Colors of Leaves

By Vijay K Chopra

Unique insights about life gained through tragedy, loss, and new love influence the enriched views and distinctive perspectives that emerge in this collection of poems by Vijay Chopra.

Through these introspections written during the poet's years of sorrows and pleasures, the reader is taken on a thinking man's sensitive journey. The collection is dotted with playfulness and humor while sharing emotions devastated by lost love or drenched in new romance and at times tingled with social bias and absurdities with the inevitability of life itself.

In this first-time collection, the poetry is often tender; sometimes intense and painful. In one poem the reader may be overtaken with a simple smile of satisfaction, and on the very next page forced to confront a new intellectual or emotional self-awareness. Often, a poem in its style and word choice will reach the marrow of our being and awaken a new and unexpected feeling. The poet's use of colorful and solid imagery help to enrich and challenge perceptions and sensitivities.

What makes this collection so pleasing is the special vision and feelings Chopra lends to the universal emotions we all have.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Jun 20, 2014
• ISBN: 9781499016642

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Copyright © 2014 by Vijay K Chopra.

Library of Congress Control Number: 2014908477

ISBN:               Hardcover                       978-1-4990-1659-8

                         Softcover                        978-1-4990-1660-4

                         eBook                             978-1-4990-1664-2

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Rev. date: 06/11/2014

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Contents

Dedication

Acknowledgement

Preface

Colors of Leaves

No Batteries Needed

Bare Feet in a Park

A Bumpy Ride!

A Classy Lady

Afterglow

Challenging Paths

Hello Death

I Love You

Life Cycle

Looking for You

Gift Wrapped

Birds in Cage

Presidential Election 2008

I and We

Love & Desire

Mind over Matter

Shangri La Moments

The day I met You

Time and Beyond

Reflections

Strangers

That Touch

Trite and True

You

Rain Man

No Tomorrows

Not a Fish out of Water

My Sub-prime Woes

Elusive Solace

Excursive Expressions

Eyes of the Beholder

Heavenly

Cleavage

Closed

I Luv Aruba

In Check

Insatiable

Limericks

Vacancy

Limerick Poetry

Coping with Love & Trust

May You Always Sway

My Bouquet from Rockville

My Writings

My Vanity

Dew Drops

Burning Desires

Moments in Ashes

O’ My Cup

Prime Time

Play Time

A Mystery Unveiled!

A Nirvana Journey

Among The Hawaiian Beaches

At a Funeral

Clichés

Hopeful

Hold Me!

Limericks with Oxymoron Absurdities

The Thread

Too Quiet

Kinky Smoothie!

Shadowy World

Rendezvous

Reveling the View

Timely Cure

A Longing for You

A Moment

Dedication

This work is a small homage to my late father, Som Dutt Chopra. His erudite and scholarly life was exemplary for its politeness, simplicity and humility; and being a beacon and a pilot light.

Acknowledgement

With deep gratitude to all

Who have touched me in so many ways

In my life’s progression and turns

I hope my humble work

Touches a few in return

Specially indebted to my dear friend, Jack Bourque, who has always encouraged me to express my thoughts through writing and has helped me in numerous ways to improve my writing ability; and my son, Sunil Chopra, and his wife, Elizabeth Chopra, for their many contributions specifically in cover design and editing.

Preface

Muted or elated

Perceptions or facts

Real or contrived

Forgettable or revived

Life is hinged on feelings

In all our dealings

Masked or unmasked

We are always in a masque

Crafting vastly varied tapestry

Based on interactions and experiences

Woven by common human threads…

Colors of Leaves

Nascent spring fuzz

In all its innocence

Tender green sprouting

Gleefully touting

Growing and blooming

Or facing