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    Letters to the Muse Ii: The Return of Love
    Letters to the Muse Ii: The Return of Love
    Letters to the Muse Ii: The Return of Love
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    Letters to the Muse Ii: The Return of Love

    By Ajit Sripad Rao Nalkur

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    Poet Ajit Sripad Rao Nalkur has been writing since age eleven and was initially inspired by the poor of the city in which he was raised. Throughout his many travels, he came to love the country folk he met. This empathy for the underprivileged, along with the innocence found in farming communities, defined his uncomplicated approach to writing poetry.

    In this poetry collection, his seventhand second of a possible trilogyNalkur continues to narrate the story of his love affair with the Muse, focusing on her and the effect she has on his world. Letters to the Muse II: The Return of Love flows on from the previous collection of the same title and is arranged chronologically to preserve continuity of the underlying story.

    His subjects are the poor and simple folk of the city and countryside. His love for humanity inspires the simplistic approach he chases throughout his life in writing. This is a peaceful collection that delves into the mysterious realms of love between dream and reality, seeking to achieve the fusion of the two worlds with poetic force and expression.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateMay 17, 2017
    ISBN9781532022616
    Letters to the Muse Ii: The Return of Love
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    Ajit Sripad Rao Nalkur

    Ajit Sripad Rao Nalkur is a full time poet, lifelong traveler, lover of the wilderness, and father of five. He currently lives on a beach in South India with his wife, Jaya, with whom he shares the love of gardening. He has previously published five poetry books, the last of which was Flowers from the Heart, Songs of the Soul.

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      Letters to the Muse Ii - Ajit Sripad Rao Nalkur

      Copyright © 2017 Ajit Sripad Rao Nalkur.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the author except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

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      ISBN: 978-1-5320-2262-3 (sc)

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      ISBN: 978-1-5320-2261-6 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2017907145

      iUniverse rev. date: 05/15/2017

      Contents

      Introduction

      Unknown

      Living Art

      Art and Poetry

      Within

      Of Gods and Goddesses of Love

      The Reality of Love

      The Hostile Reality of Illusory Worlds

      Explosion

      The Goddess

      Openness and Choice

      Determination

      New Beginning

      The Magic of Poetry

      Home at Last

      The Hidden Smile

      Immortal Lord

      Anticipation

      Love at all Cost

      Pointless Worship

      Purge

      Gloom

      Reflection

      With the Gods

      Mystical Lovers

      A Home for the Soul

      Eternal Romance

      Happy Muse

      It Takes a Lot of Tears …

      Broken Hearts of Stone

      Purity

      Forever Young

      Strange Times …

      Universal Heart

      Nature as Muse

      The Island of the Two-in-One

      True Survival

      Haven in the Storm

      Hidden World

      Creator

      The Falsehood of Human Love

      Give and Take

      Stormy Victory

      Eternal Dawn

      Winter on a Tropical Beach (or) Alone with the Muse

      Love Knows

      Hidden Retreat

      Soul of Creation

      The Kiss of the Soul

      Waking Up (or) He and She

      Love

      Wideness

      Goddess of the Sun

      The Endless Beginning

      Completion (One)

      Cradled

      Song of Happiness

      Sharing All

      Fresh Air

      The Natural Knowing

      Walk out the Door …

      Eternal Muse

      My beautiful Maiden …

      Love is Deathless

      Milk and Honey

      Island Paradise

      Adam and Eve

      The Truth

      Possession

      Being Human

      Love and Immortality

      The Why of all Things

      The End of our Effort

      Transcendent Future

      Two as One, one with All

      All Life is Poetry

      Walking with Time

      The Smile of the Soul

      The Longing

      The Source of Inspiration

      To the Muse of my Freedom

      Deep and High

      Being in Love

      The Open Flower

      Embrace

      Love Above and Below

      Natural Lover

      The Gift

      Immortal be!

      Contact

      Happy and Creative

      Love is Reborn …

      Into the Naked Light

      I Wait for the Day …

      Worship

      Loving Nature

      Love knows Why

      Born to Love

      Final Freedom

      The Dance

      Soul-Strength

      Beyond the Threshold of Pain …

      Birth of Wisdom

      The Book of Love and Tears

      My Sunlit Smile

      Deathless

      A Hidden Truth

      Lost on Earth, found in Heaven

      God

      The New Birth

      Solitude

      Shared Independence

      Tryst of Destiny

      Love’s Garden

      Yes

      Nature as Bride

      The Endless Kiss

      Special

      True Love Tryst

      Cosmic Passion

      Smitten

      No Imaginary Walk

      Soul-Companion

      New World

      True Love has No Limits

      The Language of the Soul

      At Last

      Romance

      The Vision of Love

      Keep your Eyes open …

      Spirit-Companion

      Everything

      Simply being Love

      A deeper Love

      Play me a Song …

      Isle of the Muse

      Home

      Hope and Faith

      Breakthrough

      This Nothing …

      One

      Completion (Two)

      The Eternal Flame

      Soul-Kiss

      Romeo and Juliet Retold (The End)

      Disrobed

      Herald

      A Promise of Rain

      By Beauty Surprised

      Paradise Again

      Calm the Sea of Eternity …

      A Welcome Vacancy

      Fearing Freedom

      A Constant and Natural Surrender

      Until …

      The Horizon

      When Love has taken You …

      Beyond the Beyond

      Destined

      Feeling the Love

      Closer …

      Love Letter

      The Great Surprise

      The Return

      Only love Is

      About the Author

      To Elle,

      Czarina of my Soul

      Introduction

      When reading poetry, this poet recommends doing so with the heart more than the mind. To benefit the most, use the mind as an open channel through which the river of the heart flows, for these poems are of the heart and to read them with a non-interfering mind assures the smoothness of their flow from the soul of the poet to the soul of the reader.

      This collection flows on from the previous one of the same title, and is arranged in chronological order to preserve continuity of the underlying story. The sub-title, as with the previous book, speaks for itself. It appears that a third volume is in order. However, the pen has demanded that it rest before doing so. The nature of a third volume is anybody’s guess. And as always, it is up to the Muse to put that pen back in my hand.

      Enjoy!

      Ajit Sripad Rao Nalkur

      Unknown

      Too bright the sun, too white the foam

      Along the shores of home,

      Too still the breeze, the dance of trees,

      Walking on my own.

      Too quiet the mind seeks to find

      A way to understand

      Life is just a moment

      Stretched across the sand.

      Footprints are the traces

      Of having met the call

      Of love, its many faces,

      I walk before the All.

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      Living Art

      Journey across an endless sea,

      Run on a beach, wild and free,

      Fly in the sky immortally,

      Leap into eternity!

      Dance in the rain to wash the pain,

      Joy in the moment again and again,

      Awaken the body, effort is gain,

      Silence the mind to bliss regain!

      Walk in the woods, sing with the birds,

      Laughter is sunshine, Love not a word,

      Marvel at beauty, the dawn unfurl,

      Rouse the sun-god’s golden curls!

      Look not back on the dim and dark,

      Stand on the peaks of the soul-lit spark,

      Smile as wide as a cosmic heart,

      Come whole or apart, make it an

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