An Earth Full of Gratitude:
A Collection of Poems
by Ranjith Sivarman
64 Poems ~ 28 B/W Drawings ~ 72 Pages
Price: $11.00
Publisher: Resource Publications
An Imprint of Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN #: 979-8-3852-7435-2 Paperback
979-8-3852-7436-9 Hardcover
979-8-3852-7437-6 Ebook
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ABOUT THE BOOK:
An Earth Full of Gratitude does not open like a book; it opens like a heart that has learned how to wait and how being in love feels. The book opens like a benediction: This is not showy devotion it is rooted in devotion. The root–wisdom–has been shaped by both petals and thorns. Gratitude becomes the ground, a Sufi earth where the heart practices presence. Toi read these lines is to feel steadiness: even in longing, there is a sacred steadiness that keeps the ordinary world habitable.
–K Genesis (2026) excerpted from the Introduction
ADVANCE PRAISE:
“Reading An Earth Full of Gratitude by Ranjith Sivaraman is like entering a soft dusk where moonlight and incense meet–an intimacy that wants to be felt before it is named. This is a collection of poems that merges nature imagery, human emotions, and human psychology into a gorgeous tapestry of philosophy. Representing minute details of romantic intensities with a strong conviction in the truth of love, the poems register small bodily truths: waiting without agitation, noticing expression before speech, sensing emotion before it is spoken. In a world thick with facades, these pages offer a soft insistence that true love–patient, pink, demanding, forgiving–still takes root. Sivaraman’s feminine imagery–craving, moon, mist, tender lap–meets male desire–wolf, howl, hunger, strength, determination–not to reduce love to bodies, but to show how eros and eros’s restraint braid into devotion; where science maps neurotransmitters, this book maps the soul’s circuitry. This book does not explain devotion; it is devotion–an earthly, luminous practice, guide, contribution, and gratitude to love. In short, this collection is an elegy and a laboratory both’where pain and joy are braided, and the final finding is as beautiful and simple as true love.”
–K Genesis, B.Tech (IT), M.A.(Sociology) and a PG Diploma in International Law & Diplomacy
“With his poetry, Ranjith Sivaraman stands at the helm of a boat. He expertly guides us through waters of considerable depth that we might otherwise be afraid to traverse ourselves. With his confidence, with his artistry, we can put ourselves in his hands; give ourselves over to the ride. We know he is at home here. Love. Nature. Humanity. These are his lands of well-lived expertise. His poems are a tour through these waters unlike any other you have embarked upon. I invite you to read these poems as I do. Surrender to the ride. Put your guard down and listen deeply. In this way, you will float bravely into remarkable discovery.”
–Nicole Gonzalez, Professor of Social Psychology, Middlesex College
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Ranjith Sivaraman is an up-and-coming poet from Kerala, a beautiful state in India. His poems merge nature imagery, human emotions, and human psychology into a gorgeous tapestry of philosophy. Sivaraman’s English poems have been published in international literature magazine and journals across the United States and United Kingdom.
FROM THE BOOK:
THERE IS SOMEONE
by Ranjith Sivaraman
There is someone to love me too
Such a love that made me love myself
There is someone who misses me
Such a miss that I started missing myself
There is someone who craves for me
Such a craving that I started feeling the pull
There is someone who transforms me
Such a transformation that I will live forever
There is someone who weeps for me
Such a weep that I feel the burns of tears
There is someone who trusts me
Such a trust that I am proud to be human
There is someone who made me a destination
Such a destination which feels home forever
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