Life Is Bless and Love Is Bliss: An Ode to Life and Love

By TheCritics

'Life is bless and love is bliss', is an ode; an ode to life and love. It is a compilation of poetry. Each poetry shares a story; a story that will make you laugh, a story that will make you feel and a story that will make you think. If the entire collection of poems are read together it explains a tale; the tale of human life. The author has divided life as a human into various forms; 'The crawler, the learner, the explorer, the first seeker, the lover, the solitude dreamer, the runner, the second seeker, the third seeker, the second crawler and the sleeper.'

The curtains are finally drawn with the sleeper.From crawler to second crawler the humans are offered choices; the choices are love. Every form in life seeks the very love and if it is found there is serenity. The poetry under each form expalins love that one spreads and seeks in each form. The final form, 'the sleeper' where the soulless lays down explains that life and its purpose is very simple. The purpose is love and survive.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Partridge Publishing India
• Release date: Oct 16, 2015
• ISBN: 9781482858310

TheCritics

'TheCritics' is a doctor by profession, and writer by passion. He started working with society at the age of twenty; the experience and knowledge he gained from meeting people of various forms and aspects made his understanding towards life better, and his wiritngs started refelecting same. The author is a seeking nomad; he seeks purpose and and travels far and beyond to seek the same. He is passionate about his country, about love, about life and in finding meaning towards the birth as a 'human'.

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Copyright © 2015 by TheCritics.

ISBN:      Hardcover      978-1-4828-5833-4

                Softcover        978-1-4828-5832-7

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CONTENTS

Introduction

THE CRAWLER

1.   Motherhood

2.   The walking titan: Fatherhood

3.   Grey

THE LEARNER

4.   Cygnet

5.   Sibling

6.   A child’s fantasy

THE EXPLORER

7.   The lost childhood

8.   Puberty

9.   Adolescence

THE FIRST SEEKER

10.   Hope

11.   Migration

12.   Nomad

13.   He and Me

14.   Change

THE LOVER

15.   Two unknown souls

16.   In Love

17.   Kiss

18.   Intertwined in love

19.   Embalmed in eternity

20.   Embraced in love

THE LONELY DREAMER

21.   Poppy

22.   Stripped naked: A broken soul

23.   The lost soul

24.   Waking from a dream

25.   Solitude

26.   Void

27.   The place

28.   Lonely

THE RUNNER

29.   Crimson

30.   The man behind the ‘veil’

31.   Rhythm

32.   Porcelain

33.   You and Me

34.   Muffled

35.   Friend

36.   Grief

THE SECOND SEEKER

37.   Deadly love: Power

38.   Corner

39.   Money

40.   The one

THE THIRD SEEKER

41.   Innocence regained

42.   A love above all

43.   Nomad is back

44.   Freedom

45.   Starve

46.   Hope

THE SECOND CRAWLER

47.   Sacrosanct frame

48.   The stalled street

49.   Shadows of the past

50.   When I walk around

51.   Memoir

52.   You

53.   Life

THE SLEEPER

54.   Masked

55.   A journey

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

‘TheCritics’, started writing at the age of thirteen. He believes in ‘love’, and believes that ‘love’ defines ‘life’. ‘Life is bless, Love is bliss’, is his first book. He can be followed at www.travelandexplorewiththecritics.wordpress.com and www.thealchemycritics.blogspot.com

He currently lives in Chennai. He is Radiologist by profession. He also believes in creating a society that relies on values of kindness rather than money and materialism. To spread the same belief, he has been working with the society.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I owe this book to a lot of people.

It is with immense gratitude that I acknowledge the support and help of editors and publishers in ‘Partridge Publishing’.

Fellow bloggers, friends like ‘Prasanna Vaani’, ‘Senthil Kumar’, ‘Karthik Ponnusamy’ and ‘Pavithra Aayalusamy’, have been continuously reading my works and have helped me in my growth as a writer. I am indebted to all the blogging, poetic and literary communities, without them my skill as a writer would not have grown. Communities and groups like ‘Poetic Rally’, ‘Jingle Poetry’, ‘Haiku Heights’, ‘Blog-a-ton’ and ‘Indiblogger’ are few to mention. ‘Prithi Shaji’, has been influential in my works.

My deepest gratitude is for ‘Sweeya Khilji’, she is source of my many inspirations and she has directly impacted my writings. For the time she choose to stay with me, and for all the goodness she chooses to give me, I, owe her a lot.

Friends like ‘Vasanth’, ‘Thahir’, ‘Karthik Raj’, ‘Sathiyan’, ‘Dharun’, ‘Joe’ and ‘Subbhu’ have been my co-travelers in life, and they have inspired me as well. My ‘ Family’, nothing is possible without them. For the education and the opportunities they gave, I owe ‘My Parents’ a lot. I also thank my brother, brother in law and my grandmother for what they shared with me. ‘My Sister’ and ‘Dad’ has always been admirers of my writings.

Two special ones have to be credited here. Without them this book is not a possibility. In the most difficult of times, these two stuck up with me, bared all my nonsense and revived me. ‘Bilal’, has been a friend, a brother and has helped me patch my difficulties. ‘Reena Yadav’, I cannot find words to describe her and what I owe her. She