The third book of the poems after “Dewdrop and Banyan Tree”,” Smiling in the Sleep” by Ramachandran Rajasekharan is a delectable treat for lovers of Poetry, with creative imagination and eloquence of expression, provides the readers with an awesome experience of inner delight. Each of these forty poems has an underlying innate theme, a strong message that the author conveys, in varying dimensions, the poet’s transient emotions of joy, sadness, excitement, ecstasy, anger, frustration, solemnity, and depression even as he closely observes the kaleidoscope of the day-to-day events in the world around, nature, life and of the reality that unfolds before his searching eyes and concerned mind. As he encounters the vivid sensory experiences of sight, sound, smell and touch, he weaves them with the images he perceived, saw, or imagined into a fine tapestry and gives expression to them in his poetic words to allow the readers to experience for themselves the specific sensations as intended by him."
The third book of the poems after “Dewdrop and Banyan Tree”,” Smiling in the Sleep” by Ramachandran Rajasekharan is a delectable treat for lovers of Poetry, with creative imagination and eloquence of expression, provides the readers with an awesome experience of inner delight. Each of these forty poems has an underlying innate theme, a strong message that the author conveys, in varying dimensions, the poet’s transient emotions of joy, sadness, excitement, ecstasy, anger, frustration, solemnity, and depression even as he closely observes the kaleidoscope of the day-to-day events in the world around, nature, life and of the reality that unfolds before his searching eyes and concerned mind. As he encounters the vivid sensory experiences of sight, sound, smell and touch, he weaves them with the images he perceived, saw, or imagined into a fine tapestry and gives expression to them in his poetic words to allow the readers to experience for themselves the specific sensations as intended by him."