Monalisa Joshi

Teracotta Dreams Monalisa Joshi

Her heart is the vessel overflowing with myriad hues of emotions like glee, melancholy, nostalgia, reminiscences, fantasy and most of all with love. This poetry book has been written in an intriguing and captivating way which after reading will make you fall in love with the poems as well as with the poet. The great imagery, vivid narration and her fluid imagination will take you to the world of ballads, folklore and into another realm of fantasy and romance. The love poems particularly will touch your heart and you will find the words resonating and soul stirring both. The uniqueness of the book is one place you find the poet poignant and in the next moment her pious and defiant love towards her beloved can be seen. The mundane, the contemporary and the classic all the elements are merged like beads in a necklace within this book seeming to be completely inseparable from each other. The verses and the musings contained in it would certainly echo longer inside your soul even after you have finished reading the book. The book is an alluring summon for all, to come and fall in love with poetry. Her sermon to you... Thy love is the refuge I want, Thy romance is the sanctuary I need, Thy heart is the place I want to call, Home and thy glance make me more, Beautiful and I ever desire to stay within, Your breaths for as long as they shall flow, My presence shall be known as thy muse Monalisa's Musings