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Love for literature, painting, ascetic ways of living, a feeling of universal love and compassion determined Radhey Shiam's (January 1922 -April 2015) true religion for man. Danish saint Mr. Alfred Emanuel Sorensen (known as 'Sunyata') influenced him immensely he inconspicuously acknowledges. His brush carried the touch of American artist-cum-philosopher E. Brewster. Dr Satya Bhushan Verma, the father of Indian Haiku motivated him to create Haiku in its native form and it turned a lifelong passion, a kind of obsession, and so was an eminent poet of Haiku that brought him recognition. 'Song of Life' and 'The Book of Life' in English were Radhey Shiam's other publications. The present collection of poems 'Nature & I' is a fulsome tribute of his son Shri Rama Kant who edited it after the death of his revered poet father Radhey Shiam...indeed memorable it is. He visualizes the spirit of god around and nature appears as the eternal home where soul finds divine asylum even while eternal beauty fulfills 'the self', and gradually nature becomes fundamental part of life and existence. Here, he does not differentiate between 'the self and 'the nature' as all activities of natural world appear vividly before eyes and man feels divinely blessed, the artist in poet affirms. Divinity in nature speaks to 'the self' in absolute tranquility...and this celebration of nature as the essence of life strengthens faith in existence of god. Indeed, it is a new experience! p c k prem author, poet and critic, palampur, himachal

The reminiscence of poetry emanates from the inception of our age-old civilization: from oral chanting to epics writings. The essence of poetry has been imprinted in our ancient Vedic literature. Poetry inspires to unfold the sublime spiritual essence of the basic building block of creation, the living and the non-living, since time immemorial. The literature has been considered as the blueprint of social reformation. From writing an epic poem to one-word haiku ('Tundra' by Cor van den Heuvel) has been a long journey in the history of poetry writing.

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