# The Emerald Shores

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- Published: 2018-02-16T17:15:17+00:00
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**Author:** Asha Viswas[](https://writersworkshopindia.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/The-Emerald-Shores-e1518775151796.jpg)
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Pages:** 56 **Year of Publication:** 2017 **Price:** Rs 150 **ISBN:** 978-93-5045-
167-0 (9789350451670)

_**About the Author**_
 Asha Viswas is a former Professor of English, Benaras Hindu
University, Varanasi, India. She has also taught at Aligarh and at the University
of Calabar, Nigeria. She has published three collections of poems, two of which 
received awards: _Melting Memories_ (1996, Delhi) was a recipient of the Michael
Madhusudan Academy Award in 1997, and _**Mortgaged Moorings**_ (published by **Writers
Workshop**, India, 2001), a recipient of the Editors Choice Award given by the International
Library of Poetry, USA, in 2003. Her poems have been featured in the shortlist anthology
of the all-India poetry competition organized by British Council and the Poetry 
Society India, _Slug fest_ (USA) and journals like _Jalons_ (France), _Kavya Bharati_(
Madurai), _The Brob Times_ (Ireland). Some of her poems have been translated into
French. Last year, she was awarded the second prize in the all India poetry competition
organized by the Poetry Society India.

_**Teaser**_

_Beyond Your Thoughts_

Beyond all physical boundaries
 there lies the cosmic vastness – the wall-less ether
where the mind is drawn in a wave-less ocean.

All reality is a fiction – temporary
 aggregation of atoms in constant motion, bright
foam bubbles on the seashore of life, materialized cosmic dream creation.

If you reach the depths without the waves
 He is there just beyond your thoughts.
The restless waves of creation rise and fall on the ocean of infinity.

_**Contents**_
 41 poems