-->2 cups of mint tea http://amzn.to/2tC2b3c a book by Sonyl Varma #Kindle
Hopeless romantic love, nostalgic childhood memories and a world on the brink
The first thing one searches for in a poetry collection are paintings. Words make the best paintings. In that regard, there are a lot of prose paintings in this collection of rather post-modern poems. Initially written for facebook, this is as modern as a selfie and then there is the love of nature, greenery, love, Thailand, London, Sydney, New Zealand and India in a city that was called Bombay, now Mumbai. It has everything from big leaves to hopeless romantic poetry to death, modernism, travel, adventure, a bit of Jack Sparrow and a slice of Archie’s Riverdale and a chunk of politically correct education and terrorism. There is no tea and yet it is a refreshing read. It may be a suggestion. Read this and have tea, add mint in it and smile. This are feel good poems despite everything and thus, this is how one should enjoy reading them.
It talks of climate change (and the human chain) as we also live in a world that is fast, unromantic, hassled, terrorized and constantly drifting apart: both ecologically and socially. Thus there is Silfra; It is about that drift. Silfra being the spot where North America and Europe meet and it's both volatile and beautiful and, its drifting apart 2 cms at a time. Like our lives.
Nights and shadows deals with love and false pride in this post-modern, lonely, selfie twitter-tarnished generation. More love follows in Sydney: nostalgia in splash and storms. Arming monkeys is about the current education system, Rob's green finger is based on Frost's poem, as Shelley’s London is based on Shelley. More love flows in twilight. Rights discusses match fixing, ball tampering and cheating in sports. Hat Yai deals with visa runs in this global village that we helter-skelter in. Childhood memories line blue skies whereas, Jazz in Ponsonby is based on loving a girl suffering from depression. Finally love and school days are back in the snail and firefly poems.
The hopeless romantic start sets up this collection of what is surely the literary equivalent of two cups of mint tea.
-->2 cups of mint tea http://amzn.to/2tC2b3c a book by Sonyl Varma #Kindle
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