Nature Lures

Nature Lures

The poems in this collection come from the daily experiences and observations of a “child” living, playing, and growing in nature.

Each poem came in their own time and flow here from dawn till dark — the womb of light.


Book Details

Author: Anandi Zhang
Print Length: 130
Publisher: Our Home, Auroville
Book format: Pdf
Language: English


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Sample

Nature Lures

Drizzles seep deep.
Torrents carry away.

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A mosquito inside the net —
A humming musician that annoys,
A constant companion
Through the night,
A relation of blood,
A hide-and-seek game of
Life or death.

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One thread is thrown in.
All fish swim over to catch it.

Pray not all become prey.


About Author

I’m Anandi Zhang. I live in Auroville. Poetic since childhood, I lost it somewhere along the way. Then, inspired by Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri and sonnets, as well as Kabir, Rumi and others’ poems, the poetic sense came back to me, and very organically I started to write down poetic expressions from inspirations, observations and reflections of life experiences. Mostly, the “poems” come on their own, in a poetic sense, images, words or whole poems, and I simply pen them down.

For me, poetry is a life-juicer, life-saver, and life-enricher. And I hope to inspire poetry reading and writing in a lot of people, to bring back the Poet that we are as eternal children. [Read more…]