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    Blue Letters
    Blue Letters
    Blue Letters
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    Blue Letters

    By Danish Abdi

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    This book is a collection of poems, compiled over many years; inspired by love that I've seen and experienced, nostalgia that still remains, many a rendezvous with nature and all it contains - and thoughts brought on by a mountain peak or a full moon night. While retaining the existential and cosmic commentary, I hope the poems cover an emotional spectrum that each of you can relate to. I hope that they stir some memories of similar experiences or thoughts and urge more; I hope that one day, I get to read your musings.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMINDPOP
    Release dateMar 22, 2018
    ISBN9781386619536
    Blue Letters
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    Danish Abdi

    Danish Abdi hails from Bhavnagar (Gujarat), having spent most of his childhood there. After his higher schooling from Vadodara, he graduated from BITS Pilani, Pilani campus, with B.E (Hons.) in Electrical and Electronics Engineering. He is a musician, writer, sketch artist, travel and nature enthusiast, an ardent cyclist, and currently works in JP Morgan & Chase, Bangalore. He maintains a blog detailing his travels (wanderingdanish.blogspot.in) and has a YouTube channel. His father was an organic chemist with CSMCRI and is now a consultant in Indirapuram. His mother worked as an environment researcher with CEE and is now a freelance writer. They’re both amateur photographers. He has an elder brother, working as a journalist in New Delhi.

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      Blue Letters - Danish Abdi

      Acknowledgements

      First of all, Mitesh and Aditya - you guys made this happen. Thank you, and I hope this book is enough of a success that we can continue to work together. Best of luck for your other launches too.

      Vedant Sapra - you creative genius. My film-maker and photographer friend, fellow wanderer and nature enthusiast - we have so many projects in the pipeline. Thank you for the brilliant cover page. People, do check out his Instagram and YouTube accounts - they’re filled to the brim with works of art. I hope to continue collaborating.

      Pratyusha Rao - another fellow artist. It was her idea to make the cover a double exposure photograph; ingenious. Whatever butterfly effect causes this book to reach people; the flap of your wings was part of it. A treat is assured; whenever you come to Bangalore.

      My parents - for being among the few people for whom words fail me. My father; for inspiring in me the love for nature and art, and science. I shall get around to Urdu poetry, one day, and call you first. My mother; for inspiring in me the love for literature and spirituality. Thank you for the preface; you shall be my biggest critic and role model for writing, always. Do check out her blogs; Ashodara, Travelnaama and Moviarty.

      Agatha Christie and Edgar Allan Poe. This book is but a ripple left by your works; I shall forever be striving to emulate you.

      Music, dance, sports, words, travel, art, food and all the people in my life; each of you has been a reason in some way for each of these poems.

      All of the people and experiences I have yet to meet; it’s only a matter of time.

      Preface

      The soul often speaks through the heart, and that is called poetry; that should be the only rule to define poetry. It flows like water, sometimes with the turmoil of ocean waves and sometimes with the calming rhythm of a mountain spring. It has its own music, that emerges with a spontaneous positioning of certain words in a specific order. This music can be jolting; like boulders rolling down a mountain slope, or soothing; like a drizzle on a misty morning. Feelings too, have a subtle sound and vibration to them, and the music that emerges from a poem is a result of the combination of the sound of the words, and the feelings that they convey.

      A sensitive observer cannot deny that

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