Restless Lives

by Harish Bhat

The modern age is characterized by speed, impersonality, and absurdity. It is easy to get caught up in the rush and forget the small, everyday things that string together to build the everyday.

Restless Lives offers an oasis of quiet contemplation. In this beautiful poetry collection, author Harish Bhat contemplates various aspects that make up daily life. At times pleasing, at others disturbing, the lines within these pages promise to give pause, inspire and stir emotion.

This is Harish Bhat as you have never seen him before.

140 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 20, 2023

Reviews

[KrisBookishLife · Rating 5 out of 5]

Restless Lives is a collection of poems on a variety of topics and themes. From bright beauty to shadowed darkness, the verses paint pictures of life in all its forms. These poems compel you to think, to take a moment to reflect and understand. I’ve found it a great way to break the monotony by randomly picking up a poem and reading it in the middle of the day!

One of my favourites from the book is An Untouched Land.

Stars are born to rule the skies
Bright and far from fireflies
Untouched, pristine, everyday sought Every known yet unknown spot.
Immortal burns the untouched heart
Always pining, always apart.

Waves are restless manes that dance So far from where the chalice stands
The same yet new in every way Formless, endless every day.
So beautiful stays the unheld hand A passion, dream, a promised land.

[Siddhi Palande · Rating 4 out of 5]

Restless Lives by Harish Bhat succinctly and skillfully depicts the unseen, painful and sometimes alluring shades of life.

This short read is a collection of over 70 poetries that have risen out of the darkest recesses of the poet's mind. To put it in poet's own words, he says, "There is one binding thread that runs through all these lives - restlessness. My mind tosses and turns for hours at a stretch, refusing to rest. Throughout all these restless lives, poetry has helped me express thoughts whose existence I had not even sensed earlier."

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[Archana Datta · Rating 2 out of 5]

Although the poet has expressed very deep thoughts, sometimes the imagery used seems to be very out of context to the subject of the poems. Over all, it's meant only for a niche audience that can interpret it the way the poet wanted probably wanted.