Untouched

By Bardar

"Untouched by Bardar contains poetry written by a young man where he contends with issues of growing up, the world around him, confusions, fantasies, longing as he grapples with a poetic language that is still raw and fraught, but honest and heart-felt. His poetry is an earnest attempt to create a dialogue with his readers. As a practicing musician, his verse is influenced by the world of songs and songwriters, as does daily events like kidnapping and sexual abuse, cosmology, psychology and comedy. I wish him a wonderful start to a fruitful creative career".

SUDEEP SEN, Postmarked India: New & Selected Poems (HarperCollins) & The HarperCollins Book of English Poetry (editor)

• Language: English
• Publisher: Partridge Publishing India
• Release date: Jun 9, 2014
• ISBN: 9781482823134

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Contents

Preface

Abduction

1.   Abduction I

2.   Poison Iris

3.   Abduction Ii

4.   Melancholia

5.   Going Back To Life Again

6.   Stockholm Syndrome

7.   Trauma

8.   Sleep My Child

Cosmos

9.   Beyond

10.   Gravity

11.   From The Outside

12.   Before The Fall

13.   Tree-House

14.   Alien Love

Mistakes

15.   Marriage

16.   The Ghost

17.   The Man Behind The Mirror

18.   The Boy From The Past

19.   Kissing Your Thorny Lips

20.   Masked Men

21.   Divorce

22.   Resignation

23.   Null

The Songwriter

24.   Compliance

25.   Song

26.   News

27.   Postcards

28.   Autobiography

29.   The Severed Poet

30.   Stage Fears

31.   Songwriter’s Block

Independent Poems

32.   Paradox

33.   Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present

34.   The Sleeping Children

35.   Beyond Your Goodness

36.   Rage

37.   Not Morning Yet

38.   All About You

39.   Lekshman Rekha

Sketching Credits

Sketchers’ Bio

Author’s Bio

Preface

A bout a year ago, I wrote a song called Stockholm Syndrome. I played the riffs, harmonised them in the chords section and improvised the guitar solo. When I was done with the music, I sat down to write the lyrics and created an imaginary character of a girl who had some sympathy for a person who was in jail. However, she was not able to find any logic behind her sympathy because that