🩸Book Review🩸

🩸Book Review🩸

Book:-Please Don't Tell Me To Calm Down 

Author:-@writeralpa_arora 

Genre:-#poetry 

You will miss me 

when I'm gone.

Semblance of a dream,

coated in blue sky feathers.

A halt, a step below,

into the dark dungeon cave,

leading to the cornflour sea.

The road into the deep forest.

Hesitation for loneliness,

then the fireflies singing 

like Chinese lanterns,

escaping from the ladder trees.....

Alpa Arora’s Please Don’t Tell Me To Calm Down is a deeply evocative poetry collection that traverses the emotional terrain of human suffering, healing, and spiritual awakening through a vivid, elemental lens. Drawing on the symbolic power of nature—air, water, fire, earth, and spirit—Arora constructs a poetic universe that is at once raw and redemptive.

The structure of the collection appears to follow a loose elemental framework, with each poem offering a facet of emotional intensity anchored in a particular natural force. This choice is not merely aesthetic; it reinforces the cyclical nature of pain, transformation, and growth. Much like the elements, Arora’s verses suggest that emotions are not to be controlled or silenced, but understood as intrinsic parts of the human condition.

The collection balances contrasts with striking finesse: love and solitude, yearning and surrender, desolation and healing. There’s a subtle, almost meditative rhythm to Arora’s voice—one that invites readers not to analyze the poems so much as to feel them.

Arora is particularly adept at navigating the inner landscapes of loss and spiritual rebirth. Several poems reflect what might be described as the ‘emptiness of suffering’—a void that, paradoxically, allows for a profound kind of clarity. In this sense, her work aligns with traditions of mystic and introspective poetry, though filtered through a distinctly modern lens. This duality—ancient themes couched in contemporary emotionality—gives the collection a timeless, yet immediate, appeal.

For readers who appreciate poetry that speaks directly to the soul while engaging with universal elements, Please Don't Tell Me To Calm Down is both a cathartic and contemplative read. Alpa Arora has created a collection that honours the complexities of being alive - unfiltered, unapologetic and undeniably human.

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