Gushing Fountain: A Collection of Poems

By Javed Latoo

"This book is a fine offer expanding the horizon of poetic readership...His yearnings are so genuine; readers can connect instantly. Humanity and love seem to be the genesis of his fecundity"

—Ambika Ananth, Muse India, India

"Poets like Dr Latoo may be able to contribute to the formation of a healthier global village...There is a poet-philosopher in the author of the Gushing Fountain",

—Dr James Paul Pandarakalam, British Journal of Medical Practitioners, UK

"Javed is so good at writing in original ways about calamities that humanity is facing. ... This book makes the reader feel good in more ways than one"

—Dr Nasseer Masoodi, Greater Kashmir, India

"A fascinating read... The poems are full of insight, generosity and unaffected passion. The writing is exhilarating. I highly recommend this book for every poem lover"

—Sumaiya Aadil Shah, Rising Kashmir, India

GUSHING FOUNTAIN: is a heartwarming and uplifting poetry collection. Poetry helps us to re-experience and re-imagine the world. Its beauty and power can heal us as well as create a sense of ecstasy. This collection of poems, written by a doctor of mind ( A Psychiatrist ), will inspire you, will give wings to your imagination and will enlighten your heart.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Partridge Publishing India
• Release date: Jan 25, 2019
• ISBN: 9781543704709

Javed Latoo

Dr Javed Latoo is a UK-based doctor who was born in Srinagar, Kashmir. After graduating from medical school in Srinagar, Dr Latoo moved to the United Kingdom, to train as a Psychiatrist, where he now lives and practices. He is a managing editor of the British Journal of Medical Practitioners.  Dr Latoo writes poetry. His poems have been published in literary journals and magazines ( print and online) and in anthologies. Dr Latoo likes to use poetry to explore the philosophy of life, Kashmir, neuroscience, and mental health. He likes to write in the language of ordinary people, about their ordinary thoughts and about their ordinary insights. He is a managing editor of a UK literary journal “The Beautiful Space- A Journal of Mind, Art and Poetry.”

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Contents

SECTION I

O my Shadow

Behold a Man judging others

O thundering Lord

Weed of senses

A Bigot

Higher Being

Bird on my window sill

O my soul

Whispers of heart

Of the projection

Social Media

Of the beauty

SECTION II

By the sea

Angel of Sleep

Childhood

Autumn morning

Barber and popinjays

Ghost of Internet

O Fulfilment

A tree along the rivulet

Travelling

Raging sea

SECTION III

Nature

I remember those walks by the sea

When I am an old man

Coffee

Noisy airport and my mind

Illusion chasing

Ass festival

Timing of death

Man becomes a dirty stream

Of depression

London

SECTION IV

Divine Justice

O defeat

Superstitions

O form worshiper

Courage

A girl with Anorexia

Of psychosis

Puja

A Raven who wants to be a Dove

SECTION V

By the Dal Lake

Ahmad

Of the Kashmir

Crimson Meadows

Great Floods

Ayesha- a half-widow

Forgotten orphans

SECTION VI

My Jigar

Mother

A friend

My dog

Marriage

Father and son twosome

The moment I saw you

The waft of her scent

Of the Kiss

Of the promises

Come again

I painfully miss you

Come along my love

SECTION VII

Rolling glass marbles

Books

Envy

Youth

Of death

Shadows of old lies

Of Sorrows

If you could

The king

O dreams

Life

Author Biography

To

Armaan

Section I

O my Shadow

O my shadow……long have you followed

My steps, my deeds; creeping along hollowed;

Long have you stepped too near my heels,

Witnessing my joys, sorrows and ordeals.

Long have you walked silently behind me in every meadow,

Jumped into every abyss and every ghetto;

Beheld me under the covers, naked,

When I feign to be more than a sacred.

Long have you sat next to me, in my dark,

When a fatigued soul is bereft of its spark.

Long have you joined my every climb to the mountain peak,

Where I devour my baseness with a beak.

Long did I mistake you as part of my thoughts

Before understanding your snares, your frauds.

My snared spirit still aspires to glide away,

To ascend to higher planes for a blissful play.

My soul still endeavours, to shake off your emptiness,

To overcome your long face of pettiness.

Behold a Man judging others

Behold a man, often tirelessly judging others,

Drawing joy from, his fault-finding, his discovers.

He clamours about other’s crimes and barbarism

He affirms his inflated intellectualism and activism.

But when his own sect indulges in inhuman acts

He turns a blind eye to their brutality, to all facts.

Alas all his sympathy, his humanity, evaporates

Into thin air; unmasking his faults, his devious traits.

His selective empathy, sprinkled with bigotry,

Exposes his blind loyalty to his own