Enchanted Times: A Collection of Poems on Being and Loving

By Vijay Singh

The major thrust of this book is an attempt to elucidate, and to linger on and prolong the reverie of those precious enchanted moments when the place, the time and I had merged into one luminous reality.

As an example, one summer night, turning the corner, I was enchanted by this bright silvery light, which filled my eyes, face, and the forest around me. Soon I figured out that this was not an apparition, just the streak of moonlight reflecting off the lake! Still, through words I wanted to re-live the above enchanting time; so I wrote a poem.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Aug 2, 2017
• ISBN: 9781543441543

Vijay Singh

Vijay Singh is a dreamer-poet in his leisure hours and a research scientist in professional work. At present, he is Robinson Chair Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Kentucky, Lexington. His pioneering research work in solar cells, nanotechnology, electroluminescent displays and sensors has been published in 200 articles in scientific journals, and as U.S. patents. Vijay did his Ph.D. work in Electrical Engineering at University of Minnesota, where he met his artist wife, Carolyn (http://laudablemudstudio.com/). This is Vijay’s 4th poetry book; it was edited by his dear friend, Mary Margaret Adams, author of “A Prayer for Sammy”.

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Copyright © 2017 by Vijay Singh.

Cover Art: Integration, by Carolyn Diana Schmitz Singh. Copyright © 2001

Library of Congress Control Number:   2017911861

ISBN:            Hardcover            978-1-5434-4081-2

                      Softcover             978-1-5434-4082-9

                      eBook                  978-1-5434-4154-3

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Rev. date: 07/29/2017

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Contents

1.   Claustrophobia

2.   Play Time

3.   Puzzle Of Life

4.   The Flip Side

5.   Sure Bet

6.   My Long Life

7.   Sunshine

8.   Lucky Me

9.   Dreams

10.   Complete

11.   Meadow

12.   Arrival

13.   By The Sea

14.   Bliss

15.   Bliss Hindered

16.   Shivanand

17.   Sleepy Bliss

18.   An Occasion For Joy

19.   An Instant Or Two

20.   Waking Up

21.   This Now

22.   Such Grace

23.   Time Enough

24.   Hawk And Me, And The Oak Tree

25.   Belonging

26.   Fathers’ Shoulders

27.   How Else

28.   Few Moments

29.   What I Am

30.   Living Well

31.   Breathe Air / Embrace Light

32.   Narratives

33.   Thanks

34.   Not Sad

35.   Awakeness

36.   Wanderer

37.   Sunset In Kauai

38.   Forms

39.   Light And Matter

40.   Fork In The Road

41.   Dreamy Side

42.   In The Mirror

43.   Aspen Grove

44.   Days Of Youth

45.   Jewels

46.   Awareness

47.   Rio Grande

48.   Many Lives

49.   Pocketful

50.   Mark It

51.   Sound And Fury

52.   A Cure

53.   Shivoham

54.   Root Of Bliss

55.   Waves

56.   Sufficient

57.   Arriving

58.   Not Greedy

59.   Artifacts

60.   Easy Pleasures

61.   September

62.   Just This

63.   Wings

64.   After Such Grace

65.   A Comparison

66.   After The Rain

67.   Art Of Living

68.   Clean Up

69.   Heaven On Kentucky River Parkway

70.   Breath Away

71.   Each Breath

72.   Like It Should Be

73.   Before And After

74.   Breathing

75.   River And Sun

76.   Endless Measure

77.   Learning To Ride

78.   This Moment

79.   Enchantment

80.   One Mind

81.   Dewdrops

82.   Limitations

83.   When Not Dancing

84.   In Jalaalpur

85.   Where To Go

86.   Rubbish Outside

87.   Good Fortune

88.   Love And Time

89.   Life As Theatre

90.   Misconstruing

91.   On A Warm Day

92.   In My Thoughts

93.   On The Veranda

94.   Father And Son

95.   Points Of View

96.   A Happy Life

97.   Learning To Ride – (Pitajee And I)

98.   Heaven

99.   On The Shore

100.   Our Time

101.   As Good

102.   Times

103.   As Best We Can

104.   Waiting

105.   Moving On

106.   Ways

107.   The Melting

108.   Familial Anchor

109.   Our Time

110.   Better Yet

111.   Farewell

112.   Goddess And I

113.   Intense Transience

114.   Transient Intensity

115.   A Photograph

116.   Good Enough

117.   Not Graced

118.   Soulmate

119.   Body Of Evidence

120.   Gratefulness

121.   Uniting

122.   Grateful

123.   Asha’s Arrival

124.   From The Airplane

125.   Once Upon

126.   A Walk

127.   An Evening

128.   Not Romantic Enough

129.   Our Lives

DEDICATION

This book is dedicated to my lovely wife, Carolyn Diana Schmitz Singh. So exceptional are her beauty and generosity of spirit that she must be a goddess who has taken, for a while,