Hymns from the Heart: Verses and Lyrical Notes

By Asha Iyer Kumar

Using simple language to impress profound thoughts on Love in its purest form, 'Hymns from the Heart' is a melody that will touch and heal the heart. Each verse appeals to the highest order of aesthetics in a unique way and gently taps into the poetry that lies slumbering in each of us. It works like a salve to soothe the soul hassled by modern, material concerns. It is a symbol of what defines our existence Love and its spiritual magnificence.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Partridge Publishing India
• Release date: Dec 15, 2014
• ISBN: 9781482842456

Asha Iyer Kumar

As a freelance journalist, author and poet, Asha Iyer Kumar has dabbled in various genres of writing. She made her literary debut with the novel Sandstorms, Summer Rains in 2009 and is presently a columnist with Khaleej Times, Dubai, writing on Life and Living. Asha has a degree in Mass Communication and Journalism from the University of Kerala. She is also a creative writing tutor, and her interest in other forms of visual art has seen her foray into painting and photography as well. She lives in Dubai with her family.

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Contents

Verses

Poem of Love

From Where My Words Emerge

Tears and Rain

Out of Love

An Ode to Pain

To a Meteor

Tryst with My Love

On the Beach

My Love for You

Romancing the Moon

A Night with My Princess

Departure

Maiden in Waiting

Love’s Grace

Adieu

Absurd Love

Homecoming

Adultery

To a Creek

Many Moods of Love

Lost at Sea

In Love with a Haze

On Separate Shores

The Veil of ‘I’

The Secret Lure

A Stranger in Town

Staying Awake

I am..

Do You Remember?

Starry-eyed

You and I

Tale of the Gods

Mortal and Absolute Love

Drowned in the Sea

You are That

Nocturnal Song

A Flower’s Love Notes

Drowning in Love

Discourse

Song of a Vacant Reed

Love Notes

Passage of Time

A Broken Seashell

A Walk in the Woods

Rain and River Ditties

Word Games

Lost, Found and Lost

When Spring Arrived

Ache

A Woman in Angst

Love’s Tapestry

Rhymester

From You I learnt

The Wax Ball and Fire

Beauty and Love

Rhymes

What Are You, My Love?

Home Everywhere

If it’s True

Rainbow Man

Remembering a Love

The Tree and the Shade

Seeking Grace

Differences

Half Open Heart

The Source of Joy

Sacred Hymn

Driftwood and Flotsam

Should You Leave, My Friend

Love in the Wilderness

Summer and the Desert Lass

An Ode to Silence

Resurrection

Quatrains

Couplets

To my master, my muse and my man

Foreword

In every publication there are certain contributors who become intrinsic to the style and image of the product. Their columns enhance the editorial content in tangible terms, and the publication and the writer grow in tandem.

Asha Iyer Kumar’s weekly column is one such dimension to Khaleej Times. Not only is her style entertaining but also thought-provoking.

The arts and sciences have always been avenues where the milestones mark every interaction between the giver and the recipient. For writers like Asha, their words are their best bet for posterity. As a storyteller, life experiences are her grist and the combination of truth and imagination is where she delicately reflects the power and the glory of her pen. After an impressive debut with her novel, Sandstorms, Summer Rains in 2009 in which she painted word pictures of life, love and loss, she puts her creative elements into effective use again in her first book of verse, Hymns from the Heart that she compiled from her writings of just over a