“Loving you is nothing less than a fiction of art,
Harshita Gottipatti
A fantasy lived on the clouds.
A home built away from the feel of a touch.
A hug felt afar as a dream.”
This is a book of poetry by a young poetess Harshita. She begins this poetry book with a poem dedicated to her morning companion. She spent and enjoyed the hot and cupful camaraderie with this companion when no one was around her. She gives her best kisses to this companion when she is single. Not a bad idea at the beginning of this book! It’s top-secret!
“What happens between you
and your cup of coffee
remains between you
and your cup of coffee”
She is talking about her cup of coffee and says that coffee is her oasis.
This poetry collection has been divided into three parts, each part containing thirty-odd poems. In the first part SEASON OF LOVE, There are poems about love and passion. In the second part FALLING APART you will find the feud and fight and heartbreak between lovers. And the third there is THE RISING AGAIN, the verses of realizations, she sought solace from tough times. This part was
like an expression as a chance to succor!
In the first part, the author has been able to convey her feelings of love, passion, and heartbreak in a simple yet sensuous and endearing manner to a reader. The warmth of intimacy between lovers is written in a perspicuous manner.
Love your lover till he is worn out with all the excuses, a sense of love will be imbued with a sense of love only,
“I’ll love you until you run out
of the reasons to not love me,
And then, I’ll love you a little more.”
She defines the wild love
“A wild love,
is
a bit scary,
a bit painful,
a bit exciting,
a bit comforting,
All at the same time!”
She deciphers the foreplay,
“Whoever said foreplay is overrated
Didn’t feel their skin go from fire to ice and ice to water
Just by a touch”
I found sensuality and passion both hand in hand in some of the poems. The poem “My Cupcake” is one such poem where she had inferred the passion through cupcakes quite well. In the second part, I liked the poems “pea brain” and the “enemy within”. and here is one where the author defines herself after the feud with titles “That’s me”,
“Did you kiss the poison?
Is it in your veins?
Oh, dear! dear! then,
What are you waiting for?
Go celebrate that you have
survived the poison,
and, when there is every time
when you miss me …
Remember there is a piece of me
running in your veins..”
In the third part, the verse goes sanguine in nature, it sermonizes on a positive note that if you find yourself in a ditch, don’t mistake it for ruin. And there are poems showing that reclaiming life was never an easy task. There is a come back with confidence, some formidable pronouncements,
“Walk that off girl
Twerk it off
Twerk it all”
I liked the poem ‘Brother of code’, about the fishermen,
“Who are singing with the waves
And smiling with the thunder”
In the poems ‘The flower and spider”, where they both talked to each other.”Homes”, “Existence”, and “Perspective” were some poems where I could dwell on a little longer. The style is free verse with a digestible poetic flow maintained even for a naïve poetry reader. She frees her poems with her stamp.
“Worry not my dear poem, This space fits
your wings just right
write the wanted and shed the unwanted
My dear poem, by the author vested in me
I now pronounce you a free poem.”
If you ask me, I have liked this poetry collection with some drawings made by the author. I can not find fault with the poems that are written by someone to comfort oneself and not with an intention to create a book as the author has stated in the preface. I will say to the author that her poems are beautifully expressed in free verse, and the only thing that could have been done better was the editing and presentation. It may easily look more orderly and well-groomed if given a bit of professional touch in editing.
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