A Smile of Ages

By Aastha Shukla

Aastha Shukla, born on September 7, 1994 is a student living in India. She has a liberal style of writing and intends to relate to her readers. She wanders in her imagination, carrying the depth and innocence of her feelings. The literary and philosophical approach of the young poetess might change your ideas of age and sanity. Her inclination towards poetry and literature has ripened her mind beyond age and experiences. In most of her poems, she sounds solitary, yet expressive. The dream to reach out to more people and bring to them substance is her only effort by this soft cover. The book is your good companion if you believe in Love, Magic, Abstract, Insights, Solitude and The unseen. Her simple ideas about the little things we all ponder upon will reach to melodize your heart at once.

The author also writes in Hindi, with an inclination towards Urdu vocabulary.
The pen name Rida is an Urdu word and it stands for the act of being contented.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Partridge Publishing India
• Release date: Dec 12, 2014
• ISBN: 9781482839661

Aastha Shukla

The poetess has free style of writing and intends to relate to her readers. Aastha Shukla, a twenty-year-old student, had done her schooling from Sri Sathya Sai Vidya Vihar, Indore, Madhya Pradesh lives in India and is currently pursuing her engineering course. The literary and philosophical approach of the young poetess might change your ideas of age and sanity. She wishes to change little places in the heart and mind of her readers. Her inclination toward poetry and literature has ripened her mind beyond life’s experiences. In most of her poems, she sounds private yet expressive. Her dream to reach people and bring to them substantial depths is her only effort by this hard cover. The book is your good companion if you believe in love, magic, abstract, insights, solitude, and the unseen. Her simple ideas about the little things we all ponder upon will reach to melodize your heart at once.

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A Smile of Ages

AASTHA SHUKLA

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Copyright © 2014 by Aastha Shukla.

ISBN:          Softcover          978-1-4828-3967-8

                    eBook             978-1-4828-3966-1

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Contents

1.   Solitary Words

2.   Barefoot

3.   Childish Longing

4.   Rains, Folks.

5.   All that’d go

6.   Am I fading away?

7.   Piece of rhyme

8.   Insecure minds

9.   The Greater Love

10. Sunset

11. Journey o’ Life

12. No Promises

13. My Loneliness

14. I promised you a Poem

15. Fall in Love

16. Sounding of my mind’s ocean

17. You, be you.

18. The sound of sea waves

19. A smile of ages

20. To your sound, I plea.

21. The pain in the poetry

22. Dusk and Dawn

23. The people who persists

24. Invisible

25. The heavy heart

26. On Rains

27. A Girl in the City

28. The Nakedness of your soul

29. On Insights

30. The better face

31. Littlest Thought

32. Who’d have thought?

33. It rains over me

34. We’d preserve

35. Illumine

36. The Power