Life Through a Prism

By Umasankar

We go about our lives seeing but not looking, hearing but not listening. Umasankars poetical gift is looking for beauty, or some meaning, in everything he sees. Life Through a Prism is a broad collection of his poetry in which he considers the wonder of nature and both the excitement and reality of college life.

Some of Umasankars earliest saved works are from his engineering college days. Just like any other young man, his days were filled with excitement, activity, trust, letdown, melancholy, and new hope. He captures these feelings eloquently in poems like First Love, An Evening in College and Canvas, among others. His harmonic verses on nature and beauty include Beautiful Morning and Gods World, where he considers the beauty and magnificence of the artistry of Gods creation.

This love for natural beauty has led him onto the path of picture poems. Captured by some allure in photographs, Umasankar has a whole segment of poetry that describes those photographs in words more colorful than the actual pictures, like The Lone Chili Pepper and Water of Life.

True to the title of the book, in Life Through a Prism, thoughts enter Umasankars mind like white light through a prism and then form a beautiful rainbow in the minds of the readers he touches.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Partridge Publishing Singapore
• Release date: Jan 16, 2014
• ISBN: 9781482895766

Umasankar

The journey through life has never been simple for the poet Umasankar. An engineer by profession but a poet at heart, he has written many verses in the stealth of night. Capturing the essence of life in very simple words is his passion.

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978-1-4828-9577-3 (sc)

978-1-4828-9576-6 (e)

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

About the Poet

Overview

HAND OF GOD

1.   The Lone Chili Pepper

2.   Beauty Un-Defined

3.   Windmill of the Gods

4.   Water of Life

5.   Surfing the Tube

6.   God’s World

7.   Azalea

8.   Firefly

9.   Beautiful Morning

10. Mirage

INTROSPECTION

1.   An Accident

2.   Piping Hot

3.   Ecstasy – II (A)

4.   Ecstasy – II (B)

5.   A Dream

6.   Fate

7.   Hope

8.   Song

NOSTALGIA

1.   Happiness

2.   Amnesia

3.   Furnace

4.   Forest

5.   For the Trainees

6.   An Evening

in the College

7.   College Elections

8.   Calcutta

9.   A Lone Fisherman

10. Outside

the Library

11. Rabab

12. Sunabeda

13. Me

SOLITUDE

1.   Kodachadri

2.   In Solitude

3.   Darkness

4.   Rebirth

5.   Some Passing Thoughts

6.   The First

7.   Thoughts

Remembrances

Of … .

8.   Vampire

9.   Welcome Address

REMINISCENCE

1.   An Abstract Form

2.   As I Reminisce

3.   The Portrait

4.   The Maiden

5.   Canvas

6.   Letter

to Suresh

7.   Letter to Padma Priya (1)

8.   Letter To Padma Priya (2)

9.   An Autograph

10. First Love

11. In The Conference

Advance Acclaim for the Life Through a Prism

Acknowledgement

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