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Dreams Smell of Rain
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Writing InstructionGeneral Poetry
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ISBN10: 6038504893
ISBN13: 9786038504895
Publisher: Madarek Company for Publishing and Distributi
Published: Jan 13 2026
Pages: 126
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.30 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
ISBN13: 9786038504895
Publisher: Madarek Company for Publishing and Distributi
Published: Jan 13 2026
Pages: 126
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.30 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
Dream Smells of Rain by Ashjan Hindi is a poetry collection that explores the fragile space between memory, loss, longing, and quiet hope. Through concise, emotionally charged poems, Hindi reflects on personal and collective experiences shaped by displacement, identity, and the ache of belonging. Rain becomes a recurring symbol-suggesting renewal, sorrow, nostalgia, and the persistence of life despite absence and fracture.
The poems move fluidly between dreams and waking reality, where the past constantly seeps into the present. Love appears not as fulfillment but as yearning, often intertwined with silence and distance. The speaker's voice is intimate and restrained, allowing simple images-streets, rooms, bodies, and weather-to carry deep emotional weight. These images evoke a sense of suspended time, as if the self is always waiting, remembering, or returning.At its core, the collection meditates on the experience of exile-emotional, cultural, or physical. Home is portrayed less as a fixed place and more as a sensation, a memory, or a scent carried by rain. Language itself becomes a refuge, offering a way to name pain without resolving it. Rather than providing closure, the poems embrace ambiguity, reflecting the unfinished nature of grief and desire.Overall, Dream Smells of Rain is a quiet, lyrical work that transforms vulnerability into poetic strength. Ashjan Hindi's poems resist grand statements, choosing instead subtlety and emotional precision, inviting readers to linger in the spaces where dreams, memory, and longing gently collide.
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