Build on a Dream: Another Collection of Thoughts in Verse

By Arunav Barua

This collection of verse is an escape from reality when we need one, though it is as real as anything we would call real. Written with my deepest core, including a little essence of myself in every verse . . . trying and answering questions often asked by my wandering mind in words. Do I find a little of my personal Utopia in the collection? I find a lot more . . .
It is hoped that the reader would find answers to some question I am sure you have asked yourselves in the long run, somewhere in this space-time continuum given to us. It is hoped that in the end, you enjoy the journey.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Trafford Publishing
• Release date: Nov 22, 2014
• ISBN: 9781490748511

Arunav Barua

Brought up in a hill station in the North Eastern part of India, I have been a willing recipient of the wonders of nature that Shillong threw up at me. From streams to hillocks, pine trees and clouds—the rains would often mean that you stayed back at home reading or writing (if you had the desire). I chose the latter in between engrossing reads from the former. My childhood gave me a constant, which helped pass phases of losing myself in the milieu and in life. I have used verse to give comfort and find stability in an otherwise difficult existence.

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CONTENTS

Foreword

A Dialogue And An Escape

A Full Circle

A Man’s Nature

A Midsummer Night"S Dream

A Musical Interlude

A Thought And Its Action

A Tryst With Eternity

A Virtue Not Easily Assigned

Afternoon

Answers

Being

Breathe

Build On A Dream

Close Your Eyes And See

Common Ground

Conversation Without End

Divine Messages

Done Living

Duty And Dust

Facts Remain

Fathom The Love

Feel

Giving Away Hope

I See You As I See Me

I Take Up My Pen

Imagination

Is Happiness A Crime?

Is It Me?

It Rained Today

Knights And Days (Satire)

Lake District

Let Love Be…

Lost In Translation

Memory Of Loss

Now

Only So Far

Our Destiny

Ra

Remnants Of Summer

Secrets Of The Earth

Seed

Shade To The Sun

Shadow Games

Should I Give In?

Solace In Desperation

Space—Time

Star Song

Still Love You

Tall Tales Of Distant Lands

That Gust Of Wind

That Man On The Tree

The Abysmal Depths

The Arch Of A Rainbow

The Burden Of Distraction

The Centrist

The Chair

The Colour Of Laughter

Hip Hopping With Nature

The Diary

The Earth Smiles!

The Gift

The Philosopher’s Stone

The Reason Behind

The River (Brahmaputra)

The Self And Time

The Twin Paths

This And That, Here And There

Tomorrow

’Twas Love

Twice

Unconditional Love

Understanding You

Walking Alone

Who Toil Without Rest

Wise Is The Man Who Knows

To,

LONDA (Chiranjib Barua);

Brother…you spoke with your silence and left a void

in all our lives…

AND…

As usual, to you—Duffer!

FOREWORD:

Arunav Barua rhymes with reason, and sometimes with passion too. His verse has the innocence of country songs and sometimes even the ease of the Blues. He addresses a whole range of concerns, from routine human realities to larger problems of mankind. It is when he takes leave from the sentiments that he avows and advocates, however laudable they are, that he strikes the authentically immediate and his idiom also takes on a personal intensity, as in the following:

Soaring like a bird in flight

Almost touching that untamed