My 5th book, "Letters from the Soul" launched in Blogchatter eBook Carnival

It's a very special day because my 5th book "Letters from the Soul" is launched today in the coveted #BlogchatterEbook Carnival Season 4 along with other wonderful eBooks. 

"Letters from the Soul" is a collection of 55 poems on soul healing, soul searching, and soul companions. I started working on it last year when I participated in the A-Z blogging challenge. I wanted more than 26 poems in this book and therefore I didn't publish it last year after the blogging challenge. I have experimented with more than 24 poetry forms in the book apart from writing in free verse. That was creatively so satiating.

I have divided the book into 4 seasons: Autumn, Winter, Spring, and Summer to show that life is just like a seasonal cycle. The way autumn gives way to spring, emptiness gives way to abundance. I got this idea after reading Toni Morrison's novel "The Bluest Eye".

If you enjoy reading my poetry, please go to the link mentioned below and download a free promotional copy of the eBook. 

 https://www.theblogchatter.com/download/purba-chakrabortys-letters-from-the-soul/

The eBook will be free for a limited time. So grab your copy and let me know your feedback. I can assure you that the poems in the book will give solace to your heart and soul. 

After the eBook carnival ends in June, I plan to launch the book on Amazon Kindle and then hopefully, release the paperback edition of the book by end of the year. 

The book is dedicated to all the believers, fighters, dreamers, and go-getters. I will need your support and reviews on this journey. Written with a lot of love, "Letters from the Soul" is now all yours. I welcome you on this soulful journey!

Eclipse: An Etheree (Letters from the Soul #5)

Light

And Dark

Birth and death

Life, a see-saw

Dance of universe;

A beautiful eclipse

Is a message from heaven

Nothing we see is permanent

The earth, in perennial motion

We flow with the duality of life.

© Purba Chakraborty 

05.04.2018

Note: This is an Etheree. The poetry form, etheree consists of 10 unrhymed lines of 1, 2, 3,4, 5,6,7,8,9, 10 syllables. It was created by an Arkansas poet called Etheree Taylor Armstrong.

Read Letters from the Soul #4 here

Blessed forever: A Ballad (Letters from the Soul #2)

She crossed the plains and the verdant meadow

Whispered a prayer under the shade of a tree

Her gait, now tired and slow

Her hands heavy with baggage three.

Uneven breathing; no help at sight

The sweltering afternoon turns deaf ear to her misery

Her hope shriveled with weariness and thirst

From the curse of her life, she wanted to be free.

She struggled to walk into the yonder

Till she fell unconscious again;

She looked at the sky with wonder

When her senses got revived in the rain.

The petrichor was the balm to her ache

She picked her baggage and began walking

When someone called her from the back

She saw a lad in her direction, running.

"Miss, may I be of some help?", he asked

She nodded as he took two bags from her hand

Amid drizzles and the long journey, they talked

About everything in each other's world.

In a few hours, they reached the destination

She bid goodbye to the guiding spirit

With him and the Divine, she felt a vivid connection

"I am blessed forever", she finally believed.

© Purba Chakraborty 

02.04.2018

Note: This is a ballad. Ballad is a poem that is typically arranged in quatrains with the rhyme scheme ABAB. Ballads are usually narrative, which means they tell a story. 

Read Letters from the Soul #1 here