‘Outbloom’ – the book is an assortment of sentiments. Explore! The aisle of poems, which surrounds different feelings and genres; describing the emotions relating love, sorrow, dreams, life and grieves.
Musafir Asmani is an Indian poet and author. He had adopted the pen name as "Musafir" in his teenage itself, which means a 'Traveler' in Arabic and persian; while the desire for writing stories and poems always remained hidden inside him as well as the notebooks that his father provided for studying. He completed his Civil Engineering in the year 2014 and worked as a Site Supervisor until when he decided to quite the job after working there halfheartedly for almost a year. However,due to the family's worsened financial condition, he started working as an A.R Executive in Medical Billing for more than two years; working night-shifts for earning money and dedicating the days towards writing stories. Meanwhile, he was again recoiled on when the company fired him suddenly in 2017, eventually this was the time when he rallied up for publishing his novel. Finally, in 2018, he published his first book named - 'Outbloom', although it constituted the poetry which he had wrote in his struggling days; except the poem titled 'Shrimati - Prabhavati' that he devoted to his grandmother, since he was appalled due to her sudden demise. His untitled novel is yet to be published and will be announced soon.
The title of the book was so enticing that ultimately I picked up this book on Kindle. It is a short read. I finished reading it in a few hours time. But the inside poems were longer, thus, I had to reread the collection. Prominently, I found that the poet wrote poems that were aiming to challenge one to rise above all, breaking all barriers. Also, it was evident that the poet isn’t happy with the world’s protocols and other societal things. I found him different yet aloof. The poem on grandmother was really great and showed how much the poet cared for her. Above all, the poet was able to capture tender emotions that can make or break an individual. The good thing is that poems are not heavy – they run like a flow in the river. Encouraging and pragmatic, this is a good collection of poems.