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The Dot & the dot's

Poems & Paintings. 100 pages, english (1978). Förlag/Edition Galerie International, Wallingatan 34, 111 24, Stockholm.
ISBN: 91-85778-00-1

 
Mitti Mitti
Punjabi sutras (1987). Navyug Publishers, K-24, Hauz Khas, New Delhi 110016, India.
 
The Dot & the dot's
Poems by Sohan Qadri. English (1988). A Writers Workshop Publication. P. Lal, 162/92 Lake Gardens, Calcutta, 700 045 India.
 
Boond samundar
Punjabi sutras (1990). Loke sahil. Amritsar. Out of print.
 
Antar Joti
Punjabi sutras (1995). Navyug Publishers, K-24, Hauz Khas, New Delhi 110016, India.
 
Aforismer

68 pages (1995). Poems in English & Danish. Ømens Forlag Denmark.
ISBN: 87-87412-83-7

 
The Seer
Released on the occasion of an exhibition at Art Konsult in New Delhi 1999. 64 pages.
 
Hun Khin
Conversations with Sohan Qadri, by Amarjit Chandan. Punjabi (2000). Navyug Publishers, K-24, Hauz Khas, New Delhi 110016, India.
ISBN: 81-7599-092-9
 
Antar Jhãti
Antar Jhãti. 2003 Punjabi Sutras, Navyng Publishers New Delhi book Review of English Poetry. Här kommer rewieven...


The Dot and The Dots is the piquant title of a slender volume of verse by Sohan Qadri, born Punjabi but now a citizen of the world settled at Copenhagen. His first love was painting, literature a second interest and hobby. The very first poem of the volume, five half-lines long (or is it short!), a dot of a poem, underlines the intent of the title.

The Line
Is the foot print
of the Dot
on the face
of space.

The volume then is a line made of similar dots, a circlet of the pearls of wisdom like the celebrated Rubaiyat, a garland of gnomic verse where a world of meaning is packed into minimal words. Each poem is a comment on life in the abstract as also a prescription of ready rules for the common man. The very essence of Buddha´s teachings gets distilled into the telegram.

"In the loss of longing
belonging gets lost
hence emancipation"

Wordly success hinders and preludes spiritual progress.

"With inward rising
All else is raised
Skies are reaced
With outward rising
All else is demeanched
Hyprocrisy is preached"

The paradox of life lies in its cyclic nature where birth and death merge into each other, where the beginning is the end.

"The seed dies
Into the first root
And the first root
to be born again"

and again.

"The feet
Following their own footprints
Retreat
To reach the source within"

He bids us however beware of dogma.

The Truth
Cast into idea
Loses its truth
The mould takes hold"

 


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