Which book you had read first and what impact did it make on you?
I can’t remember vividly the first book I have read since
I was young since there are plenty of them but one book that I have read when I entered adulthood was “The Road Less Traveled” by M.Scott Peck. It dealt mainly on life, it’s complexities and how people’s behaviours affect their relationships with other people. The book made me realize many valuable things in life and the explanations as to why we behave in certain circumstances.It is a psychology book so it generally focused on human behavior that helped me deal with my own perception of life and love.
If you ever get a chance to have a ride on heaven or to become the owner of world’s biggest library, what would you choose and why?
I would choose a ride to heaven definitely. Maybe I can get to see my late Dad there and have a chat with him, tell things that I wasn’t able to tell him while he was still alive on earth. A trip to heaven is far greater than having the world’s biggest library.
Who according to you is the King of modern poetry and why?
I love the works of Emily Dickinson so I may say she is the Queen of modern poetry for me. Her pieces are unconventional, expresses her pent-up emotions living a solitary life within the confines of her own room. She has her own unique poetic style and is considered as one of the major english-language poets of the modernist movement.
At what age you had written your first poem and how did it comes to you?
My poetic inclination began during my grade school days at the tender age of 10. It all seemed so natural when it first dawned on me that I can compose simple poems that time. I simply wrote down my thoughts in a notebook, at first they were just simple rhyming verses which eventually lead to free flowing verses or free style. Ever since I was young, writing has been my passion and I did believe that I was destined to be a wordsmith.
Any particular place or time you think is suitable for you to give wings to your thoughts?
There is no definite time of the day or night when my creativity freely flows and gains a life on its own. If I got enough inspiration to compose poetry, it doesn’t matter if it’s at early dawn or at the wee hours of the night. I can even write an article amidst a noisy mall full of people so there’s no particular place wherein I can readily write something though most of the time, I write in my own sanctuary- my room.
Is there any common/unique thing in your collection that you think can attract readers?
My constant readers always tell me that they can relate very well with my pieces since they can see themselves in the “characters” of my poems and like what I often answer in other feature interviews about me, James Joyce style of “stream of consciousness” is one of my influences but I do have my own writer’s style. I refrain from using highfalutin terms so as not to deliver a very complicated piece for I want my readers to readily understand and appreciate my works. To be able to touch their lives in my own little way through my writings, that is my ultimate goal as a writer/poet.
What would be your next venture?
I always ask myself if I do can write a novel though it will take some time to finish such kind of book. If time and destiny permits, I would love to write a sci-fi novel for I want my book to be not just an ordinary one. I want the book to be mystical, magical but can leave a lasting impression and can even transform the lives of my readers. Perhaps, a horror novel also for I have always adored The Master of Terror, Stephen King’s masterpieces. The only difference is that King can write superb, horror pieces for he gains inspiration from his own fear or terror of ghosts and other creatures of the night. He can’t even sleep without the lights on. In my case, I am not afraid of dark creatures and I can sleep with the lights off.
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Interviewed by Shweta Kesari