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)

Light Your Inner Spark For Days Of Grace

Light Your Inner Spark for Days of Grace is a richly concocted and heartfelt collection of inspiring, motivational and educational poems, beautifully written in a rhythmic style. It celebrates life’s glorious beauty despite its difficulties and misfortunes and invites readers to work hard and never give up in any circumstances so they can achieve their dreams for better days.

Let It Be

Juvenile Fantasy

‘A blank page is incomplete without art and a book is vain without the readers.’

-Areebah Yasir Qazi

Juvenile Fantasy is a motivational poetry book. The poems convey the message of evolution of mankind, hard work, self-love, fairness, and jubilant outlook. The book is based on both melancholic reality and frolic time ahead. Each of the poems aims at the reader’s mind and heart in an emotive, but also inspiring and constructive manner.

In The Sweet Night

There is a way to unmatched solace

The delights of proximity to God

Am I a tiny drop of water

Or a speck of dust in the vast universe?

Waveringly treading the greatest path

The road of glorification of the Lord

Muhammad and Christ charted the course

Affirming the unfathomable seas of Divine love

We are an insignificant being in vast oceans

Whirling in a dance of worldly aim

I, My Shadow, And My Partner

Life is a journey. It has its ups and downs. I wrote some thoughts during this journey that may reflect some facets of me, but not all! For sure, writing is an urge that I cannot live without, it is the air I breathe when I am short of breath or breathing out…