Rhythms!

by Sagar Waingankar

Rhythms is a set of poems from a young poet, Sagar Waingankar. These poems are open for all age groups as they narrate & elaborate ideas, perspective, state of mind of a growing kid.

Author here tries to express day-to-day experiences, his mindset; tender & emotion based way of looking at world around. His writings helped him to maintain his theory of factual realization that comes through circumstances & conditions, life brings to us. This is a fascinating art form which helped author to keep his emotions, feelings and thoughts alive, since he became aware about growth and knowledge around. These are natural & pure thoughts of an individual who's trying to keep things simple for him. Thought about every emotion he felt for any figure around him & illustrated the gesture to synchronize with his patterns, to make them feel simple.

These writings involve romance, nature, peace, value of oneness, feelings, thoughts, state of mind, light, celestial bonding and much more, an individual can feel in and around him. It's a journey, he believed that made him realize his challenges and thrills experienced in past & present which develops a hope for future.

Hope you enjoy this free flow!

212 pages, Paperback

First published October 14, 2014

About the author

Born and brought up in Dombivli (A city in Thane district from Maharashtra, India). A person just like you with certain gifts, currently working with an autonomous body under Ministry of Labour, Govt. of India (ESIC). Academically, an undergraduate of Science with Chemistry as key subject for specialization, yet searching reasons for completing his degree.

Suspicious about different behaviours around & questions that make him high since childhood, illustrating now through poems. He wish, he write, never dare to care about the place or surroundings or topics!

One World, One Religion, One Love, he believes!

Reviews

[Philip Dodd · Rating 4 out of 5]

I found Rhythms by Sagar Waingankar to be an enjoyable, interesting collection of poems to read. Rhythms is a good title for a collection of poems, I think. Firstly, I found the poems in the book interesting because they are written by a poet from India, so his use of the English language is strange to my English ears, and secondly, because he is a scientist, his special course of study being in chemistry, and it seems unusual to me that a person with such interests should write in verse. It is rare for a scientist to write verse or prose fiction, which is why the poems of Sagar Waingankar are unlike many others I have read. Like a true scientist, all through his verses, he is constantly searching for the truth of things, questioning his experiences and relationships, himself, at work and in pleasure, at the same time, he reveals himself to be very spiritually alive, awake. It seems to me that he uses the writing of verse as a tool for his questing spirit to journey within himself and to explore the outer world. In his poems, he is often critical of himself and others, but is always more positive than negative, which is good, refreshing.
I particularly liked the first two lines of a poem called Eloquent Denial, which read to me like an Oriental poem, complete in itself:
"Sense of pleasure flowed in me,
As I helped a fish drowning in sea."
All good poems should have lines worthy to be quoted, I think, and there are quite a few other lines I could quote that I particularly liked. The poems have good titles, too, such as Radiance of Water, Remarkable Workshop and Shine Guiding Nowhere. Good titles are important, I think.
Rhythms is a collection of poems written by a clever, complex, questioning, searching young man that could be enjoyed by readers of poetry of any age. I am sixty two, so the poems reminded me of what it is like to be young, in your late teens and early twenties, stimulated by what is going on around you, while deciding what is truly worthy of attention, and what must be avoided, and always, deeper down, there is the search for love and spiritual freedom.

[Sagar Waingankar · Rating 5 out of 5]

Rhythms! aren't just melodies or rhymes that make one flatter but it's a feeling that makes one value thoughts and ideas which often hover in our head. Working on them help us to understand tricky situations and lead to new discoveries. It's a book that enriches value of emotions, feelings, thoughts and learning along with sharing. Will be glad to listen more from you!
Hope you enjoy the free flow!

Regards,
Sagar Waingankar