A Drifter: Poems & Verses

By Abheek Rastogi

A Poets journey
How can I decipher my journey, as a poet?
When, poetry kept on floating in and out of my life at its sweet will.
The poems & verses are an expression of my inner self,
A personal universe of words.
Words, scribbled during odd minutes, hours, days.
Words, springing from feelings, images and situations that I confronted every day.
Words, fluttering inside me and finding wings to land on one blank sheet of paper after another..
Words, companions of my cloistered persona, helping me to overcome periods of personal crisis..
I was a willing prisoner, who found freedom in words.
The beauty of poetry,
It can break your heart, It can also heal it
And, I would have remained the solitary reader.
Till, I thought of sharing my world of words with public at large. They are accompanied by paintings and photographs that became an integral part of me in pursuit of personal happiness.
Let these poems and verses find empathy from its readers .

• Language: English
• Publisher: Partridge Publishing India
• Release date: Jul 25, 2015
• ISBN: 9781482851960

Abheek Rastogi

In A Drifter, the poetic journey of Abheek Rastogi, the thinker in him ponders over existential dilemmas of his life..And, the emotional man inside him seeks companionship and solace in words to cope with feelings and situations confronting him. The poems are suffused with a sad beauty, it can break your heart, it can also heal it.

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Copyright © 2015 by Abheek Rastogi.

ISBN:      Softcover       978-1-4828-5197-7

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Contents

What is a poem?

A Poet’s journey ………

Poet & Poetry

I Bare My Soul

Exile

Poet & Poetry

Meditations

Imagination

Time

Destiny

Line of Joy

Human relationships

The valleys of mind

Dream vs. Life

A Drifter

Time

Love

Cigarette smoke & drifting mind

Eyes of Time

Portraits of family life

A Birthday Gift

Sparkling eyes

I retrace my steps

A Cocktail

Poets are Born only once ............

Remembrance

A Vision

The Face in the mirror

On Death of My Father

On Death of My Father

External world

Dove

Freedom

The Lost Father

Revolution

A Rally

A Cactus Blooms

An Urban Wish

Where have all the Gulmohars gone?

Clouds

Monsoon Moments

Homage to Van gogh

The dream of Van gogh

Darkness inside, brightness outside

A beggar boy

A God in Stone

Reflections

Burning embers

Empty Benches

Date, Month, Year………….

My abandoned self

Let Everyone Hear

My Karma

Home coming

Evening

Dreams- I

Dreams- II

Tomorrow, Today, Tomorrow

The last evening

Few years later,

Soul Vs ego

Is God a poet?

Dream

Ash on Roses

Morning Abstract Shit

What a poem?

Every day

Only those things are beautiful,

which are inspired by madness and written by reason.

                                                                    Andre Gide

What is a poem?

What is a poem?

How a poem is born?

A poem is a drifting feeling

A poem is born

                        from the pen of a distressed soul,

Comes out howling

Like an infant

                      out of womb of a distressed mother.

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A Poet’s journey ………

How can I decipher my journey, as a poet?

When, poetry kept on floating in and out of my life at its sweet will. These poems & verses are an expression of my inner self,

                  a personal universe of words…….

        Words, scribbled during odd minutes, hours, days…

        Words, springing from feelings, images and situations that I confronted