Moments of fragrant love that stand frozen in time, of dreams that dare not unfold, of passion that fleets by, of erratic joy that we meet at the crossroads of life; butterflies of time that add color to our dark moments to scare the demons away – I have gathered all of them in this book. Some of them whisper softly to create a magical aura while spring of life sings with them, trying to wipe … silent tears. Mother Nature steps in with all her grandeur to breath quiet messages of tranquility.
Each poem would soothe your emotions with élan and add a dash of color to your life. Life – that doesn’t halt for your sad moments; it just floats by. You just need to dive in to soak in myriads of moments to discover how they could ignite positive tones. All the poems in this collection are imaginary but inspired from people around me, some of whom chose to share their frustrations and tremors with me. My imaginative muse transformed them into poetry.
Memories and moments merge here
Today when I return to share
The glow of rainbows,
Embers of emotional entreaties
And smoldering debris.
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A rich tapestry of emotion guides the reader through first love through the pain of loss and poignant memories in Moments We Love by Balroop Singh.
The words flow like a warm breeze, inspiring us to think about the moments that change our lives.
My Favorite Lines
From Rift
We lie trapped in darkness In the shadows of stillness
Butterflies of hope are fluttering
With tears in silent eyes.
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From Rooted in Love
Love is not just growing together
It is weathering storms
Smiling through gales
Reaching out to each other
Making memories
That could be cherished.
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From I Feel Most Like Me
I feel most like me
When random memories make me smile When rain drains away emotional dust That gathers unawares
When my grandson hugs me tight
And whispers, “I love you.”
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A refreshing look at life and love. I give Moments We Love 5 lovely kisses!
Earlier this year, I read two books by Balroop Singh, and it prompted me to pick up more of her sage advice, delightful imagery, and intelligent wordsmithing (yes, I think I’m making up new words again). In her latest book release, Moments We Love, Ms. Singh shares dozens of moments in a person’s life that conjure the intense emotions we feel when surrounded my loved ones, nature, and humility. At its core, the poetry collection breathes a vibrancy into life that makes just sitting around and absorbing the beauty around us even more special.
The collection is divided into three sections: (1) Moments of Love, (2) Moments of Harmony, and (3) Moments that make Life. Love comes in many forms, and whether her words share the subtle yet powerful moment of first love or the yearning loss later in life, it will make you feel something strong and memorable. Near the end, in one titled ‘Remember Me?,’ I love a line that leaves us wondering about our purpose:
“I am the drop of nectar
You chose to mix
In the concoction called life.”
Wonderful words… but when the section ends, and we see a dedication to her grandchildren, we feel the pangs of our heart stretched far more thin than we thought. It’s a perfect lead-in to the next section, which for me focuses on seasonal changes and natural elements. I never would have thought about what spring recalls of winter, or how the seasons lament the change from one to another. Such lovely imagery and use of vocabulary to capture clear and distinct moments of emotion in a world that is different than our mortal being and existence.
My favorite selection contains a play on words, of sorts, for me. In ‘Stuck at Sunset,’ the poem ends with the speaker “Stuck at Freeway.” Could this me a metaphor for the freeway of life? Or traffic on a highway that frustrates us? I like its duality, and I’m sure we will all reflect differently on it, based on personal experience.
Ultimately, each poem within a section almost feels like a crowd of people chanting, searching for something, and discovering meaning by asking questions and summoning answers. It’s lyrical and pretty. It’s been a while since I dove deep into poetry, and it’s not something I can do often, as words mean so much to me and would leave me constantly in my own head. This is the kind of collection I would like to read again while sitting on a beach or mountaintop, at a lake or in a storm, contemplating how the seasons and nature affect us each and every day.
Of course, the final poem, ‘The Last Smile,’ leaves us with much to visualize and ponder. I enjoyed Ms. Singh’s latest collection and recommend it for all poetry lovers and those who want to connect with the beauty of the world around and within us.
Last year I read Sublime Shadows of Life by Balroop Singh and loved it. It delighted me to read Moments We Love by the same author. I enjoyed Singh’s poetry style. The poetry in this book depicted deep emotions, sensitive to human relationships, and appreciation of nature. It reflected the vivid imagination from the author’s personal experience and her observation of the surrounding circumstances.
The poetry collection is divided into three sections. Moments of Love in section one included poems of the passionate and magical feeling of young lovers, the lovers drifting apart, and turning against each other, and the return of love brought above by cuddling of the grandchildren. Moments of Harmony in section two included poems about nature and seasons. Moments that make Life in section three included poems about buried dreams, moment of tranquility, moment in waiting, moment of deceit, moment of waiting, and moment of new beginning.
Section three ended with the poems When I Go and The Last Smile as the author’s thoughts of the transience of life.
When I Go
Don’t grieve over me when I go
I would be around you
In your laughter, in your mirth
In your reveries, in your recluse
I would live in your thoughts
My words would flutter merrily
To remind you
How transient is life!
My smiles would gleam
In the flowers of your garden
In the soft sounds of breeze
That would touch the trees
My memories would linger
Around you when you
Watch the clouds
And light that shimmers through
Look at the birds flying home
Let them calm you
With the thought –
Detachment is disconcerting
But true.
The Last Smile
This shady grove – my resting place
Lush green leaves – my lullabies
Fragrance of roses soothe me
Songs of nightingale regale me
But I can hear the sobbing too,
The moaning, the entreaties
Day after day he comes
To wake me up
To remind me of promises
Of eternal love
I yearn to break free
To rise and smile, one last time
To see the orange glow
Setting the clouds on fire
Many hues dance in between
As sun’s last smile of the day fades.
I highly recommend this book and other books by Balroop Singh to the poetry lovers.
When a book starts like this:
“Moments of fragrant love that stand frozen in time, of dreams that dare not unfold, of passion that fleets by, of erratic joy that we meet at the crossroads of life; butterflies of time that add color to our dark moments to scare the demons away”
…you know you’re in for a treat. And I was. In Balroop Singh’s third book of poetry, Moments We Love (2019), she focuses this time on one of the most misunderstood but impactful of all emotions–love. Collections include:
Moments of Love
Moments of Harmony
Moments That Make Life
There are so many poems in this collection that resonated with me, but let’s start with First Love. Who doesn’t turn into an emotional basket case trying to survive first love? Balroop sums it up like this:
“First love is like
A cascading creek
Eager to rush”
When it all ends, there’s the sadness of drifting apart:
“Let’s meet one more time
Before we drift apart
I want to re-live those moments
Of promising eternal love.”
And then there’s everything in between. Anyone who has been in love, wishes they had been, or doesn’t understand it, here’s your book. Enjoy.
This is the first book of poetry I’ve read by Balroop Singh and it’s well deserving of five stars. Each poem was amazing and it would be difficult to pick my favorite from the collection, but I especially loved the ones she dedicated to her grandchildren. Balroop has a unique style of writing and her passion for life, love, and harmony flowed smoothly into her words.
MOMENTS WE LOVE by Balroop Singh contains poems in three distinct sections.
Section 1 contains 31 poems based on “Moments of Love.” The imagery here includes feelings toward our first loves, how that loves lingers, what questions love brings, and much more.
Section 2 poems, 13 in all, share the theme of “Moments of Harmony.” Word arrangements here provoke thoughts of gently splashing waterfalls, snowy slopes, green shady trees, rustling leaves, tall redwood trees, and other peaceful things brought to us by Mother Nature.
Section 3 contains 26 poems revolving around “Moments that make Life.” These verses refer to universal concepts of our wishes for ourselves and those we love, as well as our hopes, dreams, and fears.
While I haven’t read much poetry, I found the construction of Singh’s poems interesting and soothing. The stanzas are structured. Some of her word arrangements have rhyme and meter, but most are instead freeform and lyrical.
One for the home library!
Balroop Singh’s latest book of poetry, Moments We Love, is absolutely wonderful. Her best book to date, I thoroughly enjoyed this collection of poems. Balroop has her own unique style of writing and yet, each poem was very different from the one before, providing a lovely variety of emotion. As the title claims, it is about love but it is not simply about romantic love. Some of her poems are open to interpretation but many are definitively about nature, for example. Ms. Singh also shows an unexpected dark side to her poetry, surprising the reader in a challenging way.
I will return to this collection for comfort and for contemplation of the moments I love.
This is a thoughtful collection that shows life through potent images. There are three sections Love, Harmony, and Life, but the essence of existence connects it all. I was drawn to the sweet poetry dedicated to Ms. Singh’s grandchildren, and “Redwoods” was a favorite, but I fully enjoyed the beautiful words throughout the book. I love how nature is mixed into the poems and felt like I was sitting next to Ms. Singh watching the sunset with her. There is a surreal quality to “Moments We Love” that shows another way of looking at things. I highly recommend this collection if you are a fan of poetry.
I find reading poetry extremely relaxing. It’s not something I read frequently, but when I do, I enjoy the moods verse conjures. Balroop Singh weaves words like a tapestry. In Moments We Love she touches on multiple aspects of love, the people we love, and events which shape our lives. Divided into three sections: Moments of Love, Moments of Harmony, and Moments that Make Life, each segment is supported by poems matching the theme.
Each reader will find verses that resonate with them. Plenty stood out for me but my two favorites have to be Do You Remember? and Spring Memories.
From Do You Remember:
Do you remember the days?
When we played with clouds,
Rolled in colors,
Wore them around
Drenched and smiled
When we splayed colors at each other.
The imagery throughout easily transports the reader to the setting or moment in time the author conjures. Some are filled with whimsy and wonder, others with melancholy, but all are beautifully rendered.
Balroop Singh has released a new poetry collection, and that’s an event that’s worth the attention of contemporary poetry lovers. Ms. Singh has a unique style, one I can appreciate as a short story writer. Her work is generally free verse, unrhymed, resulting in an effect that manages to achieve denseness, with no wasted words, and at the same time is accessible to the average reader. No obscure allusions will slow the reader down or make them scratch their heads. You don’t have to understand what happened at Thermopylae to “get” her work.
The other hallmark of her poems I’ve noticed is that the focus is largely on the interior life. She includes descriptions of the exterior world, of course, but they mostly serve to illuminate the emotional state of the poet, and by extension, the reader. My favorite poem in the collection is Moments that Glow. I’m going to reproduce it here in its entirety since it’s only three stanzas long:
“Blissful moments of togetherness,
Soft reminders of love,
Add glow to the setting sun
When we walk toward horizon
Each moment magnifies our ecstasy,
Each moment a new dream,
Wafts around me
Mingles with your breath
Your breath brightens my passion,
Redefines my love,
I want to clasp these moments
To never let go.”
If this poem appeals, then you will likely appreciate the rest of her work.
Moments of poetry you will love, for all the moments of life
Sectioned into three to provide the reader with Moments of Love, Moments of Harmony and Moments that make Life, “Moments We Love” will give you plenty of inspiring words of poetry to enjoy whatever your mood and moment in life.
After adding this second volume of poetry from Singh to my collection, I wondered which came first. I was not surprised that Moments We Love was published after Timeless Echoes, and felt I had witnessed growth in the writings of the poet (not that I profess to be an expert).
Given my own ‘moment’ in life right now, I was not surprised to find myself favouring poems from the last section the most. Although Do you Remember? and Now I understand you! were enjoyable from the earlier sections, I connected more with Wishes, My Muse Speaks… Fortitude, I Rise Today, New Beginnings and Don’t Dwell On It! Really? all from the last.
Singh’s poetry, even on more challenging subjects, will leave you with a sense of peace and tranquillity. I recommend “Moments We Love” to all poetry lovers.
Poignant is the best word I can use to describe this author’s writing. She writes evocatively about the feelings we lock up inside. Some we set free. Some we don’t. Her verses on nature are delicate and precise enough to feel the warmth of the sun or a breeze teasing your face. If you enjoy poetry or just need to unwind, I highly recommend this author and her writing.