Book Review by #LITEROMA :: "Lady in Red" by Dr. Shankar Kashyap

** Thanks to the author for gifting us a review copy of the book.**

** Thanks to our reviewer Chitranshu Mandhar for reviewing the book on behalf of #Literoma. **

Genre: Romance
Category: Poetry
Language: English
Count: 45 poems

Throughout the world, in all cultures, the colour RED is associated with joy, life, romance, love, fire, lust, desire, passion, seduction, energy, danger, strength, valour and sacrifice. The book LADY IN RED, which is collection of 45 love poems, is filled with all these emotions that a human enjoys in his lifetime. The book is amalgamation of different styles of poetry like villanelle, ode, ballads, acrostics, triolet, sonnets etc originated in different parts of worlds. There are several poems in the form of ghazals and rubaiyat which are Persian form of poetry; surprisingly I didn’t know that one can write ghazals in English language too.

The poet, Shankar Kashyap, has exquisitely described the beauty of a muse and artist’s feelings towards her:

"Two love birds watching us, jealous
As we cuddled and kissed under the oak tree."

His vivid imagination and thoughtful play with words and nature gives sweet and serene texture to the poems:

"The moon tries to hide behind the dark clouds, cannot compete
With unparalleled beauty of the dusky eyed maiden of the dale."

The poems are written from the vantage point from where a person can describe beauty and his feelings for the muse. Most of the poems are breezy and vivacious bustled with tenderness but in poems like “My Girl” and “My Soulmate” one can find traces of heartache, agony and grief:

"I used to drink the wine off her lips,
 take me to heaven.

I drink wine from a jar now; I have lost
 my soulmate.

I used to drink wine to lift my spirits up to see her
The wine dulls the mind and the pain;

I have lost my soulmate."

No doubt the poems are beautifully written but few verses are repeated in couple of poems; however, it does not take away the beauty of this book.

Overall rating: 4*/5*

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