Verses on Wings

By KHUSHHAL SINGH

Verses on Wings is a masterly crafted literary collection of poems that must appeal to all lovers of wit and humor with a heart that feels, loves and understands the human soul. For readers that love humor, will appreciate beauty that lies not in the eye, but in the ardent arms of her holder. The poet dreams a great plan for his next birth, and seeks heavenly Monteks approval, and enjoys a mansion of bricks (of ice-cream) melting in his mouth. Thus opening with poems that regale with wit, where the poet is baffled why ladies cant join a stag party, there are verses that inspire and uplift the spirit with devotion and love for the Lord and the Preceptor, and ponder over the wonders, greatness and frailties of the mortals. He has mixed feelings at the passing show of the human. The poets veins seem to have not blood, but love overflowing therein. The sonnets are very well written on a variety of subjects. And there is a flood of nonsense limericks and haikus to uplift the morosest of minds.
Verses on Wings returns many times the few bucks.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Partridge Publishing India
• Release date: Jan 29, 2014
• ISBN: 9781482817294

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Copyright © 2014 by Khushhal Singh.

ISBN:                  Softcover                           978-1-4828-1730-0

                            Ebook                                978-1-4828-1729-4

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Contents

Introduction

SECTION I:   Poems In Light Vein

1. Those Good Old Days

2. My Future Plans

3. On Computer I Compose

4. Forced to Drink

5. Let Me Count the Days

6. Whom the Gods Love, Dies Young

7. Jill and Gill

8. My Heart Leaps Up When I’m Told

9. If Music be the Food of Love

10. Modern Polonius’s Advice to Laertes

11. Rama, Your Ganga isn’t ‘Mailee’ (Dirty)

SECTION II:   Poems to the Lord

1. A Buffoon’s Babble

2. A Soulful Prayer

3. Was He an Orphan?

4. As Man Adores His Creations

5. Remembrance

6. A Joyful Day

7. The Voice Within

8. The Best of All

9. The Ignorant She-Gardener

10. In Gratitude

11. Back to the Ocean

12. Will Wounds Heal?

SECTION III:   Poems to the Tenth Master

1. The Dust

2. His Message to the Lord

3. The Gift

4. He Shed No Tears

SECTION IV:   Thoughts on Mortality

1. We Were Eleven

2. Valentine

3. Call of My Star

4. Void

5. Ready for the Wolf?

6. Mother

7. On M.F. Hussain’s Demise

8. O T H E L L O

9. The Red Rose

SECTION V:   Something about Myself

1. A Confession

2. Reprieve

3. The Moss

4. Thoughts Near Ana Sagar

5. Fruitful Would My Life Be

SECTION VI:   From History

1. Two Hundred and Thirty Nine Years to the Panth

2. Fact or Fiction?

3. The Longest Saree

4.The Temple that Turned Around

SECTION VII:   Sonnets

1. Love in the Sky

2. On the Winged Dreams

3. Alarm Before Dawn

4. Like a Dream is Life

5. A Star in the Sky

6. Portrait of My Lady

7. Shall I Tell You?

8. I Slept Not That Night

9. By Your Leave

10. Live Life as it Comes

11. In Memory of My Mentor

12. On a Lady—Love’s Demise

13. Wordsworth, Thou Shouldst Be Living at this Hour

14. Wonder Where They Live

15. On Watching Baghban Again

16. They were not Rats

17. They were Barbaric Savages who Looted

SECTION VIII:   Limericks

SECTION IX:   Haikus

About the Book

Here is a collection of poems that inspires and lifts the spirit to a world of laughter, bows to the Lord, has a vision of the great Preceptor, achieves balance and sanity and kicks away any depressing feeling out of life. And there’re plenty of sonnets, limericks and haikus to delight the reader.

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Dedicated to

Late Inderjeet Kaur

Whose Memory Ever Inspires