While Sowing Dreams

Mohan Gehani’s poetry covers a wide range of life experiences, objects, penetrating observations – and, indeed, the kind of stray thoughts that might come to be magically harvested when a poet sows dreams. In this book you will encounter social satire, subtly-coloured metaphors for revolution, the quick dance between opposing perspectives of a nimble mind, all kinds of self-understanding, and awareness of the secrets of life.

Emotions are powerful – love most of all – and while things are eternally unchanging, things are ephemeral too, most of all the elusive figment of a poem that a lazy poet may lose forever! Through these short poems, some dazzling, some soothing, the reader will occasionally also stumble on references to the complicated feelings about Sindh, the lost homeland, and the attributes of its folk tales and their characters.