MINDSCAPES VOLUME 1 is a collection of poems written by Thompson Charlie during a difficult time away from home in exile. In these poems, Thompson Charlie explores the tragedy of displacement, without any means of economic support. Homeless and dehumanized by his situation, he finds himself trapped and anchor-less in a foreign environment. The introspection reveals an honest and tortured sensibility appalled at its own abrogation and disintegration of its own personality. Mindscapes Volume 1, the first collection of poems in a trilogy, is a poignant journey of loneliness and disillusionment with a cruel political system, after his country gained independence, that persecutes and dehumanizes its own people, demoting them into outcasts; on the other hand it is over-flowing with humor, insight and philosophy, reaching out with fiery defiance and hope for freedom and peace.mindscapesreads@gmail.com