeling of honor that I take this opportunity to introduce Anu’s first book of poems to you.

My friendship with Anu is in its tenth year now, and relating how I know her is very telling about this lovely poet’s personality. Anu is married to my husband’s closest childhood friend. Many a friendship falls by the wayside when marriages happen and a new personality enters the mix, but no, this friendship only got stronger. She embraced their friendship, added to it and soon, she had adopted my husband to be her brother. A few years later, I enter the picture. Again, I give this strong woman all credit for warmly and enthusiastically including me into that friendship and today, I don’t consider her my husband’s sister or his friend’s wife, but as my friend and confidante.

This book is categorized into five segments: awe, amour, angst, alive and a final segment of short poems called atoms. I’ve read them all and love them. And I hope you will too. As you read them, you will understand how they bring out joy, passion, pain, angst or wonder so expressively. When I read them, I felt as if her soul is in the poems, as if she personally experienced what her characters express.

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