# Whispering Shadows (2nd edition)

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- Published: 2015-07-14T18:53:21+00:00
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**Author:** D. Veeru Reddy
 **Pages:** 76 **Year of Publication:** First published
2003, Reprint 2006, Second edition 2014 **Price:** Rs 200 **ISBN:** 978-93-5045-
078-9 (9789350450789)

_**About the Author**_
 D. Veeru Reddy worked at the Taj Coromandel Hotel, Chennai
where he held various positions before retiring as the Regional Manager of Administration
and Materials in the Taj Group of hotels. His first book of poems, _**Feeling Unlimited**_
was published by **Writers Workshop**, India. His poem ‘Wisdom in flight’, which
appears in the present collection, received the Editor’s Choice award from the International
Library of Poetry, Maryland, USA.

Reddy is a Hindustani Classical vocalist and is also interested in photography. 
He has two children who live in the United States. He lives with his wife in Chennai.

_**Teaser**_

_A matter of life and death_

Death resides lightly on our tongues,
 we give it voice with frivolity – dying to
meet you, could have died laughing, dead tired, deathly silence, dying for a drink,
dead ahead, feel like death, dead loss, etcetra, etcetra.

Perspiring Cricketers
 contemplating the future at the ‘death’ overs.

Exasperated Footballers
 bracing themselves to face the ‘sudden-death’ period at
the lapse of extra time.

For that extra time,
 do take care of life – it is the sole property of Death.

Dead right!

_**Contents**_
 47 poems