Walking In the woods
A collection of short, direct poems about transformation, resilience, and the unrealised potential each person carries.
Overview
The seed that falls becomes the tree. The caterpillar that suffers the cocoon becomes the butterfly. Devendra Awasthi's poems return to these transformations — not as clichés but as structures of lived experience, the shapes that change actually takes when you are inside it and cannot yet see the outcome.
Walking in the Woods is a collection built around the conviction that each person carries unrealised potential and that most of what defeats us is the belief that we are finished. The poems are brief and direct, closer to aphorism than to lyric complexity, and they speak to readers who are in the middle of difficulty rather than those who have reached the other side. Awasthi's stated intention — that no one in this forest is a loser — is not wishful thinking but the collection's governing argument.
These are poems for the commute, the waiting room, the moment before giving up.
"They thought problems would bind my spirits in chain, I will never be able to stand up and rise again, but I'd fallen like a seed to grow in a splendid tree indeed, Thus, I proved them wrong!!..." "I bore the pain of transmutation from caterpillar to butterfly, I was frightened of the change but something in me, asked to rely, Now, I am a colorful butterfly!!..." Devendra Awasthi's Walking in the Woods is a collection of thoughts, put in the form of poems, that rejuvenate you like the rising Sun, which sets the process of life in the forest. A forest where nobody is a loser. Read these poems to enliven the spirit of life. "Each individual has the potential and should be able to realise his best, and not fritter it away in meaningless pursuits," -Devendra Awasthi
