Can poetry be memories from a previous life?
Friends is the fifth book in the series Memories from another Lifetime.
Several of the poems in Friends were written at a turbulent time in Vanita’s life, and they present a highly idealised and youthful expression of friendship. Yet they also witness the complex and often conflicting emotions in a friendship – love, devotion, hurt, insecurity, and even jealousy.
Memories from another Lifetime is a collection of very personal and hauntingly beautiful poems about love, desire, friendship, heartbreak, betrayal, hurt, and denial. They go to the core of raw and visceral emotions, perhaps from another lifetime. A powerful and moving experience.
‘I am the window
Through which sunshine
Can enter
The dark room of your Life –
If only you will hold
My outstretched hand of friendship
And lift the curtains
Of your mind.’
From ‘The Saviour’, Vanita Shukla Hork, 1983
Published on 1st September 2024
My Review:
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Five Stars
Beautiful words. The poems dealing with a wide variety of topics right from lost friendship to betrayal, heartbreak, takes the readers on a roller coaster of emotions.
Reading the poetries made me pause and recollect my own past. It brought back vivid memories of childhood friends I had long forgotten in adulthood
It surprises me that the poet has written this when she was in her teenager and the poems mark high maturity for a little girl who had to face loss and betrayal and came out on the other side successfully.
Excellent reflective read.
Review also found at:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8289975856
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