Poems and a Parable from the Gypsy of the Yellow and Black Car

By Vikramjeet Sinha

The poems bring about the different stages of the artist/therapists life, both personal torments as well as spiritual quests. The struggles within and the struggle outside. An artist and an art therapists has a inner journey both from the creative angle, as well as from the psychological realm of dealing with individuals who go through deep pain as well with the inner struggle of the artist who absorbs the futility , fatigue and the fear of daily life looking to transform the pain into a possibility.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Partridge Publishing India
• Release date: Feb 12, 2016
• ISBN: 9781482870404

Vikramjeet Sinha

The author has graduated from Jai Hind College, Bombay University with a degree in English literature; he has also completed his Masters in Sociology at the Delhi School of Economics. He is an art-based therapist from the World Centre of Creative Learning in Poona, and has also done a four year certificate course in art therapy based on Rudolf Steiner‘s understanding of colours. He lives in New Delhi India.

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Dedicated to

Abhijit Mazumder for teaching me to write poetry

and to

Rustom Mistry for reading none of them,

but making me live every minute of my poems

poems and a parable from the gypsy of the yellow and black car

Vikramjeet Sinha

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Copyright © 2016 by Vikramjeet Sinha.

ISBN:      Softcover      978-1-4828-7041-1

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Contents

1. Addicts of intensity

2. Another time

3. For the nomads

4. Yellow moon

5. Olly pub

6. A fast Train

7. A strange wetness

8. Crucible churning

9. Shambho revisited

10. Savage and the Beautiful

1. Savage

2. Beautiful

11. Nights-one

Nights --two

12. Crude cravings

13. About Ram and the White Mountain

14. Running with me

15. And you say even ....

16. About Ram and the blue bird

17. Two hundred and fifty million people in my bed

18. Just a trifle madness

19. The house by the river

20. To you

21. To the other

22. Torrential rains

23. On becoming Guha (secrets) (a cave)

24. Karjat and the varied longings

1. Returning home, November 2010

2. Turning to the sun

3. Longing!

4. Poetics of the mundane

5. City of worms

6. Moroccan tea with Jesus Mary and me

7. Hospital moments

8. Transformation and the road to further transition

9. The white vampire and his eternal beloved

10. Thoughts on leaves

11. Siddhartha

12. Just us ... a poetic parable

13. There was once a boy

25. The namless bunch (2014- 2016)

1. Addicts of intensity

We are Peculiar creatures of the hour,

we move with the stink of the thought fox,

The nose that muzzles through,

The dense know how, and the repetitions of many,

A crowded wave

Nameless, faceless thoughts edging ourselves.

Away pushing

All of us pour hurtling, like misplaced carriages,

The abyss simply stares back,

the burdens of force that speed us,

At such an