Michael and I are very excited to have Balroop Singh visiting us today to talk about her lovely new poetry book, Timeless Echoes, and share one of her delightful poems.
The blurb
Certain desires and thoughts remain within our heart, we can’t express them, we wait for the right time, which never comes till they make inroads out of our most guarded fortresses to spill on to the pages of our choice. This collection is an echo of that love, which remained obscure, those yearnings that were suppressed, the regrets that we refuse to acknowledge. Many poems seem personal because they are written in first person but they have been inspired from the people around me – friends and acquaintances who shared their stories with me.
Some secrets have to remain buried because they are ours
We do share them but only with the stars
The tears that guarded them were as precious as flowers
Soothing like balm on festering scars.
While there are no boxes for grief and joy, some persons in our life are more closely associated with these emotions. Their separation shatters us, their memories echo, we grieve but life does not stagnate for anyone…it is more like a river that flows despite the boulders. When imagination and inspiration try to offer solace, poetry that you are about to read springs forth.
The Editor’s Review
Half of what we say are lies although they might be considered true, but truth with one’s self is an accepted bundle of lies except for those rare moments of self-realization. These lines right at the start of Timeless Echoes, ‘Each moment is precious, we try to cage it within our heart, where it perches in perfect rampart, embalmed by memories,’ reveal how this book is a healer, promising to lay bare the ills of the soul as it soothes, cleanses, and nurtures; instilling in us a will to learn and live without fear, and a will to not hurt others: ‘Why can’t our hearts feel the hurt we hurl at others?’
Balroop’s new book is a steadfast repudiation of those ills that we painfully hide under the covers of our flesh to present the polished exterior as truth. This magnetic collection of poems highlights our precious human lives with all their varied emotions and imposing relations: the lives often blinded by the strictures of the self-made duplicity, an excessively common phenomenon. ‘Listen to your heart, my friend. It knows you well,’ she writes.
I treasure these ‘forgetting fragile facets of love, facade of fading memories, echoes of dwindling love, is all I have now, yet love echoes refuse to subside’ believing that love echoes are soul-launched signals, ready to hug our pretenses to forge a divine assimilation because the struggle has always been with the self that we excommunicate to build up a wall, which obscures the travails plaguing the core. And finding a path to the core is the cure since there’s no villainy in the soul.
As Balroop proclaims ‘love is such a strange emotion, it gives less, it claims more…the facade of love is so delusive,’ I concur how our infirmities require urgent banishment, more pressing now than ever. And once I’ve made peace with the self, ‘the dark corridors are like meadows, they glow with my presence.’ Yes, without an iota of my own falsehoods plaguing me.
Mahesh Nair
About Balroop Singh
Author bio
Balroop Singh, a former teacher and an educationalist always had a passion for writing. She is a poet, a creative non-fiction writer, a relaxed blogger and a doting grandma. She writes about people, emotions and relationships. Her poetry highlights the fact that happiness is not a destination but a chasm to bury agony, anguish, grief, distress and move on! No sea of solitude is so deep that it can drown us. Sometimes aspirations are trampled upon, the boulders of exploitation and discrimination may block your path but those who tread on undeterred are always successful.
When turbulences hit, when shadows of life darken, when they come like unseen robbers, with muffled exterior, when they threaten to shatter your dreams, it is better to break free rather than get sucked by the vortex of emotions.
A self-published author, she is the poet of Sublime Shadows of Life and Emerging From Shadows, both widely acclaimed poetry books. She has also written When Success Eludes, Emotional Truths Of Relationships Read FREE with Kindle Unlimited and Allow Yourself to be a Better Person.
Balroop Singh has always lived through her heart. She is a great nature lover; she loves to watch birds flying home. The sunsets allure her with their varied hues that they lend to the sky. She can spend endless hours listening to the rustling leaves and the sound of waterfalls. The moonlight streaming through her garden, the flowers, the meadows, the butterflies cast a spell on her. She lives in San Ramon, California.
Connect with Balroop Singh
You can visit her blog at: http://balroop2013.wordpress.com
Connecting links: https://twitter.com/BalroopShado
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Emotional-Shadows/151387075057971
https://plus.google.com/u/0/+BalroopSinghsrao/posts
https://www.pinterest.com/balroops/
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7340810.Balroop_Singh
https://www.amazon.com/Balroop-Singh/e/B00N5QLW8U/ref=ntt_dp_epwbk_0
Excerpt
Moments That Echo
Each moment is precious
We try to cage it within our heart
Where it perches in perfect rampart
Embalmed by memories!
Moments of love croon around us
Offering eternal passion that blinds
Drowning in the deluge of delusion
Validating ephemeral enchantment!
Moments of joy glisten on the sand of time
Fleeting away faster than dappling light
Peeping through the corridors of life
At the mercy of others’ delight!
Woeful moments smile through strife
Each one stretching far and wide
Into every nerve and sinew
Sneering at our impertinent divide!
Each moment an experience in itself
We grow in its glow to wend and win
Divesting the ignorance of our thoughts
Solace echoing within!
Purchase Timeless Echoes
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Thank you for visiting us, Balroop, to talk about your new poetry book and share one of your lovely poems.
Robbie
A truly lovely poem as a sample there 😃
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Thanks Ritu.
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You’re welcome Balroop 😊
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It is beautiful, Ritu.
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Thank you Robbie for giving a place of honour to my new poetry book at your blog. I am thrilled to share it. Stay blessed!
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It is my pleasure, Balroop.
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Awesome and excellent post, Robbie. I have no words to say. U have put your heart and soul in reviewing this beautiful lady, Balroop. Her poem was breathtaking. Thanks for the share. Will definitely go and read her books on Amazon.
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Thank you dear friend, I am sure you would like my poetry. 🙂
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Yes absolutely u r too good Balroop. Welcome dear.
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Thank you!
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Welcome
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I am delighted that you enjoyed this post, Kamal. Thanks for reading and commenting.
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Welcome dear Robbie and u have done a fantastic job.
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Thank you so much for the share. Stay blessed!
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You are welcome. Best – Kevin
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Thank you for sharing, Kevin.
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You are welcome, Robbie – Kevin
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Great post and a fantastic poem. Thanks, Robbie and good luck to Balroop.
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Thanks Olga, I am glad you like my poem.
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I am glad you enjoyed the post, Olga.
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Another amazing review and poem by Balroop. May your book fly off the shelves!
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Thanks Darlene, your wishes are appreciated! 🙂
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She does write beautiful poems, Darlene.
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Thank you for sharing Robbie. Balroop has such a beautiful writing style. 🌼
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Thank you Brigid! I am feeling blessed.
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She does have a delightful writing style, Brigid. Thanks for visiting.
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Wow. Great share. Celebrating Balroop’s every success. ❤
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Thanks Annette.
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Thank you, Annette.
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Wow! A wonderful and moving poem by Balroop and thank you so much for sharing with us today. I’ve read it many times and there are so many elements within it that I can identify with. A lovely introduction to her latest book, Robbie …
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I am really pleased you enjoyed this poem, Annika, I did too.
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I am delighted to note that you could identify with this poem, that is why I love this genre. Poetry says something to everybody in each poem. Many of my poems talk like that. Thanks Annika. Stay blessed!
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Reblogged this on DSM Publications and commented:
Check out this review of the new poetry book, Timeless Echoes, by Balroop Singh, as featured on Robbie’s Inspiration blog.
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Thank you for sharing, Don.
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You’re welcome.
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Thanks for sharing this post Don, I appreciate it. 🙂
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You’re welcome.
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Just finished it. Review coming–teaser: It’s great.
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Wonderful, Jacqui, I look forward to reading your review.
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Thank you Jacqui, looking forward to your review.
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Great intro post for Balroop and Timeless Echoes! 🙂 xo
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I am glad you liked it Bette. Thanks! 🙂
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Thank you, Bette.
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Robbie, you have done such a warm and elegant presentation of Balroop’s poetry book, a delight.
Balroop, I enjoyed reading your poem about memories. Yes, many are maybe embalmed. Both the good and bad.
I did like this : ” Where it perches in perfect rampart
Embalmed by memories! ”
Wishing you wonderful success.
Miriam
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Many thanks for your kind words Miriam. I am so happy that the poem I have shared has been liked by everybody. Stay blessed!
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Thank you, Miriam, for your lovely comment. I am delighted that you enjoyed Balroop’s poem.
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Lovely poem. All the best to Balroop for her new poetry book. 🙂
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Thank you Marje!
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Thank you, Marje.
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🙂
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Huge congrats again to Balroop! 🙂
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Thanks Deb…I am almost immersed in good wishes. 🙂
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As you should be. 🙂
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Thank you, Debby.
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Thank you for sharing, Traci.
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You’re welcome, Robbie!
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So lovely to see Balroop over here with her new book, Robbie. Beautiful poem. I wish her the best of luck! ❤
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Thank you, Diana. Balroop does write lovely poetry.
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Lovely example of Balroop’s poetry Robbie.. hugs
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Thank you, Sally. Balroop does write beautifully.
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I agree Robbie..hugs xxx
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“half of what we say are lies”… But, what if THAT is the lie?? 🤥🤤
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Well, I think it works on the law of averages. Some people hardly ever lie and some people lie all the time. I suppose you have to assess the other people in your life and work it out.
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