Reflections

Reflections may just seem like mirror images on water, but they gloriously differ with the eye of the beholder. They are what the viewer perceives them to be, from their view. This collection of poems, Reflections, encompasses musings on nature, human interactions and the emotions that connect us all. These are ‘reflections’, as seen by my eyes.

Profundity

This book consists of poems of pure feelings. Some of them talk about the mindset we live in, and some of them talk about the struggles young adults face in our modernized world, whether it's friendships, love, or even societal issues (fitting in). I question a variety of things including our surroundings, some certain views of other people, and some social norms in this book. Nothing personal here, it’s just how I view life. I hope it touches your heart!

Perplexus

Harmonizing a colorful assortment of yarns (African, Arab, European, Islamic, metropolitan), Dr. Tinay manages to valiantly approach a hardly pliant loom and produce the wide range of richly textured fabrics comprising his “Perplexus” collection.”

                                                                                                Fathelbari A. Al Hasan

      Poet and Literary Critic

“In this collection, as in his previous volumes, the poet has demonstrated amazing skills in transforming the personal and subjective into universally human experiences rendered in superb verse.”

Adil Babikir

Author and Literary Translator of

Modern Sudanese Poetry

Fellow, Institute of Global Translation

Ahmed’s poems are distinguished by a delicate poetic sense and crafted with high professionalism and a skilled linguistic style. The poet is also able to employ his seasoned poetic and linguistic tools to tackle the varied topics in this collection with extremely high ingenuity. The deep philosophical perspectives expressed in these poems would certainly appeal to a wide range of lovers of poetry rendered in the English tongue.

Once Upon A Dream

When a dream touches reality, it becomes possible to happen. No matter what I lost in my life, I always looked at the bright side. I always suppressed my pain to be able to move on.
I believe that if your new year is just like the year before then you need to get yourself a job.
When I was fed up waiting for a job to save my life, I worked on my dream. Sometimes losing important things give us the chance for better things. Only when we are positive enough can we see the light under the sea and an ending to the ocean.
Wake up today to make your dreams true. Work on them because the story of 11:11 wish and the falling star wish are unfortunately not real!

On Par With Emotions

A few verses written to relieve personal struggle and stress, an expression of emotions that forces connection. One verse is brutal, the other tender. Has poetic mood swings, poetic madness, poetic blasphemy, poetic godly mysticism. These are the words of the poet about an epic journey with pen as his sword and paper as his shield. A few painful expressions of poetry that will bring joy and release stress, an honest form of expression.

On Loss

To have life is to know death,

To have love is to know grief,

To have time is to know it is brief.

–Razan H. Abdul Majeed

This beautiful collection of poetry expresses raw sentiments that speak to our deepest part. Written in an authentic voice, On Loss: A Daughter’s Journey Through Grief is a tribute of hope to anyone who has loved deeply, lost greatly and is struggling to make sense of it all.

Nothing And Everything All At Once

After experiencing the horrific events of a sexual assault, the speaker of this book embarks on the journey of recovery. The story on these pages is a reflection of what she went through and the choices she made in order to help her move on. Told with the perspective of a racing mind, the story is told in the present, with flashbacks to the recent past. Take this journey with her and get an inside look at the speaker’s story, opening the mind to the hidden and secretive world of these nightmarish events.

Momentums

Look what happens

When we don’t listen

To the divine music.

We lace our songs

With hurtful melodies.

Miscellany

The book is the poet’s depiction of the growing rift between an established past along the great human institutions of religion, history and culture which mankind used to rely on for guidance in life on the one hand, and a present set out to redefine itself along with the new evolutionary strides in science and technology on the other. Following this great divergence, mankind’s moral values, especially that of truth, have been drastically devalued as a result of this shift towards a more materialistic way of life. Therefore, the resulting values in the aftermath were the product of the scientific development and the break with traditions, religion, history and culture. They were limited and evanescent and wanting in their capacity to meet the needs of humanity as a whole. They were largely temporal and choppy reflecting the new zeitgeist of the modern culture.

Mine, Yours, Ours

I know it’s not mine

To ask for a minute of your time,

But if you can find it to be ‘fine’

Then this may be deemed a worthy rhyme.

I won’t take hours

From you,

I promise.

Yet, I gave hours

For you,

I wrote this.

Because it’s ours,

The life, the lows

The ‘blows’ and the bliss…

Loneliness Love Musings And Me

When loneliness tries to succumb a girl,
hope sprouts as mushrooms on a rainy day,
when there is this sense of loss in someone’s mind
Love of God will lend a gentle hand
Rest assured is a walk
through various facets of love and thoughts
Of God, of mother nature….

Like A Movie Subtitle

READ LIKE PROSE.

THIS BOOK OF PHOTO-PROSE-POEMS

A UNIQUE COMPOSITION IN THE ART OF WRITING

A UNIQUE COMBINATION OF PICTURE, PROSE and POEMS
A UNIQUE COMPETENCY OF ABSTRACT, CONCRETE and LUCIDITY

A UNIQUE CELEBRATION FOR EYES, INTELLECT AND MIND.

.........This is some sort of a photo-feature, Subhash presents

before us in a strikingly different poetic genre... I would even

term it filmy poems...........

..............The visuals gaining more prominence than the words ?

Not likely............

.....He comes forth with this excellent breed where the pictures

combine with the words in all elegance; very often the pictures

holding an unmistakable edge over words........

….... Photos are actually captured moments from the unending

flux of life; and as such they have a link with slowness...... 

Only very few modern writers like Milan Kundera extol slowness

and its nuances…

........These random ramblings along with the colourful shots, at times abstract, at

times concrete do make an exquisite

ensemble; ...there is an ongoing interplay between them ever

stretching your creative mind further, which renders the

product unique and lovable…...

Critic: Asha Menon (Excerpts from Preface)