love.feel.pain.heal.repeat – poems of love, hope, passion, rupture and healing

Description

From rupture to rapture, from agony to ecstasy, from bleeding to healing, love is the alchemy of revolution and transformation. It is a song, a dance, a celebration and a creation. It is not a unique subject, but a subject so universal, that it defines our very existence. In her debut collection of poems, Shilpa does not attempt to define love as she believes that it is mysterious and mercurial. But having experienced the falling and rising herself, this book is a catharsis of her emotions, processed with a lot of love. The poems in this book reinforce that even though love is an uphill task, it is intrinsic and beautiful, and that every emotion it elicits – pain, anguish, anticipation, joy and passion – is so worth living, at least once in a lifetime. Shilpa makes you dive into them, feel them and live them through her voyage. Her verses signify that pain is inevitable, but combating it, rising beyond it and upholding faith in love is certainly a choice. Through her sometimes heart-warming and sometimes heart-wrenching verses, she urges you not just to heal yourself, but also to rediscover your soul and its calling. The book conveys that love may or may not stay forever, but it leaves a blessing that stays with you, till eternity. Embrace it.

About the Author

Shilpa is a star-gazer and a romantic who has never been able to fathom how the left side of the brain works. In fact, the functioning of the brain itself has been an intimidating subject for her to comprehend. She believes she was born with a feeling apparatus only – the heart; and not a thinking one – the mind! Intellectualizing feelings and emotions is knottier than rocket science to her! An unconventional, edge-of-the-seat, poignant yet action-packed drama in quest for love, her story has been full of intense passion, heartbreak, agony, social scorn, ebbs and flows and all the joys of being a rebel at heart, in a very conformist society. But the silver lining for her has been the rise of her consciousness, the awakening of her spirit, the beckoning of her calling: writing. She now muses and writes poetry to feed her soul. She hopes this book is the beginning of a trajectory that the Cosmos wants her to tread on to reach where she is meant to be, some day. The destination will unravel, but the journey has been beautiful so far.