Love & Life: (Selected Poems)

By Jiten Borkakoti

This book contains sixty-fi ve poems selected
from many poems written by Jiten Borkakoti
during 1964 and 2011. It is hoped that
people from all walks of life will enjoy reading the
poems that deal with human emotions of love in its
multifarious dimensions, and also with the wider
questions of human existence and timeless eternity.
Hence, the title of the book aptly is Love & Life.
Some poems are relatively more abstract than others,
but abstraction helps to capture emotional depth and
intensity. A poem in the last analysis is a painting of
a thought painted in words.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris UK
• Release date: Jan 13, 2012
• ISBN: 9781469135205

Jiten Borkakoti

Dr. Jitendralal Borkakoti, who likes to be known as Jiten Borkakoti, lives in Hertfordshire, England. A graduate from Delhi University where he obtained his BA(Hons) Degree from Hindu College and MA from Delhi School of Economics, Dr. Borkakoti went on to earn his MSc(Econ) and PhD in Economics at the London School of Economics. After retirement from Middlesex University, London, where he taught economics, Dr. Borkakoti, who has been writing poems for about forty-fi ve years, a fact unknown to his colleagues, has edited his poems, and has prepared a collection of his poems. His poems deal with love and life.

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Love & Life

(Selected Poems)

Jiten Borkakoti

Copyright © 2012 by Dr. J. Borkakoti.

Library of Congress Control Number:       2011962428

ISBN:         Hardcover                               978-1-4691-3519-9

                   Softcover                                 978-1-4691-3518-2

                   Ebook                                      978-1-4691-3520-5

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Contents

Futile

Cosmic Flight

Homage to Love

Boundless Joy

A Feeling

Struggle for Love

Sudden Inspiration

Love’s Freedom

Union

A Beautiful Maiden

Anniversary

Reluctance

Heuristic Love

Romantic Dreams

Vicissitudes of Love

End of Love

Revelation

Vietnam

Quiddity’s Visions

Cactus

Truth and Beauty

Adieu, My Laura

Wandering Notions

The Vietnamese

Second Reflection of Eve

Hey, Girl?

My India

Eternity

Expectation

Wake Up, India!

Failure

Frustration

Skewed Thoughts

Metamorphosis

Sin

Rotation

Light

To Judy

An X-Ray of Love

Suffering

My Bride

Jejune Light

Beauty of a Mirage

Rumination

Midnight Assignation

Continuity of Life

Decadent Love

Catastrophe

Confusion

Martyr

Nympholepsy

To Alena

Cruel Fate

Compromise

A Sad Mind

Crossroad

Barren Love

Angry Brigade

To My Mother

A Game of Football

Oracle

Time’s Command

Revolution

Elope

Gateway

for

Neera

Preface

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I have been writing poems, off and on, for about forty-five years; but it is only recently, after my retirement, that I have started the process of seriously editing my poems for publication. The reason is both circumstantial and personal. I was keen on writing poetry in my twenties; but being an economist by profession, I found myself teaching mathematically oriented economics and writing abstract articles for almost four decades. During this period, I found that there existed a clash of ‘moods’. Poets require an emotional disposition or a mental framework that inspires them to write poems. During my professional career, therefore, poetry writing unfortunately dropped to a trickle. It was only after retirement that the flame of poetry lit up my heart again. I found inspiration and poetry came flooding back to me. The fact that I write poetry was not known even to my colleagues and friends with a few exceptions. Now it has come as a surprise to my friends and ex-colleagues.

From the poems written during 1964 and 2011, I have selected sixty-five poems for publication. I hope people from all walks of life, ranging from doctors and scientists to housewives and taxi drivers, will enjoy reading my poems. This is because my poems deal with human emotions of love in its multifarious dimensions, and also with the wider questions of human existence and timeless eternity. Hence, the title of the book aptly is Love & Life. The style of a few poems is not modern, as I like sometimes to write in metrical form. But the most of my poems are in modern style, and these are written in vers libre. Some poems are relatively more abstract than others, but abstraction helps to capture the depth and intensity. A poem, in