Fountains of Hopes
Dedicated to all my friends and a few relatives who have stood by me during my thick and thin
Like a child cuddling in the arms of the mother.
Oblivious of the mischief done the whole day,
To make the mother run around and round.
To make her mad with frenzy and to weep.
I, lost in my thoughts, turn to my Creator.
Oblivious of the umpteen sins committed by me.
I had broken the “Lakshman Rekha”; like Adam.
Shown jealousy and arrogance like Satan.
Yet, when I am in submission in prayers.
I am like a child in the arms of my mother.
O Lord! Forgive my erring soul and mind.
Enlighten the soul to sing paean to Thee.
Let my sacred moments be dear to me.
Let Thy effulgence shine forever on me.
Preface (excerpt)
I am presenting to my readers my eighth collection of poems. I am dedicating this work to few of my bosom friends who have known me in and out, and have stood by me throughout my life during summer and winter. Their love and affection has been overwhelming. Their encouragement unseizing like a torrential rain. I cannot ask for more.
Download
Foreword to Fountains of Hope by D. C. Chambial (excerpt)
I hold that poetry creates an intense, inspired experience in language chosen and arranged to fashion a specific emotional response through its meaning, sound, and cadence. Mr. Peeran has been writing verses in English since long and has written to date seven volumes of his collections. He is widely published and acclaimed poet. Dr. Krishna Srinivas, himself a poet of world repute, finds in Peeran’s poetic philosophy a parallel with that of William Blake’s poetic philosophy. Mr. Gordon Hindley calls him “a worthy Lakshana or sign post of the best in all of us and in the Indian English poetry.” For Patricia Prime, he is “a master hand at the art.” And Bernard M. Jackson finds in his poetry “sincerity with craftsmanship”.
The present book, 8th in the sequence of his poetic output, has poems embracing varied themes: from “Building castles in dreams” to “Tears”, “slippery love” to “glittering love”, “absence rings” to “Eternity”, poems written on the eves of new years – 2003 to 2006; poems lamenting the wicked deeds of “Talibans” and horrendous, blood-curdling spectacles left by the “Tsunami”. In his poems, he resonates between hope and despair (though he calls his poems “Fountains of Hopes”); celebrates and laments; is glad and sad; meditates upon “war and peace” and “truth and beauty”; sometimes nostalgic and then rejoices in Indian “unity in diversity”. These poems cater to various tastes and moods not only of the poet but also of the readers.
Download
Glittering Love
The threshold of love,
Glimmers like a twilight.
Separating the light and darkness.
A horizon where sky meets an ocean.
A shore between land and a sea.
Like a stream passing through a parching land.
Let me bow and place my brow,
On the altar, where love oozes.
My thousand supplications on pulpit melt
And passes into oblivion sans acceptance.
But a single glance and glimpse
Of love, surpasses the dreary moments.