Zerinity

By ANT

The author has always maintained he is a conduit, and that the poetry and prose has come through him. There have been occasions when he understood the profoundness of the work after having written it.

By and large, the poems took the size of the paper he had in his hand. The beauty of the flow and the simplicity of words, coupled with the depth of the concept has been to him a source of creative joy, which simply must be shared.

These touch various aspects of life, spirituality, adolescence, love, character, time, and other topics like mathematics collated over the years as he evolved.

This is not a book to be read through at one go. One has to pause, ponder, digest, and then move to the next.

Other than the broad separation of poetry and prose, there has been no effort to slot them in by genre or chronologically. It is a kaleidoscope to be enjoyedan offering, so to say.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Partridge Publishing India
• Release date: May 17, 2017
• ISBN: 9781482888737

ANT

He is a retired defence helicopter pilot with combat experience, whose thoughts are original and different; unfettered by religion or tradition or any particular society, having a rich gene pool (Goan, Punjabi and Finnish) married 27 years to Chamzin. He has two children, Phoebe and Phaedrus

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Copyright © 2017 by ANT (ANTHONY RANJIT SINGH MENDONCA).

ISBN:            Hardcover            978-1-4828-8875-1

                      Softcover              978-1-4828-8874-4

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Contents

PART 1 POETRY

When I Try

The Suburban Hermit

OM

Run the Gauntlet

Salut

Passing the Baton

Breakout

Beauty

Rebel

Who Me?

Manna

Midas

Plasticine

A Glimpse

Freedom

Its Only Me

Pollen

Why?

I Die

Glass

Forgive Me

No Wonder

Recognition

Conduit

View Values

Void

Braille

Structural Stability

Resurrection

Still Moving

Zerinity

Witness

Union?

Life

PART 2 PROSE

Traipsing

Base Premise

Window 1: Terms And Conditions Apply

Window 2: Dust to Dust

Window 3: No body / None other

Window 4: What exactly is yours?

Window 5: No Individual Soul

Window 6: Chemicals, Feelings and Nirvana

Window 7: Constructive Destruction

Window 8: Colour Printer Gone Wild

Window 9: Memories are Me

Window 10: Don’t Mind

Window 11: Mobile Apps

Window 12: Slave Becoming Master

Window 13: The Silver Ball

Window 14: No Time, No Direction, For Meditation

Window 15: No Holy Place

Window 16: Track and Field

Window 17: The Sine Curve of Life

Window 18: Rubber Band

Window 19: Rate of change, or Dy/ Dx = Happiness

Window 20: Nirguna Brahman

Window 21: Tat

Dedicated To

Chamzin Mendonca

PART 1

POETRY

When I Try

To carve,

to find,

to captivate,

gossamer tendrils

of feelings

in emotions spate,

painful twists

and turns of fate,

tender love,

and harsher hate;

all gathered together

at my hearts gate;

ready