Reflections Rhyme and Reason

By Omar H. Malik

This book is a sequel to the authors well-received first publication, Reflections: Mirror of My Mind.

In this book, he continues his exploration of the purity, serenity, and tranquility of nature that, over the years, has been in slow decline due to sustained human intervention and its insatiable drive for prosperity.

With the poems Four Seasons, Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter, the author beautifully captures the changing faces of nature through the seasons. Within this theme, the simplicity, purity, and joy of nature are also encapsulated in poems such as Bluebells, Birdsong, Daffodil, and Daybreak.

Taking a more critical but no less engaging perspective, the overwhelming influence of machines in modern society is explored in Man and Machine, while such issues as overpopulation and pollution are evaluated in Essence of Creation and Ocean.

Furthermore, the author gives us his insight into the duality of perception, conception, reason, and volition in skillfully crafted Dual Core.

These are but a glimpse of the many thought-provoking poems in this book, which, like anything of value, should be revisited and savoured to be truly appreciated.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse UK
• Release date: Apr 29, 2016
• ISBN: 9781524631703

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Published by AuthorHouse 04/27/2016

ISBN: 978-1-5246-3171-0 (sc)

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I dedicate this book to my four grandchildren

Jessica, Annabelle, and twins Kailen and Malika.

CONTENTS

POETRY IN MOTION

REFLECTIONS

AWAITING IN ANTICIPATION

A LEAF’S LEASE OF LIFE

A POTENT POWER

ANGER

ANIMAL INSTINCT

ANSWER IS THERE IS NO ANSWER

AUTUMN

BEAUTIFUL GIFT OF NATURE

BEAUTY IN TIMEFORM

BIRDSONG

BLUEBELLS

BULL FIGHT

BUS STOP

COLOURS

DAFFODIL

DARK ALLEY

DARK CLOUD

DAY BREAK

DUAL CORE

ESSENCE OF CREATION

FACE

FIRST LOVE

FORGIVENESS

FORTUNE FAVOURED AT BIRTH

FOUR SEASONS

HOPE

IF ONLY

LIFESPAN

MAN AND MACHINE

MY LOVE FOR YOU

OCEAN

PATH FINDERS

PEACE CONUNDRUM

PRIVATE CITIZEN

RAT RACE

ROBIN REDBREAST

SEPTEMBER SONG

SILENT NIGHT

SILENT WITNESS

SIX SENSES OF SUCCESS

SOLDIERS

SPRING

STEPPING STONES

SUMMER

TRANQUILLITY

TWIN BIRTH

UNDER AN OLD WILLOW TREE

WINTER

WISH

POETRY IN MOTION

An expression of emotion,

Of words in animation,

A philosophical message,

An allegorical passage,

An observation captured,

In lucid language pictured,

An enlightened literature,

A chronology of culture,

A reflection of life and time,

Expressed in rhythm and rhyme.

22.12.2013

REFLECTIONS

Earth’s eternal journey through space

On a path not marked, leaving no trace,

Following a fixed imaginary orbit,

Orbit repeating an annual circuit,

A timeless, ceaseless celestial journey,

Solar secrets hiding a vital key.

Inhabiting this electro-magnetic sphere,

Curious, is any one in outer space there?

Matter, energy, fertility and mortality,

Beauty, love, knowledge and ambiguity,

Abstract energy and emotions,

Physical existence and erosions.

An audio-visual synchrony of consciousness,

Perceptions and conceptions five senses harness;

Darkness and light, night and day, clock creation,

Relativity, gravity, light, space, time and motion –

Images and imprints uniquely defined

In reflections in the mirror of mind.

21.05.2014

AWAITING IN