Reflections - Vignettes of Life: Poems over 3 Generations

By Aditya Sethi, Patanjali Sethi and Suneha Sethi

Celebrating lifemagical, wondrous, captivating, ironic! It inspires, provokes comment on events, incidents, social issues, lifes facets in todays world. We are an uncompromising, integral part of lifes journey, its philosophy, cynicism, and positivity. Their poignancy touches a chord, causing you to feel the poems and appreciate them as they mirror life. Readers will easily identify with and relate to many poems, where you may just see your life reflected in them.

Their poems, transcending three generations, take you into a world of varied writing styles, themes, which encapsulates their vision, opinions on what life holds for them.

They are philosophical, showcasing life in all its color, splendor, and magnitude. Sometimes cynical, they turn positive while covering lifes differing aspects.

The poems speaking mostly about lifes events, daily happenings, social matters, also question our very existence. Terrorism, the regular grind, lifes facades are projected in their inimitable poetic styles.

Vibrant, energetic-the poems are filled with thoughts on why things are what they are. They provoke you to ask yourself questions that may or may not provide you with acceptable answers. Poems that are expressive, if sometimes abstract, reflect a true account of life today.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Partridge Publishing India
• Release date: Nov 18, 2014
• ISBN: 9781482839463

Aditya Sethi

Patanjali Sethi was an eminent journalist with the Times of India, Mumbai. He wrote over three thousand articles on all his travels and experiences. Aditya Sethi wrote on life, reflecting social issues, events of our times. Suneha Sethi’s poems demonstrate her memorable and momentous journey into a teen’s world.

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Reflections

- Vignettes of Life

Poems Over 3 Generations

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Patanjali Sethi

Aditya Sethi

Suneha Sethi

Copyright © 2014 Patanjali Sethi, Aditya Sethi, Suneha Sethi. All rights reserved.

ISBN

978-1-4828-3946-3 (e)

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Table of Contents

DEDICATED

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

INTRODUCTION

(I) PATANJALI SETHI (1926-2000): FIRST GENERATION

1. IS IT A SHAM, REALLY?

2. A RESERVOIR

3. TO A TEENAGER

4. GROW OLD YOUTHFULLY

5. WHERE’S HOME?

6. GREATER ARCHITECT

7. THE FACE

8. GREAT EMPTINESS

9. STRANGE MUSIC

10. LOVE’S PSYCHE

11. TO A PSYCHOLOGIST

12. THE STATUE AND ME

13. THE DRAFT

14. TO THE QUIET ONE

15. YEARNING

16. THE CHOSEN

17. THE ALL EMBRACING

18. YOU AND I

19. EVER MORE, NEVER MORE

20. WARMTH LOST

21. THE CLOWN

22. IT’S UTTERLY FUTILE

23. ISLAND OF THE MIND

24. DON’T THINK OF ME

25. COURAGE TO LIVE

26. DISENCHANTMENT

27. TO SMILING SISTERS

28. LET THE DOVES FLY

29. THE VISIT

30. DANGER I SEEK

31. ONLY THE TRUTH

32. GRAB IT MAN

33. MY TWO WORLDS

34. THE LETTER

35. RETREAT IN LOVE

36. TO THEE

37. AUTOMATED

38. BETTER AN ENEMY

39. THE SUNSET

40. HEARTBREAK

41. GIBRANESQUE

42. WHEN GOD CEASES TO BE

(II) ADITYA SETHI (1963- ): SECOND GENERATION

1. THE DERELICT

2. TEST OF CHARACTER

3. PARADISE LOST

4. MIND OVER BODY

5. BEAST WITHIN

6. VOICES INSIDE MY HEAD

7. HEIGHTENED PARADOX

8. LOST IN TRANSLATION

9. SHOULDERING THE TRUTH

10. REMINISCENCES

11. THROUGH THE TEMPEST

12. SOULLESS MELODY

13. CYCLE OF LIFE

14. SEEKING PENANCE

15. FOOD FOR THOUGHT

16. FIVE YEAR CIRCUS!!

17. THE HIDDEN FACE

18. SENSELESS DESIGN

19. HOLLOW PRIDE

20. UNANSWERED INNOCENCE

21. YEARNING FOR A REASON

22. WEATHERING THE STORM

23. MISPLACED THOUGHTS

24. THE WINNER

25. LIFE WE LEAD

26. WITHOUT PREJUDICE

27. CHILDREN OF A LESSER GOD

28. DIRECTIONLESS

(III) SUNEHA SETHI (1997- ): THIRD GENERATION

1. FIGHTING LIFE

2. VOID TO FILL

3. ASYLUM

4. FRUSTRATION

5. OUTCASTE

6. WHILE I WAIT

7. SLEEPWALK

8. LET HER RUN FREE

9. MAPLE TREE

10. HIDE

11. INSOMNIA

12. AT GAIA’S END

13. LET IT FESTER

14. WHAT ARE YOU SO MUCH WRITING FOR?

15. STANDING ON HOPE

16. GOING TO DO THE THINGS I DREAD

17. A LITTLE GIRL INCONSOLABLE

18. THE FEAR OF FAILURE

19. THE BEST SCHOOL

20. CATHARSIS OF A HAUNTED MIND

21. MEN LIVE AS DOGS

22. FRUGAL

Dedicated

to my late father

Patanjali Sethi,

who was an eminent journalist, with The Times of India, Mumbai.

Principled and highly committed he was a modest man,

with strong convictions and exceptional values.

Attributes rarely found in people today!

Acknowledgements

Primarily LIFE itself!

Celebrating Life-Ironical, momentous, inspiring,

though often touching, moving, in its emotions and experiences.

Either way enigmatic, but mostly thought provoking in

nature and poetic in character!

Family members who have offered a supporting environment to

enable us to voice our feelings and views, through the decades,

as substantiated in these poems………….mirroring life!

INTRODUCTION

Each of the three generations of poets, enhance their work by show-casing certain themes in their poems. It covers the period, in their respective lives, that gave motion to their feelings and emotions. Projected are their thoughts