A Journey to Remember: Poems

By Jai Narayan

This collection of poetry, blank verses, expresses the authors unique experiences and imagination. A reader will experience numerous moods and facets of love in the poems. The author also examines the intricacies of life and pain caused by the evil acts of man. He shows his great admiration and appreciation for the beauty of the natural world.
Certainly, this collection of poetry is a moving journal, written with smooth language, of thoughts and feelings of the author.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Jan 29, 2007
• ISBN: 9781465330031

Jai Narayan

Jai Narayan was born in the Fiji Islands, in the South Pacific. He is a retired high school teacher. He graduated with a B.A. from San Francisco State University in 1961. After post graduate studies for his M.A., he returned to his home country where he taught at several high schools. In Fiji he attended the University of the South Pacific and completed Post graduate Certificate in Teaching. He migrated to the United States in 1979. In mid 1980s he completed Post Doctorate studies at the Pacific Western University in Encino, California. Now he lives in South San Francisco, California. The National Library of Poetry presented the Editors Choice Award to Jai Narayan for Outstanding Achievements in Poetry in 1996.

Book preview

GRAND CANYON

Thou art a super creation

Of a timeless work of a river,

Zigzagging in downward quest,

Tortuously eroded thee,

Into a most intricate works of art!

As a Nature’s living wonder,

With unmatched grandeur on earth,

Basking in peace and solitude.

The river with its copious waters

Roars dangerously between thy walls,

Boisterously on downward journey.

Thou art a Nature’s mystic canyon,

Once I stood on thy rim

And my legs trembled with fear!

Yet I managed to see thy charm

In the vastness of thy silence.

The river’s eternal works of art,

How magnificent is thy name:

Grand Canyon of the Golden