If anybody is looking for the kind of poetry that does not leave him staring blankly before him with a puzzled look, and bewildering as to the exact meaning of what is said in it, well, then, here is a book for him.
To Amerope and Other Poems contains poetry that expresses what I think and feel, my perceptions and responses in as unpretentious and plain a manner as matches the simplicity of its content. My sincere effort is to make my poetic endeavours pleasurable to my readers. But I leave it to the readers and critics to judge its aesthetic value. In regard to its contents, the readers will not find in it anything which is not written out of compulsion to write.
Sleeplessness is my first serious effort at writing and also my first finished work. It was written around 1995. What I failed to describe before a doctor, I think, I have successfully described in this poem When I was under one of the spells of sleeplessness, I wrote this poem to kill time during those nights and to sublimate my frustration through writing something that pleased me.
To Amerope was written upon reading somewhere about the new law introduced in the USA to ban all signs that evoked Christianity and its values from public and government places. It's very disturbing indeed to see Christian values disappear from all spheres of life as it is lived in the world known as Christian - by the world which is considered non-Christian - but which prides itself for having gone secular. To Amerope is addressed exactly to this world. I have tried to point out that time will show to those who have eyes to see the writing on the wall that Christianity and its values are of the essence to the life lived in theChristian world. If they are to stop living by this light, it will be their undoing by their own hands. It will make them part of the world of which the form is passing away. That is what we are witnessing now
The last of the three major poems contained in this slender volume is Dream Sequence. It is about what its title suggests. What I saw in my dream I translated into this poem. I have tried to capture the atmosphere that pervaded my dream.