Haiku, Tanka, Short Verse, Quatrain and Poems

This collection is dedicated to my Soulmate Late Waheeda Tasmia Peeran (11-7-1957 to 9-9-2018)

A Walia is Born
A pure soul from oblivion and heaven
Descends down on this hassling world
Where cruelty cohabits with callousness
Where darkness prevails in hearts
Where self-interest persists menacingly
Where intellect is at its lowest ebb
Where man cannot live in harmony
Where peace has escaped to ethereal world
Where passions over powers wisdom.
A Divine light burning in devoted hearts
To bear a fruit of heaven on Earth
A savitri, a fathima is born in unholy land
To bless and purify the decaying world.
Showers the wretched with gold, silver,
With milk of human kindness
To soften the human heart.
To sow seeds of love in barren land
Transforms to Durga to punish wicked
To revive true spirituality
A goddess born in a deserted land.
In a family of virtuous worshipful devotees.

Preface

I am presenting to my readers my fourth selection of poetry (followed by Evergreen Pastures) from my fifteen poetry books comprising of 1275 poems, 722 Haiku, 107 Tanka, 87 Quatrains and 47 short verses.

The works are In Golden Times (2000, Holi: Bhubaneswar), In Golden Moments (2001, Bizz Buzz: Bangalore), A Ray of Light (2002, Bizz buzz), A Search from Within (2002, Holi), In Silent Moments (2002, Holi), A Call from the Unknown (2003, Bizz Buzz), New Frontiers (2005, Holi), Fountains of Hopes (2006, Bizz Buzz), In Rare Moments (2007, Bizz Buzz), In Sacred Moments, (2008, Bizz Buzz), Glittering Love (2009, Bizz Buzz), Garden of Bliss (2011, Bizz Buzz), Eternal Quest, (2014, Bizz Buzz), Evergreen Pastures (2016, Authorpress) which was my first collection from all the prior works.

It was difficult for me to select and make choice of poems for this collection entitled Perfumed Garden of Love. I have included poems on God, Islam, Prophets, nature of man and topical poems. There are 335 poems including Haiku, Tanka, Quatrains and short verse. I pray in future some scholar will be able to make a better choice for future publication. I hope and pray my work will be relished by readers, academics and scholars alike. I am thankful to the publishers for accepting my work for publication.

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Introduction

Here I am presenting my fourth selection from the collection of my poetry. My poetry as described by many of the reviewers has assumed different dimension.

Dr. Krishna Srinivas Editor-in-Chief of Poet, in his foreword to my work In Golden Times had this to say:

Like Blake, Peeran sees the world in a grain of sand and
eternity in an hour. An administrator lisping in numbers may sound strange but Muse in Peeran has blossomed into many splendored
exuberance in this collection of poems – In Golden Times. Every moment of Time is a mountain. Invisible, magical realities beyond our senses float out of the unconscious, when the boundaries between the self and world are crossed. It opens expanded moments. The poet dives into these moments – one with nature, its darkness and mystery. Thus poems gleam as magical chalices, reality winking at the brim. Here in this collection, there is a self discovery new ground to liberate emotions”.

Dr. Krishna Srinivas Editor-in-Chief of Poet

And further penned:

He writes HAIKU and TANKA with illumined vision. There is inner vibrancy, a matchless verbal incantation in his lyrics! They gleam as flames, intense and fine. They have visible brilliance. They have deep poignancy. And there is passionate naturalness in all he writes

Dr. Krishna Srinivas Editor-in-Chief of Poet

Patricia Prime concluded her review of Glittering Love:

I am delighted to declare that this is an excellent collection of poems. Peeran is a hugely skilful wordsmith, and his careful technique always creates meaning. His language is of such freshness and richness of allusion that one willingly makes the effort to untangle the complex
connotation of a line or phrase. It is exciting to see a poet walk this line, exhibiting as he does a vigor and freshness of imagination that delights the heart and lifts the spirit.

Patricia Prime

Dr. D. C. Chambial (editor, poet, critic) in his ‘Foreword’ to my eighth collection of poems Fountains of Hopes writes:

“The poems are topical in consonance with the mood of the poet at its best in his moments of imaginative gleamings from the moods of the inspired world. The poet partakes them with his readers: it is here a poet moves into the minds of his readers and lets them experience, for themselves, the same joy and sorrow, hope and despair that he has felt in his moments of ecstasy.”

Dr. D. C. Chambial

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Haiku

Marriage is bargain
There is no life without wife
Chains around neck.

On our enemies fall
There is glee & joy galore
Release of tension.

Atop the fine world
Moments of exhilaration
For a tumble down