Hello fellow bloggers and friends, I’m glad to announce that a video trailer of my book, ‘Straying into Green and other Poems’ has just been released and uploaded on YouTube. Please have a look at it and enjoy a peep into the book. If you find it interesting enough, you may place an order on amazon or any of the online shopping sites. And yes, please don’t forget to share your feedbacks. Here’s the link:
P.S. : The book is available in both — print as well as e-book formats.
In this competitive world, hectic life,
if you sometimes find your gray cells
on the verge of bursting, revolting,
or giving up, be sure,
it’s time to take a short break.
Yes, do spare a few quiet
moments for yourself.
Perhaps you need some
good company…or distraction, for a short while.
A cup of your favourite coffee…or tea?
Well okay, do call for it but…
Hey, how about a poetry book?
Why not try a small dose of poetry,
fishing out your favourite poet
from the drawer, or online,
and finding yourself transported
to the wonderful, sublime world
created by him/her.
After roaming therein for
even a short while, through
a couple of short poems,
when you return to your own self,
I’m sure you’d have got
your nerves back in good shape,
all unruffled and soothed
and ready to plunge
into action once again.
That I think, is the magic of poetry!
That I think, is the joy of poetry!
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Ashok Misra
Hello my valued fellow bloggers and friends,
I am glad to share with you the happy news about my forthcoming collection of poems, ‘Straying Into The Green and Other Poems’, being published by Notion Press. It has already been listed for pre-order on # amazon. If you’d like to enjoy my poems collectively, and to undertake a journey into the awesome green, like I did, you have an opportunity to make a pre-order on the amazon site. For that, you will have to look for:
‘Straying into the Green and Other Poems’ by Ashok Misra through the following link:
https://www.amazon.in/s/ref=nb_sb_noss…
https://notionpress.com/…/straying-into-the-green-and-other…
A word about its genesis, It so happened that after my retirement in June, 2013, I had started the blog: ‘Creative Expressions’ # https://ashokscreativecorner.wordpress.com/ #
I had been consistently posting different types of contents, mainly poems, in that. I am thankful to all fellow bloggers and others who have been reading, liking and making nice comments on the posts frequently. They gave me all the encouragement, impetus required to keep writing and sharing my poems and other contents with like minded (…and hearted) souls all over the world. The present collection carries my favorite poems selected from the blog.
So, happy reading friends!
Ashok Misra
Life is a book!
Words and sentences,
paragraphs, pages and chapters:
bit by bit, we write
the book of our life.
Life is a play/story!
Seconds, and minutes,
hours, days and years:
bit by bit we live,
enact the play of our life.
Some of the chapters we script
make interesting, happy reading.
We love to write those,
and even revisiting them,
sharing with others.
Some of the days, months and years
make happy living,
seeming pretty delightful, blissful.
We love to live those,
even revisiting, down the memory lane.
Sometimes, there are storms, turbulent waters.
Life stands threatened and periled.
The spirited ones take those in their stride.
Adequately equipped, they manage
to survive, wade through, and sail on.
The story of their adventurous, heroic struggle
makes for yet another wonderful chapter
to their amazing book of life,
for others to read and draw
their conclusions, lessons and inspirations.
Blessed be such scribes!
Blessed be such souls!
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Ashok Misra
Creative Expressions 