# The Poetic Journey

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**Author:** Priyanka Sacheti
 **Pages:** 158 **Year of Publication:** 2000 **Price:**
HB Rs 150, FB Rs 60 **ISBN:** HB 81-7595-604-6 (8175956046) FB 81-7595-605-4 (8175956054)

**_About the Author:_**
 Priyanak Sacheti was born in Melbourne (Australia) on March
9, 1982 and completed her schooling in Muscat (Oman). She has been a prolific writer
and reader from an early age, having published her maiden poem in a Gulf children’s
magazine, just after turning 8. She has written several hundred poems and a number
of short stories. _The Poetic Journey_, her third book of poetry, is a collection
of poems written during the decade 1989-1999.

**_Teaser:_**

_Or So the Pain Said_

Once,
 Someone said To an impoverished, Unhappy Little girl Who seemed Bent upon
On crying: “You must see The pain And suffering In this world And then you’ll really
cry.” And so The little girl said, instantly “Get me a mirror And I’ll see it for
myself.”

**_Contents:_**
 Poor Pie / 13 My Little Plant / 14 The Star / 15 Rabbit / 16 Beyond
the Fence / 19 The Splendour of Oman / 20 Trolls / 21 A Stray Glade in the Meadow/
22 Rose and the Smile / 24 Ocean / 27 Kittens / 29 The Earth — Our Home / 31 A Peaceful
Scene / 33 The Beach of Death / 36 The Nightmare / 38 Delhi — I Am Proud of You /
39 But a Happy… / 41 The Garden under the Spell of Rain / 45 Conversations / 47 
Paper Birds / 50 Building Sand-Castles / 52 The One with the Pot, Watching Buddha
Meditate / 54 Chikka / 56 Grotesque Surprises! / 58 Truth / 59 No Reprieve / 61 
The Wonderland / 63 Kathuptuhli / 67 Bubble Bath / 69 A Desert Look / 71 Deja Vu/
73 Fashion Plates / 75 Glass Balls / 78 Who? Me? / 80 Attempting to Paint / 80 The
Doors / 82 Butterflies on the Shore / 84 Leaving / 85 Sweet Cinnamon / 87 The Awakening/
91 The Sky / 92 Poetry in the Wind / 93 Militant’s Thoughts / 94 City of My Dreams/
96 Out — Caught at… / 98 1942 — A Love Story / 100 That Tumultuous Evening in 1938/
101 Blooms of Flattery / 102 The Fleeting Smile / 103 The Mood / 104 Sweeping Dunes/
105 1982-1997 / 109 Do Not Tell Me to Stop Crying / 110 Answers / 111 Chalo Cinema/
113 Wrinkle — An Ode to All You Models / 114 Some Time Ago / 115 Or So the Pain 
Said / 116 Perfect Person Preserved in Plastic / 117 Because You Are a Woman / 118
When People Will Gossip Maliciously / 119 Partition: Snapshots of a Trauma / 121
I Understand, Great Grandmother / 124 Mirror, Mirror on the Wall / 127 Intervention/
128 The Pond Full of Secrets / 129 An Interview with a Fading… / 131 The Doomed 
Bride / 132 Walking through the Passage / 133 Tell Me / 135 Strawberries and Cream/
136 Suicide / 137 The Rejected Flowers / 138 A Chat over Coffee / 140 An Interlude
with Destiny / 143 “What an Appetite!” / 147 A Nostalgic Trip to the Mango Grove/
149 A Walk with My Soul / 152 The Handprints on… / 154 Kargil — 1 / 155 Kargil —
2 / 157