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    Colours of India
    Colours of India
    Colours of India
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    Colours of India

    By Candice James

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    Colours of India, by renowned Canadian poet , Candice James, is a collection of poems on the extraordinary diversity of India in matters of land & language, culture & courtesy, songs & sages, myths & myriad fables. The power packed words of each poem genuinely paint the secrets of a magical India’s saints & sages, music & manners, singers & cities, bards & brooks. All 43 poems brilliantly portray the many different shades of India from a Canadian perspective. Colours of India is an indubitable painting of words in the most spectacular of expressions about India! Candice James, with nearly a dozen poetry collections to her credit, rediscovers herself and her colours in this genuine painting by a Canadian brush exuding the many colours of a quintessential India. Candice James is more than a poet. Colours of India is “India through Candice’s Kaleidoscope” ~ Srinivas Vasudev

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSilver Bow Publishing
    Release dateMar 9, 2017
    ISBN9781927616482
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      Colours of India - Candice James

      Colours of India – Words Across the Water

      By Candice James

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      copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author

      Copyright © 2017 Silver Bow Publishing

      Cover Painting: Rainbow Forest by Candice James

      Layout/Design: Candice James

      All rights reserved including the right to reproduce or translate

      this book or any portions thereof, in any form

      ISBN 978-1-927616-48-2

      Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

      James, Candice, 1948-, author

      ISBN 978-1-927616-48-2 (e-book)

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      "In the gusty night when the rain patters on the leaves

      you will hear my whisper in your bed,

      and my laughter will flash with the lightning

      through the open window into your room."

      From Crescent Moon

      by Rabindranath Tagore

      Introduction

      Words ~ Candice James

      I do it for the sheer divine madness

      And passionate love affair I have with words.

      I don’t do it for the money.

      I do it to paint:

      A pale crepe paper yellow moon

      Shining through the river’s soul.

      A feathered blue sky of wings

      Chasing clouds as they roll.

      A whitecap wave crashing on a sandy shoreline.

      A star dusted night shedding silver flecked wine.

      A Sunkist blade of grass gleaming with dew.

      A blood red rose resting beneath the blue

      Against the stained glass windows of my soul.

      Like wild waves crashing on reef and shoal

      A brilliant imagery spills and pours

      Through a maze of majestic mahogany doors.

      Living words on walls, ceilings and floors.

      Birthing new paths of wisdom and glory

      Inspiration’s child delivers a story.

      Imagination unleashes its maze

      Onto virgin pristine paper ablaze,

      But,

      In some cases the child is a poem,

      A long lost memory calling me home.

      I

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