Love Chameleon: The Love Poems of Nidhi Saxena

By Nidhi Saxena

Love Chameleon is an anthology of contrarian poems penned over 20 years wherein the poet uses the metaphor of the Chameleon to elucidate the complex themes of love, lust, loss, longing, sexuality and outdated social mores. The book is paradoxical in that it blends several contradictory elements to make a powerful whole it is at once intrepidly bold and sensual, movingly sensitive and absurdly hilarious. The poems are further multi-layered in that they exist at the level of words but also convey higher meaning at another, more metaphysical level. In the end, the book truly captivates by its sheer candidness matched in equal measure with a witty and vibrant play of words.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Partridge Publishing India
• Release date: May 19, 2014
• ISBN: 9781482820201

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Contents

Acknowledgements

Prologue

Part I Love Chameleon

Drown

Love Chameleon

Love Sponge

One Night is Life

Kamaleon

Colors

Masquerade

Chameleon Confessions

Chameleon Love

Chameleon-esque

Chameleonic

To a Butterfly

Adultery

Orgy

Pagan God

The Art of Pleasure

The Chasm

Platonic

Sanctity

Chase

Love Chameleon Revisited

Love Vagabond

Journey

Bruised

Comma

Part II The Irreconcilability of Parting

Forgetting Fruit

Autumn

Absence

Monsoon

The End of Love

Estrangement

Love Sabbatical

Love Termite

Love Virus

Love Tumor

Love Carbuncles

Parting 2009

Sunburn 2011

Act of Fate

Surreal Dream

Vacuities

Disenchantment

Woozy

Tour De Registan

Without You

House of Unfulfilled Longings

The Memory Visarjan

Ironic

Amsterdam Suicide

Vestiges of the Feast

Hatred

Scars

Blade

Part III Longing Sutras

Enough

Escape

Reveal

Night of Jasmine

Wireless Verses

Naked

Cannot Touch You

Longing Sutras

Intoxication

Finality

Part IV A Heady Concoction with a Queer Mix

Queer

Surrender

Love Politics

Stereotype

Closet

Gender Bender

Unrepentant

Fragility

Wild Flower

Part V Et Al

Writing

Fine Wine

At 40

Electronic Break-up

Art Hop 2013

An Ordinary Love

The Vivah Ritual

The Seven Year Itch

The Ring

The Socialite’s Query

An Open Letter to Parents

Minotaur

Symbols

To Papa,

From whom I inherited

the love of books,

And to You,

Who made me realize

That love is nothing

but a Chameleon . . . .

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Acknowledgements

Acknowledgments are in no particular order,

Foremost, I would like to thank Camellia Suman,

For the exotic cover and sketches for the Love Chameleon,

Would also like to thank all at Partridge,

For helping me bring out this book to the public,

And then there are all my reviewers and critics,

Who each gave me some incisive feedback and edits,

And also all my colleagues at Karmic,

For always standing by me in happiness and in crisis,

Particularly, owe it to my Man Friday, Ayan,

For