# Reveries and Recollections

- Link: https://writersworkshopindia.com/2019/03/12/reveries-and-recollections/
- Published: 2019-03-12T03:30:25+00:00
- Author: shuktara

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**Author:** Gautham Ramakrishnan[](http://www.writersworkshopindia.com/site/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Reveries-and-Recollections.jpg)
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Pages:** 64 **Year of Publication:** 2018 **Price:** Rs 200 **ISBN:** 978-93-5045-
193-9 (9789350451939)

_**About the Author**_
 Born in Chennai in 1991, Gautham Ramakrishnan has been dabbling
in poetry since the age of 14. A student of arts and humanities, he is a teacher
and basketball coach in Kodaikanal, and, believing in the power of words – which
have the ability to give wings to imagination and creativity – he is on a mission
to teach children to read and enjoy books.

_**Teaser**_

_Sun and Moon_

As crisp memory
 And an evanescent vision Rarely ever does abscond Beyond the realms
of thought As it slips through sunlit rooftops Between the closing walls That rise
in the sinking night.

I woke up beside a bright
 And burning star, I had dreamt I was consumed By the 
jaws of the wolf, The fangs tearing Swallowing the moon and the sun. I dreamt of
a mirror Reflecting time upon my face, And dreams of hours Have moved beyond its
grasp As the darkness of the unknown Lurks behind the dawn of sight.

The stars spare no disquiet
 But wink mischievously behind The silent veil of night,
While the sun dies Behind the moon’s laughter And such a universe Prolongs my waiting
love Of a deathly silence Of a life altered by every breath I take, Left behind 
by the empty spaces of memory.

_**Contents**_
 _Preface_ / 7

REVERIES / 9
 Children / 11 Introspector / 12 Imprints / 13 Hurt by Nothing / 14
The Spectre / 15 Being Human / 19 Zero / 20 Needle / 22 Wish / 24 The Indifference
of Angels / 25 I Am People / 26 Spider Down the Gutter / 27 God / 29 Thoughts Like
Rain / 30 Modern Beauty / 31 The Castaway Night / 33 Matchbox / 34 Anticipator /
36 The Nihilist / 37 The Sadist / 38 The Pacifist / 39 Black Moth / 40 Sun and Moon/
41 My Empty Box / 42 Love-Me-Not / 43 Sunlight / 44

RECOLLECTIONS / 45
 1-39 / 47