Love Talks

By Harshada Pathare

Transcending time and space, Harshada Pathare’s Love Talks, takes the reader from the cosmic to the intimate, from the swirling abstract to the mundane concrete, in words both lofty and accessible. Forging connections between the ephemeral and everyday experience, Pathare’s poems guide the reader to connect the overwhelmingly celestial above us with the overlooked simplicity surrounding us.

Galaxies, flowers, relationships, and the depths of the human soul are all vehicles to carry a timeless awareness of love and love’s overarching reign over all creation. Whether personal love of another incarnation of humanity or one soul’s love of the infinite, Pathare writes of the vast interconnectedness of all things, all times, all beings.

Simultaneously individualistic and humble—a part of existence’s measureless whole—these poems reflect the human duality that makes life painful, ecstatic, and worth living. Each poem is inward-looking and outward-reaching, intent to connect with other souls. There is attention to the infinite sand that pours through an unbounded hourglass, and there is focus on each unique grain.

Linger, then, and listen to Love Talks. Reflect on the murmurings of our own hearts and souls, adrift in the immeasurable, joining the fires of our own emotion.

Prof. Robert Masterson
November 2019
New York City, New York, USA

• Language: English
• Publisher: Harshada Pathare
• Release date: Jan 27, 2020
• ISBN: 9789389888096

Harshada Pathare

Author and Contrarian Thinker, Harshada Pathare creates connections via art. Her purpose: enrich and empower people and elevate the common story one word at a time. Her style: Living life with no fears of depths, learning to create an open dialogue between heart and mind. Take a moment to imagine a perfect world—one that requires no improvement. Difficult, right? But not just that. It’s really rather unpleasant. As long as creativity persists in the universe, there will always be room for improvement...and those who fail to forge new tools, blaze better paths and dream ‘XL’ will neither leave a legacy nor live with life’s true pleasures. That said, my journey as a writer isn’t terribly unique. (Thinking’s the tricky part!) I simply wish to express myself, and syntax is the tool I’ve chosen. It may have been music. It may have been clicks, but nothing compares to the love I have for language and its voltage. There’s a beauty in both the equations of lexical clarity and poetic abstraction. One can’t compare one’s streams of thought in consciousness with dreamt lagoons. I feel that my success so far is having sense enough to float. Imagination proves the water. Words are but the boat. My writing is the result of thinking, and my thoughts are the upshot of experience. I try never to forget the importance of that particular sequence. No matter the genre or style in question, writers—the real ones—share one thing in common: they’re curious. Not by trade. By nature and have to dig it all. There’s soul-searching, sure, but not just one’s own. One has to feel others—have empathy, love. Poetical license has little value to those who know nothing of life’s real roads. My gender, heritage and homeland are parts of who I am...but hardly the biggest. Literature and Creativity have little interest in borders. My inspiration? Everything that is and isn’t...yet.

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