Review : Celestial Descent By Kiran Sandhu
CELESTIAL DESCENT
BY KIRAN SANDHU
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MY RATING 4.7/5
"A dedication to the eternal spirit that exists as the universal oneness and man’s quest to realize the divine truth."
Celestial Descent is a collection of illustrated poems that each of us has, at some point in our lives pondered upon in search of a deeper meaning to life and all that there is. Our quest, quite contrary to what we think is beyond the material self and stepping in to take a descent, you might find yourself in a deep conversation while sipping on Tea with the Buddha or having an engaging discourse with Rumi, the Sufi Mystic. As you descend further, the manifestations of Nature have some lullaby’s to sing to you. The melodies are bound to take you closer to the revered touch where you shall experience deep love, finding joy in sorrow, looking at the wonder of your own breath and more. In the final descent you shall find the shrouds being lifted on many of our inner turbulences to then dance the dance of oneness and marvel at the miracles of what we call life and all that is!
All of us, after a certain age – poets included – feel the need to take a backward glance, to rummage around in our own utterly unique collection of remembered people, sights and sounds, talismanic objects, watershed moments, and to savor again the richly blended emotions we attach to them. And there’s where the poet’s challenge lies. How do you make that personal curio cabinet of memories emotionally available to a reader? Which of one’s recollections will resonate for someone else the way they do for oneself? How much backstory is really necessary, and how little will it take to throw off or obliterate a delicate nuance of feeling?
Celestial Descent By Kiran Sandhu is a marvelous collection of powerful poems on love , meaning of life and all that there is beyond materialistic things, beyond you and me.
Poems expressing spiritual aspect of life interspread with beautiful abstract art in vivid colours. Poems do vary in length but, together they cause the reader to reevaluate his or her conception of life in all its forms . Acceptence of self and life from an omnificient power.
DIVINE ENCOUNTERS
‘I was lost in the maze on a heap of quick sand
When in stepped thee and took my hand Walk with me child,
I have something to tell
And so I went with him
and on his words
did I dwell’
Poetries by Kiran Sandhu causes me to feel “ physically as if the top of my head were taken off. "
Positive , Spiritual and refreshing Celestial Descent is a poetry book to treasure.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
KIRAN SANDHU
Having being engaged in intense academic preoccupations, taking her to various parts of the world in the last two decades, Kiran, with a Masters in Development and Planning from University College London and a PhD in Urban and Environmental Planning from Griffith University, Australia, decided to switch gears from academic genres to the creative realm of poetry. It was then that this piece of poetry, her first venture, was born. In months preceding the writings, what began as small encounters with the self, gradually manifested into a forage inside the larger dimensions beyond the self and perhaps the quest that shall take a lifetime or beyond. Kiran is currently based in the Holy city of Amritsar and shuffles between India and Romania, her second home, being married to a Romanian Citizen.
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