Offerings of Flowers

By Shachi Mishra

Pushpanjali is a book based on the beauty of mother nature. In this book, you will find various creative and imaginary forms of nature’s beauty, which should charm the readers. The author’s imagination of nature consists of both reality and imagination. Shachi has attempted to portray these mixed emotions through her expressions. In her poetry, the pen is talking. In her imagination, the evening has melodious tunes. The night wanders. The champa flowers gets attracted and comes to visit the author at her home. Rain is portrayed with anger due to the damage it causes sometimes. In one of the poems, the sun gets cold when it dips into the lake. You will get to read exciting poems in this book, which shows the author’s love for mother nature. Few of the poems are inspired and depict life’s realities including the recent COVID-19 pandemic. Where she has highlighted the pain of mother Earth. How mankind has caused harm to the environment and exploited the weaker sections of society. The effects of which are felt by the entire universe.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Partridge Publishing Singapore
• Release date: Nov 11, 2020
• ISBN: 9781543761252

Shachi Mishra

This book is a small contribution from Shachi Mishra to the world of Hindi literature and mother nature. The photos in the book, which are taken by the author herself, are the source of the poems shared in this book. Shachi is an artist by profession. For the past 10 years, she’s been in the arts field. She now wants to make her contribution in the field of poetry.

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Copyright © 2020 by Shachi Mishra.

ISBN:      Hardcover      978-1-5437-6126-9

               Softcover         978-1-5437-6124-5

                eBook             978-1-5437-6125-2

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

The Jasmine Threads

Why do you scream?

The Moon’s Invitation

The Morning Bird Calls Out Loud

A thousand garlands made out of fragrant love

An Evening of Rebuilding

Tuberose

Garden

Moments

Fragrance

The Berry Tree

Dry Leaves

Tree

My thoughts

Krishna

The Earth became very Restless

The Champak Flower

Our Sweet Gardener

Dreams

The story of the Pen

The storm of words

The Oratory of the Pen

My Staggering Lyrics

Rains

The Evening of Seven Colours (Rainbow)

Autumn

Identifying the Self

Human

Mother

Life

An Evening of Chorus

The Broken Kayak

The Havoc of Rain

The Cold Sun

The evening came on the sun’s chariot

The Culture of the COVID Valley

Soft, Quiet, Fragrant Winds

Hidden are the layers of secrets

Wandering Around

Don’t go too far

Acknowledgements

I’d like to thank all those colleagues with whose support I have been able to write and publish my first book today.

Having lived life as an artist for the past 10 years, I never thought that I would able to write a book. All this happened so quickly that I still can’t believe that my first book of poems has been published.

It all happens by God’s mercy, whatever Lord Krishna wants, that