Éclat: An Anthology of Poems

By Keertana Pillai

Depression, anger, happiness, and lonelinessarent your emotions reflected back at you in your surroundings?

Embark upon the wonderful adventure of personifying everything in your sight with varied emotions and relating to them by discovering them in the lilting voice of poetryclat.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Partridge Publishing India
• Release date: Jan 11, 2017
• ISBN: 9781482888058

Keertana Pillai

Keertana is a thirteeen-year-old girl living in Kerala, India with her parents and brother. She loves to read and is very fond of singing and playing the guitar. This is her first book ever to be published and she hopes to explore the horizons of diverse genres of writing in the future.

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An Introduction

Éclat is a pursuit of what I have a penchant for—an extraordinary brilliance, in the most mundane.

In my daily life, I have always tried to add a bit of enigma to every emotion, every feeling I experience, and make it unique.

In our daily lives, we must strive hard to remove the mirage clouding our senses that makes everything seem ordinary, and instead wonder about the miracles behind every little thing.

People might look similar, but each one of us has a mind-boggling and unique speciality, that sets us apart from every other person.

And, that, precisely is the greatest achievement–to find the extraordinary in the mundane itself, and not as a recluse above all ordinary things, who seeks miracles, but forgets that they are miracles because they can’t be given an identity. They are found everywhere.

They are found in little baby