DAWN TO DUSK RAIN DANCING

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ABOUT THE BOOK

The third book of the poems after “Dewdrop and Banyan Tree”,” Smiling in the Sleep” by Ramachandran Rajasekharan is a delectable treat for lovers of Poetry, with creative imagination and eloquence of expression, provides the readers with an awesome experience of inner delight. Each of these forty poems has an underlying innate theme, a strong message that the author conveys, in varying dimensions, the poet’s transient emotions of joy, sadness, excitement, ecstasy, anger, frustration, solemnity, and depression even as he closely observes the kaleidoscope of the day-to-day events in the world around, nature, life and of the reality that unfolds before his searching eyes and concerned mind. As he encounters the vivid sensory experiences of sight, sound, smell and touch, he weaves them with the images he perceived, saw, or imagined into a fine tapestry and gives expression to them in his poetic words to allow the readers to experience for themselves the specific sensations as intended by him. The poet succeeds when the readers are brought in line with and to the same wavelength as the poet’s perceptions, imaginations or even dreams.
The beauty and majesty of his poems are explicit in his lucid lines and provide the readers with the varying experiences of instant joy, love, kindness, compassion, as also of anger and disdain on what are to be conveyed through objective, deep meaning and, at times poignant words from the poet’s mind and intellect. Some of these establish a distinct chord of detached attachment or a
feeling of oneness with the poet himself and the underlying themes of his poems.
These moving poems widen the scope of human imagination, giving expressions to the majesty
of nature, realities of life and the wild deluge into which the world drowns, reverberating long after the melodious tones slip into silence. They make us all realise that the beauty of life is the memory of ideas, as all lovely things disappear, depicting both dream and vision and bringing home the truth that life is not absolute and human hearts are like wildflowers. A poet is at his best when his passion burns brighter when amidst tornadoes, there is a constellation in his eyes when the realism dawns that one lives in a world full of beautiful things, yet amidst the worst of tragedies – i.e. the magic of life. This little volume of live, vibrant poems, with metaphor and literary personification, blends harmoniously the thoughts and words of the poet. “Dawn to Dusk Rain Dancing” will surely kindle the sparks of mixed instant emotional responses that could delve deep into the receptacles of minds of the discerning readers and leave a lasting indelible imprint therein.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Ramachandran Rajasekharan discovered his muse in his early sixties. His parents, poets in their own right, had instilled in him the love of reading and poetry from childhood. He is happily married to Kalyani S Menon and blessed with twin sons, Govind and Gopal, and grandchildren, Madhav and Nithya.