Field of Paper Flowers: An Anthology of English Poems

By Ayaz Warith

Field of Paper Flowers is an anthology of poems about personal experience of love and loss, faith, age and youth, philosophy, nature, and the day-to-day events of developing India. Many of the poems are written during the time when a boy was becoming a young man, when change and development was educating him through the hardship and happiness of life.
Field of Paper Flowers is the first collection of the Paper Poems series. The poems are categorized in five sections, viz Reverence, Love and Sadness, Philosophy and Inspiration, Nature, and Miscellaneous.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Partridge Publishing India
• Release date: Feb 11, 2015
• ISBN: 9781482844689

Ayaz Warith

Ayaz Warith was born on September 6, 1979, and lives in Ludhiana, India, where he teaches English as a second language. He did his schooling from St. Francis School, Varanasi, and received his master’s degree in English from Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapith in Varanasi, India. He is also a TESOL certified professional working for his own institute.

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Contents

Preface

Reverence

Like a Butterfly

I Want to Live Forever

Save Me, My Lord

To My Creator

Mercy

The Volume of Life

Love and Sadness

Blessed

The Flower of Love

A Heavy Sigh

Contentment

It is Not a Dream

Eclipse

You Erupt in Bosom

I Promise

Cruel Love

Hatred

Deep in My Thoughts

Love Changes

Let Me Tell You

The Reason of Treason

I Wonder

Sacrifices

Never Withdraw

Where Are You?

Wade Through Me

If I am Stumbling

My Tears

I Tell You

Love Letter

Ask the Locked Doors

What Every Heart Feels

Who Knows?

Love’s Wings

Come from the Exit Door

Living

The Book is Full of Your Day

If Tears Say

Philosophy and Inspiration

Relief

The Doors are Locked

Heart’s Ocean

Momentous Journey

When the Mind is Free

The River is Flowing

None Hears

O Heart

Someone is Calling by My Name

Bygone Days

Life is Youth

The Heart of a Boy

Shattered

Adventures

The Enigma

The Station of Life

Who Can Steal?

A Desire

The Heart Blooms

Old Furniture

Poet’s Pen

Not Moonlight’s Love

Breath is Life

Still Alive

Time has the Swiftest Wings

Last Night

Hope

Out in the World

Dreaming

The World of my Life

Determination

Deception

In My Belief

Tonight

Waiting

I Ask

Just Peep

Nature

My Solace

The Bête Noire

The Night

The Second Birth

A Tree

Shimla

Wash Me, Rain

The Nebulous Mist

Miscellaneous

My Eyelids Droop

Career

The Hawker

The Rickshaw Puller

Who Does Not Want?

A Family

I Teach

The Queen of the Night

Difference

Biased

Mistake

Their Complaints

I was Never Her Leader

Preface

Bismillaah!

Field of Paper Flowers is my first Anthology of poems which is based on the real events of my life. There is much more reality than imagination in this book and I am thankful to Him Who gave me life in this world which spontaneously encouraged me to compose all these poems and compile them in a form of a book. But I should honestly tell my readers that I am not a technical verse writer and my poems are mere manifestation of my genuine feelings in print.

Poetry is not fiction. It is the reality like our beings and hence it is an integral part of my self. There are many definitions of poetry and every poet gives his own views about this supreme part of literature. But very simple and true idea about poetry is Wordsworth’s. He says it is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings, and I believe it is true. But Dylan Thomas says, that Poetry is what makes me laugh or cry or yawn, what makes my toenail twinkle, what makes me want to do this or that or nothing.

Yes, poetry is very much oral with the language which is very refined and superior, and it is fathomed and sensed by its readers to differ from the common essay. Poets are very critical in conveying the emotions and feelings to the audience in a very compressed and condensed manner. And since poem is the food of ears and not eyes, poets take pain in using the devices and techniques such as allegory, assonance, alliteration, climax, hyperbole, imagery, irony, metaphor, mood, onomatopoeia, oxymoron, paradox, personification, simile, tragedy and many others.

In so far as my poems are concerned, I have used rhyme scheme in some of them but most of my poems are in Free Verse style. They are unrhymed without any particular metrical pattern because writing in Free Verse gives me the liberty and easiness in expressing my emotions and the boat of my thoughts wanders freely on the stream of paper. I want to look at the things and feel them as I feel my body, my being and my business, and this watching the things gives me the immense