A Rose by Any Other Name...: A Collection of Thoughts in Verse.

By Arunav Barua

This collection of poems is a myriad expression of the evolution of human thought. From a temple waiting through time for Moksh, to a love affair between a sailor and a Lighthouse in The Sailor and the Lighthouse. In an Ode to a kitchen sword, the karma of a sword(weapons of destruction and war) is questioned and is finally asked to feed a hungry man, bound in a kitchen. A fitting Karmic tool for justice. Tale talks about the inherent need in all of us for a concept, call it unconditional love, or a name you choose and our journey towards it.
This whole collection of around seventy poems is basically the expressions of the heart, including its capacity for love and its angst at pain.
It is for all readers who take great pleasure in exploring the dimensions of thought! It is a collection for believers in that one slippery concept we all know as Unconditional Love.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Trafford Publishing
• Release date: Jun 20, 2013
• ISBN: 9781490705897

Arunav Barua

Brought up in a hill station in the North Eastern part of India, I have been a willing recipient of the wonders of nature that Shillong threw up at me. From streams to hillocks, pine trees and clouds—the rains would often mean that you stayed back at home reading or writing (if you had the desire). I chose the latter in between engrossing reads from the former. My childhood gave me a constant, which helped pass phases of losing myself in the milieu and in life. I have used verse to give comfort and find stability in an otherwise difficult existence.

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Contents

Foreword

The Source Of All Art

Stars And A Paper

Song Of Hope

A Childhood Promise

A Crush!

A Fire Stolen

A Free Bird

A Page From History

A Heart Shaped Mind

A Journey Half Travelled

Afterevening

Contours

Echoe

Enlightenment

Hark Stranger

Horizon

How Long Has It Been Moon

Lady In Red

Let It Loose

Memory

O Sorrow!

Oasis Of Love

Old Friend That You Are

Progeny Of Hope

Rain

The Sailor And The Lighthouse

Rest Assured

Sample Of Love

Seems Like Tommorow

Sunset (Goudhuli)

Take Me Away

Tale

Test Of Courage

That Come Hither Look

That Journey (Deuta)

The Beast In Us All

The Colour Blue

The Escape

The Hearing Aid

The Log On The Roof

The Logic For A Horseshoe

The Nest

The Quest

The Return

The Search…

The Sound Of Absence

Passion

The Wait

The Walk

The Watch

The Wall

Moonlight

A Letter To My Pear Tree

The Cigarette

The Lovebird…

A Rose By Any Other Name…

Pain

The We In Us

A Passage Back Home

She Sits Forlorn

Silence

All As One

Wishes

A Living Tree

The Journey To Find Myself

Serve The Love

The Sleeping Sculpture

Ode To A Kitchen Sword…

An Imagined Conversation On Thinking With The Heart

Somebody

To Deuta, my best friend and guide through times adverse, happy in my happiness, sad in my sorrow and a rock through my trials.

To Ma, who taught me to love books, to be happy in small measure at even ordinary instances and the value of human relationships.

To Rumpi, who is, and has been the one who made my failures seem bearable because of her being there, fighting her own battles with courage and bravado.

To Ron, who has so naturally adapted to being a part of the family.

And to Duffer, who doesn’t need to be told anything except ‘duffer’.

FOREWORD

Some time ago, a young boy was admitted in a critical state under my care following a traffic accident. As providence would have it, he gradually started to recover and fortunately for all of us, he made a complete recovery. As he was recuperating, my daily interaction with him gradually turned into a more personal one from a mere doctor patient relationship. I gradually discovered that there is a unique intensity of thoughts in this young man quite uncharacteristic of people of his age. A more pleasant surprise was in store for me when I discovered that the boy is a prolific composer of verses, and that too in English!! This young man was none other than Arunav.

Poetry has fascinated mankind from time immemorial and I was no exception. The lyrical flow of words