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Literary Review
VERSE
Triumph over death
K. KUNHIKRISHNAN
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An exploration of a poet’s inner universe.
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In The Light of Fireflies: Poems; Sudha Rajkumar, Published by the author, Rs.140
“POETRY will steal death from me,” wrote Char Deno. Nothing can be more true of these evocative poems. They are in three sections: love, growth and celebration. The prologue explains that the poet faced tragedy in the sudden and unexpected death of her husband, whose Cessna-152 crashed in 1997.
Trauma
The poem, Death, explains that trauma of death. The intensity forced her to probe and question the significance and rationale of existence. She found answers in six years and felt the presence of a comforting love and care of a Supreme intelligence. The outcome of that serene feeling of absolute realisation and the journey to the inner self is “In the Light of Fireflies”. The idea is again expressed powerfully in, “Work and Death”:
The whole search was/ To seek my lost identity./ Now I know what I am./ Nothing less,/ But the Eternal being!(p 36).
“Who Am I” describes the emergence of poetry as the birth of a beautiful dream — first as an idea, then as energy, vibrations, sonance, and finally a dream fulfilled. Manifestation and experience of love permeates several poems and read like words of wisdom enunciated in the Upanishads. An ideal and sweet home is one filled with love, joy and abundance. And love, realises the poet, is only giving, without expecting any return. Love is also the window through which you can see and experience another’s world. This intuition is knowing without knowledge and like the natural bubbling of the consciousness.
Devotional
Almost all the poems in the collection are devotional explorations into the inner universe, “where exists thousand different worlds” and that the mind is the tool and body the vehicle “to carry you towards your Self”. This sublime stream of philosophical thread lingers all through. Poetry here is the revelation of the poet’s innermost realisations, which is powerfully conveyed to the reader in the first collection itself. The poems do not sound like those of a novice but of a mature writer expressing powerful emotions recollected in tranquillity.
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