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    Wanton Ink: A Collection of Poems
    Wanton Ink: A Collection of Poems
    Wanton Ink: A Collection of Poems
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    Wanton Ink: A Collection of Poems

    By Vibina Saraswati Narayan

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    Wanton Ink is a short collection of around thirty poems the author has been writing since the last decade or so. It has been compartmentalized into four sections - Dream, Nature, Love and Woman.

    This is the author’s first publication and solely her own work including the landscape photography inside.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse UK
    Release dateSep 18, 2019
    ISBN9781728393506
    Wanton Ink: A Collection of Poems
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    Vibina Saraswati Narayan

    Doctor.Dreamer.Poet.Mother.Life long seeker.

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      Book preview

      Wanton Ink - Vibina Saraswati Narayan

      WANTON

      INK

      A COLLECTION OF POEMS

      VIBINA SARASWATI NARAYAN

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      AuthorHouse™ UK

      1663 Liberty Drive

      Bloomington, IN 47403 USA

      www.authorhouse.co.uk

      Phone: 0800 047 8203 (Domestic TFN)

      +44 1908 723714 (International)

      © 2019 Vibina Saraswati Narayan. All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

      Published by AuthorHouse  09/16/2019

      ISBN: 978-1-7283-9351-3 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-7283-9350-6 (e)

      Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Getty Images are models, and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

      Certain stock imagery © Getty Images.

      Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

      CONTENTS

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      About the Author

      DREAM

      Cat’s Cradle

      The First Memory

      Attenuation

      Hand In Hand

      Ephemeral

      Sleep

      Voice

      Disease

      NATURE

      The Unknown

      The Requiem

      Rebirth

      The Tree

      The Little Brown Leaf

      Time

      December

      Tawny Rose

      Sunsets

      Null

      The Moon

      LOVE

      Us

      Manacles

      The Restitution Of Love

      Home

      The Temple

      Devil’s Tree

      The Pebble

      Out Of Reach

      WOMAN

      She

      Leper’s Lunch

      The Temptress

      Paradigm Of A Woman

      ABOUT THE AUTHOR

      Doctor by profession, poet (and dreamer) by vocation, the author has been writing poetry since the age of fourteen. She has also written a few short essays on her blog Wanton Ink (www.wantonink.com) but these have not been as many in number as her poems. Generally, a moody writer, it is her ambition is to write a novel and publish it. When she is not busy working and playing tickle games with her son, she likes to read, watch movies, travel, and most of all, plant flowers of all possible colours in her garden. By now you have guessed it right, she is pretty much a

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