Vernal Strokes

By Latha Prem Sakhya

There is in each one of us a treasure trove of memories. Often times, in the rigmarole of daily life we tend to forget these special moments. We forget what it was like to feel, wonder, to be grateful or to experience love. Vernal Strokes lets you sit back as Latha Prem Sakhya walks you through those moments once again. As you retrospect with the poet you will once again feel nature, experience love, face tribulations and re-affirm your whole being. The reader will be forced to take a minute to look back at the finer details in his/her life. As you see life through Lathas eyes you see a life lived in love with nature, with her family and with her spouse. But the key takeaway here is the reminder of how closely intertwined man was with nature. The older generations can reminisce, the younger ones can have glimpse of what they are missing. But the ardent reader will be forced to see the world with a fresh pair of eyes, bereft of the walls that civilization has imposed on us all the true, yet utopian idea of man, beast and nature as one whole family. In conclusion, this is a generous, kind and heartwarming collection of poems that one can turn to each time you feel life is just going on. It will take you through an array of experiences and myriad of emotions that can bring back the MAGIC that God expects and man deserves to have in ones life.
Reny M John

• Language: English
• Publisher: Partridge Publishing India
• Release date: Nov 11, 2015
• ISBN: 9781482859003

Latha Prem Sakhya

Latha Prem Sakhya(1959-) hails from Neyyoor in the Kanyakumari district of Tamilnadu, India. She did her school education in the Holy Angel’s Convent, and college in His Highness the Maharaja’s College for Women, Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala). She was the former Head and Associate Professor of the Department of English of Mar Thoma College for Women, Perumbavoor in Kerala, India. At present she leads a retired life with her husband Yogeendra Sakhya k. at Perumbavoor. Her only daughter, Dr. Jennifer Sakhya, resides with her husband and two children. Memory Rain, her first collection of poems, was published in 2008. Her second book Nature at My Doorstep( 2011) is a compilation of her poems, musings, sketches and paintings. Latha in her poignant outpouring Vernal Strokes, reaches the hearts of the readers, awakening them to a world of beauty and anguish. Ecstasy and agony dwell hand in hand with each other; yet the quest does not end there – her words are a mirror to the world of the lonely, the sick and the suffering. She draws us into her universe which is easy to identify with and be a part of. Her poems reflect a candour and transparency which can shock the readers out of their apathy. In this era of haste and race against one another and time, her poems are a refreshing mirror into life in all its myriad forgotten forms – the small and the simple are brought before us; gripping in their reality. Vernal Strokes is a clarion call to the reader to wake up to a world that soothes, reminds and nourishes with beauty, pain, and hope. A close friend of nature, Latha shares her unhappiness in humanity’s disregard for mother earth. To those of us ‘deafened by the roar of materialistic living’ these poems bring hope. She paints her ‘magic in the air’ with her words – a magic that does not disappear, but lingers within the reader.

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Contents

Preface

Acknowledgement

Foreword

Words from My Heart

Growing Up

Down Memory Lane

Reminiscence

Girl

Why Are You So Crazy?

Dreams

Airy Dreams

Love or Fantasy

Your Love For Me

Fortress

Stolen Pleasures

Relationship

Will You Remember Me?

So Near yet So Far

Vain Love

Wailing Banshee

Where is The Gentle Shower of Love?

Did I Tell You?

Butterfly

Ache

Hurt

Shards

Patching Up

Prop

Tiny World

My Child

Camaraderie

A Mother’s Day

New Nest

Waiting

Eve

A Wild Terrain

Lamp

The Uncanny Singer

Dream Child

Corina

Dimpled Angel

Bereft

Agony

Temptation

Zombie

Lonely Plight

When the Birds Sing

Taj Mahal

Black Knight

Aria

Spark

Elizabeth

Aylan Kurdi

Game of Survival

To Irom Shormila

To Live Freely

Hope

Onam

The Crown of Creation

Elves and Goblins

Traitorous Thoughts

Chaotic Thoughts

Jekyll and Hyde

A Feathery Thing

A Ride on Fancy’s Wings

Drying Spring

The Trapped Bird

Visibility

Wild Woman

Perennial Inspiration

Rocking Lap

Paattie

You and I

Black Beaded Chain

The First Christmas Card

Nature’s Magic Spell

Notes of Joy

Little Mynah

Minnows

The Rill

Boys and Girls

Evening Sky

Intimacy

Memory

Tree

Love Birds

The Winged Offenders

Earth Mother

Magic in the Air

What Am I Now?

Wild Furies

Placid Pond

Where Shall We Go?

Anguish

Shaddock

Lord of the Night

Shall I Let Her Go?

Sans Fangs, Sans Teeth

Ecstasy

Nature at My Doorstep

Extended Family

Memento

Colours of Eternity

Light

Infinite Love

Latha Prem Sakhya

Latha Prem Sakhya (Born, Latha Prem Kumari B. on 21 January 1959) hails from Neyyoor in the Kanyakumari district of Tamilnadu, India. She did her school education in the Holy Angel’s Convent, and college in His Highness the Maharaja’s College for Women, Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala). She was the former Head and Associate Professor of the Department of English of Mar Thoma College for Women, Perumbavoor in Kerala, India. At present she leads a retired life with her husband Yogeendra Sakhya k. at Perumbavoor. Her only daughter, Dr. Jennifer Sakhya, resides with her husband and two children.

Memory Rain, her first collection of poems, was published in 2008. Her second book Nature at My Doorstep( 2011) is a compilation of her poems, musings, sketches and paintings. Latha in her poignant outpouring Vernal Strokes, reaches the hearts of the readers, awakening them to a world of beauty and anguish. Ecstasy and agony dwell hand in hand with each other; yet the quest does not end there – her words are a mirror to the world of the lonely, the sick and the suffering. She draws us into her universe which is easy to identify with and be a part of. Her poems reflect a candour and transparency which can shock the readers out of their apathy. In this era of haste and race against one another and time, her poems are a refreshing mirror into life in all its myriad forgotten forms – the small and the simple are brought before us; gripping in their reality. Vernal Strokes is a clarion call to the reader to wake up to a world that soothes, reminds and nourishes with beauty, pain, and hope. A close friend of nature, Latha shares her unhappiness in humanity’s disregard for mother earth. To those of us ‘deafened by the roar of materialistic living’ these poems bring hope. She paints her ‘magic in the air’ with her words – a magic that does not disappear, but lingers within the reader.

By,

Prema Nair

Dedicated to

God Almighty

And to

You

Preface

That it will never come again

Is what makes life so sweet.

Emily Dickinson

Life is full of colour, warmth and light, and man, ever since his creation has been striving to capture it and make it a part of his life to attain