Inner and Outer: A Collection of Inspirations in Poems

By Dheena Subramanian

This collection of poems is the outcome of an inner journey trying to explore mysteries of mind and secrets of cosmos. It may guide someone trying to embark on such a voyage.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Mar 25, 2010
• ISBN: 9781467055642

Dheena Subramanian

About the Author: Dheenadayalan Subramanian was born in India. He studied at Voorhees High School and Voorhees College,Vellore; Studied M.A.English Literature at Presidency College, Chennai and Bachelor of Law at Madras Law College, Chennai, Tamilnadu, India. He had written poems in English and publsihed most of them in POET, an international magazine. He had written and published a novel, “Kaadhal Poyin…" in Tamil Language. He has also authored,”JESUS The Yogi", a commentary on the Gospel of Thomas. Contact details: Dheena Subramanian E-mail: [e-mail]

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First published by AuthorHouse 3/19/2010

ISBN: 978-1-4670-5-5642 (ebook)

Contents

FOREWORD

Author’s Preface

ANONYMOUS

BEFORE ME!

WELL SAID

AMERICA

NATIVES

BLESSING IN DISGUISE

BLIND-FOLD

BORDERLINE SELF

CARBON AND BLANK SHEETS

CERTAINTY OF UNCERTAINTY.

CUCKOOS CRY

CYCLIC

DIRECT!

DISAPPOINTMENT

DISTANCE

EVE’S CRY

FEELING DEATH

FUSION FISSION OF LIFE AND DEATH

GRAND PARENTS

HAPPENING

HUMILITY

IF NOT I

IN VAIN

KISS

LAST DAY OF JUDGMENT

MIND

MUSEUM

ONCE!..FOREVER!

OURS AND YOURS

OUT WITHIN

POEMS ON

PRAYER

REHEARSAL

REJUVENATION

RESURRECTIONS

ST. JUDAS

POETIC

SHOW OF SHOW

SILENCE SPEAKS

SINGING TRUTH

SONG TO SONG

STRANGE…

TEN MONTHS

THE DEEP

THE WAVES

THEME-EARTH

TOWARDS ETERNITY

TOWARDS SILENCE

TRANSCENDENCE

OFFSPRINGS

TRANSIT

UNCONSCIOUS

A RIVER CITY

VIVALDI’S MUSIC

POETRY

WHEN?

WILD GAME

CLOSED BOOK

LOST WITHIN

ANONYMOUS

FLOATS…

REBIRTH

A MOTHER’S CRY!

AN OPEN LETTER

LIGHT

DHEENA SUBRAMANIAN

This book is dedicated to my daughter,

Naveena

Who carefully typed these poems from my old diaries.

FOREWORD

Dheena Subramanian has ambitiously endeavored to fuse the inner and the outer realities of mind in his poetry book, Inner and Outer. The poet states, This collection of poems is the outcome of an inner journey trying to explore mysteries of mind and secrets of cosmos. Philosophical in its approach the book finds man’s mind as mysterious and grand as the universe outside it. The poet finds beauties in those mysteries and that may be the salvation for man for all the pain life causes him. The book also has poems on other aspects of life: living, poetry, earth, and other. Most of the poems are easy to understand. They are generally short, which are interspersed with the longer ones. There seems to be no particular order which organizes the poems.

The poet right in the beginning says that words are divine, very well