Review: Kaleidoscope – The Changing Colors of Love

First I will confess that reviewing a prose is much easier as compared to reviewing Poetry. The way poet plays with words in poems, one doesn’t have that freedom in prose. It’s like judging abstract art. You can like the art for entirely a different reason which the artist never thought of.

Coming to Kaleidoscope, the book we are talking about, it’s almost a year since the book is published and is in market. So reviewing after such a long gap, only because I wanted to, as I have read few of Rachna’s poems earlier. The poems I read were really deep and inspiring and justified the topic these addressed.

Now Kaleidoscope is one of the finest collection of poems I have read, of course among the contemporary poets. There are 37 poems in it, all dealing with different shades of Love.

Rachna has, I feel intentionally touched only the brighter side of Love covering different emotions. The dark side of love is not at all touched.

The book takes you through the Journey of love starting from first sight to happily married after.

The poetess has set the poems in modern times, so, as she is inspired by the love of old times but the means have changed. Like you have lovers messaging each other, rather than writing letter. The girl waiting for the mobile to beep rather than a Postman. And there are centuries she didn’t get a message or call rather than a Letter. Though still train remains lifeline for us, so her lover leaves by train to find a good job. But then She goes and receives him back at airport.

RAchna ji is a big supporter of Girl child and it reflects in her poems too when the baby to be born is addressed as “She”.

Overall the poems are so touching and real that one feels the emotions conveyed. Though in the middle few poems give the impression that the poet is trying to meet some deadline. But this feeling may be entirely due to fact that the initial poems raise the expectation level to such high that even a good poem looks ordinary.

The sequence in which poems are arranged take you through a smooth journey and one never feels sudden jumps or road blocks. A must read to learn how to write poetry and especially for all aspiring writers, just to know how important grammar is!

And at end: “Yeh Dil Maange More” Rachna Ji. So when is your next collection coming.

About Rachna Gupta:

Rachna is an educator, blogger, book reviewer, poet and writer whose words bring emotions to life. Her poems and stories revolve around feelings, people, life and relationships and resemble the morning ray of sunshine filtering through the leaves. When Rachna is not writing, she keeps herself busy teaching English to grownups, meeting new people who become characters in her work, reading and spending time with her son. She has two books to her credit: Myriad Hues and Kaleidoscope – The Changing Colors of Love, apart from stories and poems that can be found in various anthologies.

To know more about her, visit her website –http://rachnagupta.in/

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