Being Purple

By Saranya Francis

A touch of colour to a greying world
A smile under a blazing sun
A flower abloom on a misty morn
To whom being itself is fun

A lonesome star on a cold dark night
That makes you smile even when you're lost
A friend who will give you a hand to hold
And a shoulder that thaws morose frost

Laughter that bubbles from the soul
Tears that well from the heart
Wisdom that is wrapped in innocence
Like the meaning hidden within art

'Being Purple' is all of the above and more. Here is a repertoire of strong emotions, the emotions of a woman in love, denial, ecstacy and poignant reminiscence. There are times when a simple verse is all it takes to heal an aching soul - be it of the reader or the poet, this collection is a result of many such healing moments.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Partridge Publishing India
• Release date: May 19, 2014
• ISBN: 9781482821185

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Contents

Stray Verse

From Words To Silence…

Preface

Meenakshi

Whimsical Rain

Silence…

Autumn Awakening

Bewilderment

Discernment

Who Am I?

Hugs

Envy

The Dawn By Sea

You Need A Form To Pray?

Conform Or Perish

Let Me Be

Abandon

A Shadow Is All I Need

Incomplete

Tell Me

And She Came Down

Comfort

Twelve Months

Eden Hues

Horizon

Beckoning—Awakening

Choice

Reia

A Simple Song

Scream Of Silence

One

. . . And It Passed Me By

How Much Man Is In Need Of The Child…

Rape Of The Lover

The Maiden, The Moon,The Muse

Summer

On Her Betrayal

Winter And Away…

To The Divine…The Truth

What December Brings

STRAY VERSE

Caravans Of poetry travelling amok

unable to decide what to say what not

all it knows is this journey celebrating

the new beginning the meet and depart

For Appa…

FROM WORDS TO SILENCE…

When Mathew Arnold speaks of Shelly, he could say, "Shelly is a blind and ineddectual angel, beating his