AUDIBLE UNDERTONES : RAMAKANT DAS: A REVIEW

Review of Audible Undertones
“I should gift you
 My passionate musings
Of compassionate words
In fine rhetoric and prosody
I said.
……

Recite them;
They’ll embrace you in a cosy warmth
…….
They’ll paint a rainbow
on your blank sky.”
Says the poet in his very first poem [To an unwilling Reader of Poetry p 9]

And he does   succeed in embracing us in a cosy warmth, by his powerful imagery, painting the vibrant hues of the rainbow, and effortlessly making us a part of his inner sojourn, his passions, his dreams, and fears.   One’s ears are tuned to the soft, soothing undertones of his poems, a magical cadence that flows from the myriad layers –pain , pathos , ecstasy, sensuality , romance and   the different ‘shades of love’ [51] where he pours out his heart to his beloved, talking of music , melody and magic, their years of warm togetherness and of her eloquent silence:
“Do you know
 There are moments
When your silence is so eloquent
And at other, your eloquence
Has a silencing effect on me
Like the autumn winds
On the leafy- virgin- forest?”[P 55]
This slim book of poems, with its mystical sensibilities, its philosophical underpinnings, its reference to mythology and classicism and its sensuality, leaves one with a lingering aftertaste which has the power of enriching a mundane world, as his is a language of the heart which appeals to all.
This is a book which all lovers of poetry will love to possess.
 Authors Press, Delhi, has indeed done a commendable job, once again with the cover, so much so, that one can almost hear the undertones of the subdued hues of the beautiful cover .Hats off!

BOOK: AUDIBLE UNDERTONES
GENRE: POETRY
POET: Ramakant Das
 PUBLISHERS: AUTHORS PRESS, Delhi
PP 64
 PRICE: Rs 250 , $ 12