Re-Surging: 101 Poems on Quests - Resurgence - Love

By Venilla Rajaguru

RE-SURGING
by Venilla Rajaguru

A literary volume of 101 poems
A Poetry Classic! A worthy Perennial!

This literary volume is on the grand theme of resurgence in life and love. Universal in thematic appeal, these eclectic poems tackle various moods, sentiments, and experience: burgeoning quests; resurfacing of socio-technical issues; rebounding social practices; and emotional explorations of love, loss, and revival of the Self. The poetic renditions span the sociological, philosophical, and metaphysical dimensions of our human experience. Every poem in this volume is composed to excellent literary standards of meter, rhythm, and rhyme, promising a delightful read.

Venilla Rajaguru displays remarkable mastery of metaphorical stylistics in verse. She excels in social satire just as in her philosophical mode. Her love poems are evocatively sensuous, yet interweaving higher dimensions of communion. Her poems are brilliantly crafted with a story telling approach, and often imbued with a dramatic effect. Her narrative style is captivating. A definite Perennial of literary charm and value.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Trafford Publishing
• Release date: Sep 14, 2022
• ISBN: 9781698712727

Venilla Rajaguru

Venilla Rajaguru is a poet by nature, a scholar by training, and an entrepreneur by practice. She is the former editorial lead of British Council India Communications; and has also edited two English Studies journals for the Council (1995-97). Later, she served as the pioneering Chairwoman of the ASEAN Women's Wing office based at the ASEAN Secretariat, helping develop and implement Community Outreach programs for women and children (2009-2011). She read English Literature at the University of Oxford as Rhodes Scholar 1992. Almost two decades later, she pursued postgraduate studies in International Development (Cornell, U.S.), and Science and Technology Studies in the history and sociology of Innovation (York University, Canada). Her own doctoral research is on the Pacific issues of artificial islands. While at York University, she concurently served as the first Chair of the Ocean Frontiers Research working group under Science for Peace, Canada (2015-2020). In 2021 she founded a consulting company KeyVisory, LLC in the U.S., for helping individual artists and businesses in branding, research, and intellectual property software solutions. She now spends her time between her creative writing projects, academic research writings, and her consulting practice.

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Contents

Dedication

Acknowledgement

Introduction

I: QUESTS

Walls

Mosaic

Dream, A New Day

Mothering Land

The Light Quest

Verdict

Through The River of Life

Lighthouse

His Eyes

That Clan Chieftain Proud

Hope

Grace

Riddle

Like A Blossom

Like a Wildflower

Choice Check

Maya

A Rational Inquiry

To Love

Rethinking

Avatar

Angels in The Wind

Spiritual

Logic

Astral Quest

Arising, to The Unknown

Seeking

Of Faith, and Qualms

Quintessence

A prayer

II: RESURGENCE

Like Phoenix, I rise

Goodbye Kiss

Old Soul

My Choice

Tears

Paper Hearts

In Different Times

Regeneration

Lone Trail

Awry

Healing

Incomplete

Recharge

Be, Just Be Love

Disconnects

Regenerative Mix

Lost & Found

The Poetics of Truth

Clouds of Times

Perilous

Resurging Past

Circles of Peace

That Custom

Quarantine Love

A Socio-Legal Resurge

Affairs of Change

Her Renewed Dating

Give Yourself Time

The Moon Keeps Me Company

Now

III: SANCTUARY OF LOVE

A Sanctuary of Love

Choice

Father

Linda, in Me

Ethereal

Calling You

The Promise of the Sun

The Venusian

To Champion, Onward

My New Year

Reading Deep

Love’s Nest

Homeward

Magic

Wishlist

The Angel Home

Guardian Angel

Transforming Time

The Wife’s Call

On your Birthday

The Angel Armour

Make a Wish

Like a Force of Nature

Coupled

Saviour

In The garden of Earthen

Whispers

Reassuring

My Sun

Ode to My Daughter, Precious

ADDENDUM

A Renascent Poet

A World of Mirrors

The City of the Merlion

Across The Detroit River

Love Karma

Contrived

The Business of Life

Rainbow Reveries

In Life’s Plain Routine

Feel Your Quest

Re-Embodiment

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

About The Author

Continuing the Conversation on RE-SURGING

Dedication

To my Husband, who endures my long working hours, and willingly supports me in daily chores. Thanks to him I can now focus on many writing projects, including the timely completion of this volume of poetry in 2022.

Acknowledgement

To you my readers, my heart felt gratitude for your appreciation and love of my poetry. In the 10 years gap between my first poetry book and this second one, many who know me have encouraged me to continue in my poetry writing track, despite me being immersed in doctoral research on oceanic issues and outer space. I also head a business on software solutions for managing intellectual property risks and audit. The demands on my time are immense. But I realize that poetry writing gives me a sense of balance, a welcome break, and increases my creative insights. Now that I’ve done my second book of poems, I can honestly say that the encouragement and moral support I received from my inner circle of readers gave me the much-needed impetus to stay consistent in my daily writing of poems, to be able to work towards this compilation of 101 poems.

Furthermore, this book that you now behold is the outcome of many years of my education in world literatures in schools and colleges. My fondness for literary standards of structured verse with regularity of meter is rooted in my appreciation of English Poetry and several other poetic traditions. I am deeply grateful to all the great teachers who have taught me poetry in schools and colleges in India and at Oxford, U.K. As a teenager, I used to write poems for the love of reciting them to my audience of friends and family. But my serious effort at compiling my more mature poems into a book for publication began with my desire to present my poetry to expanding networks of friends, colleagues, and readers now spread out worldwide across diverse cultures and professional paths.

I owe my heartiest thanks to the publishing coordinators for their critical inputs on book design, and format. My special thanks to my husband for being part of the cover design and imagery discussions. He takes care of daily household chores and errands, sometimes even making lunch for me, so I can focus on my writings. Again, to you my encouraging readers, my networks of peers, social media friends and poetry lovers, to you I owe my consistent practice of writing a poem everyday, and on some days more than one poem, to be able to produce a poetry book for you. In doing so, I have discovered that this consistent habit of writing poetry is therapeutic, joyful, and inspirational. May my poetry now give you joy, solace, and the steady inspiration for uplifting you in your realms of good quests and success.

Thank You!

Introduction

What is a poem?. This was a question for discussion in a recent writers meet. It elicited discussions on what qualifies as a poem, about the conceptual basis and the many forms of poetic narration. My answer was, A poem is the heartiest expression of an event or emotion, in its simplest form. In its grandest or most powerful version, a poem can be multivalent: a metaphorical rendition of a philosophical inquiry, a rhythmic deliberation on socio-technical practices, and even effective as a structured rhetoric on sociological issues. A poem can be delivered as a recital or song, if it is written with alliterative rhythm and/or with regular rhyme scheme. This subject of poetic forms and rendition of content is very