Rapidly Blue 2: Nova's Secret

Well it's been sent personally by my hand to the printers so in 3-4 weeks it will be out - finally!

Here's a small preface from it:

Romantic love

This is the theme that binds most of the poems together. She would see him every day at the same coffee shop is a straightforward young love poem. Like all young loves, it is a shy love. I would like to come up to you and smile, but I am afraid to give it away that it is you, I like. The poet of course has his means of expressing his emotions: I try to listen to the wind – wishing it would whisper your name. She seems to reciprocate in her own coy demure manner and the poet’s heart flies, it soars and he would like to shout out to the world that you are my life. There are a few rough edges like did you know that when you leave the coffee shop, I would wish for more chances for us to meet or the pedestrian he moved over to her and gave her a tissue but all this is counterbalanced by the unforgettable manner in which the poet’s thoughts roam and rhyme. The craft is not perfect, but the heart is in the right place. And what is a poet without a heart? Blue ribbon beauty describes a chance encounter that has possibilities. They are close to one another and the poet feels that his life is embodied by the jewels that are around me: your eyes, your lips and the elegance. He feels that she is like a wildflower blooming and they both wonder what took you so long to come into my life. But time’s winged chariot is moving and she has to leave. She leaves leaving behind something. Her blue ribbon and the poet knows there would always be another encounter, perhaps a more fulfilling one because of the blue ribbon within my hands. If and when is a strange but endearing combination of the trivial and the delicate. The poet has a heart and a mind but like his game consoles he cannot use them. What use is his watch, if time itself is not good enough for him to have her? He has the world at his fingertips, but no one to share it with. In some ways, this leads us to the second most important theme that courses through this collection. It is the theme of isolation and it is not entirely unconnected to the theme of love..

Hope you will enjoy it as much as I will when it comes out..