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‘One Voice, Three Streams and a Confluence’, poems in English, Hindi and Malayalam written by Jacintha, will be released by Forest Minister K B Ganesh Kumar at Press Club Hall here on August 24.
Eminent writer G N Panicker, A K Sudharma, and Sulochana Rammohan will receive the first copies. Oleena A G will introduce the book.
K Muraleedharan Nair, V S Ajith and Aravind, who inspired the author, will be honoured on the occasion.
The poems drive home the unbearable sense of loneliness you feel in a world of selfish and self-centred relatives around you and yet, the lonely, the sidelined devotes her (his) time to serve others, as Christ, who didn’t commit any sins, suffered for the sin of others.
Some of the poems sound autobiographical, like ‘The passion of a follower’, in which she expresses her desire to become another Veronica, one who makes friends with an intruder Frog, an innocent and charming village girl who sits at her window and sings solo, rejecting the tempters, one who changes one’s ‘quarters’ into a beautiful garden.
In the poem ‘My oasis, a mere mirage’, the poet feels rather blind, surrounded by unpalatable persons, things and events, walks on and on across the wearisome desert-land, thinking or hoping that an oasis - her own oasis - is within sight. But to her great shock, she painfully realises it is a mere mirage, as soon as she reaches the spot which she thought an oasis.
In her Malayalam poems also, Jacintha has dealt with social problems - an exhortation to the people not to waste their life by mutual bickering and fights, a mother is requested not to become a Poothana, Shoorpanaka, Mandhara, or Vasavadatha.
She pictures a woman who is earth-like and an embodiment of patience, the desire not to be disheartened by the ups and downs of life, especially the seamy sides of life.
Jacintha, in her eminently readable and unique pieces, has poetically expressed her deep-felt emotions and disturbing thoughts as a woman, as a committed social activist, and a sensitive writer.
Her varied life experiences have added much to the variety and depth of her poems, ever holding fast to heart the sweetness of Christian compassion.
The poems contain themes of divine and human values reflecting the yearnings of a journeying soul.
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