Karma’s Capricious Land and Other Poems of Love and Dissolution

By Indira Umareddy

This collection of poems is a raw portrayal of the multiple shades of love, complete with its beginnings, endings, and memories from pre-historic times through to the post- pandemic era. It is rendered in a contemporary voice yet in the style of traditional Indian folklore and is a universal reflection of the need and cause for human relationships, heartache, and subsequent personal growth.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Partridge Publishing Singapore
• Release date: Apr 17, 2023
• ISBN: 9781543770551

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Contents

Falling in Love

Love

Falling

Who Has Time for the Stars?

Come Walk with Me

My Very Own

How to Kiss Your Dream

Poetry

Shades of Love

Call Me by My Name Again

Double Cross

Alive

Sit by Me

Staying Sane

Chinnu, Before You Taught Me to Love

Prefect’s Towel

2020

Go

Pandemic Tales

Staircase to Stars

An Affair

Kintsugi

Beetles

Fani, the Cyclone

Straight from my lips

Second Kiss

Steady

Fairy Tales

Seagulls

Sorted Desire

To Die Again

Beauty’s Black Spot

Will You?

Origins

Your Story

Telugu Song

Wounds

Another Dream

Your Image

Belt Up

Obsession

Tiny Love

That Very Sun

Write Me a Poem

Your Gifts

Lonely

Two Cups of Tea

The Parting

Goodbye

Sorry, no sorry

Pale Blue Dot

Until Then

Missing Women

Or Not

Indira, You’re Going to Be Here Tomorrow

A Pact with Loneliness

Time -Wrapped Desire

You Will Be

The Calm After

Ganga’ s Lover

Doubt and Hope

Again

Why the Tortoise Got Its Shell

Of Ancient Tales

Yes, Ships Do Dance!

Memory

Mount Fuji

Waiting for Water

Karma’s Capricious Land

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Falling in Love

Love

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Love, beyond-lifetimes love,

tiny-little-sweet-childhood love,

kitchen-heat-sweat ruined-meal love

Menial love, transactional love,

a lonely night’s-lustful love,

ritual-filial-brotherly love,

tea-time-tenderness-love,

tracking flight-path-nervous love,

saree-end-clumping-touchy love,

hand-shake-is-enough-too love

White-sheet-wrapped-up-nude-love

Here, hold my hand and stand up to love

What if life slipped its tangled mess on our feet and got ahead?

Maybe then, skip the race, don’t catch up, clean up, just be?

Cushioned by the delicious mess,

here hold my hand and dwell here a while

Broken-bitter love, pupil-dilating,

heart-rate-pumping love

Dazzling firework-love, oil-mud-lamp-love

Burning, shining, crazy, flaming love

Whichever way you find love,

here, hold my hand and stand up to love

Pointless love

Under purple skies behind the horizon

Dawn met the dusk