Kabhi Ke Baad Abhi

Vinod Kumar Shuklas poetry finds its unique ease in the democracy and folklore of Hindi poetry. He experiences the vast diversity of life in seemingly insignificant instances. This soft ordinariness becomes a figurative inscription of sensitivity in his poetry. Kabhi Ke Baad Abhi is a collection of Vinod Kumar Shuklas poems that bears the keen shadows of the poets extensive life experiences. Within these shadows, only what is necessary is visible, nothing more. A connoisseur of the undertones of words and their coexistence, Vinod Kumar Shuklas poems are expressed in soft tones. He says, Listen even to silence with the hope of life. Seed words like home, neighborhood, death, and birth appear like fingers etched into the works of this collection. Through many such words, the poet is captivated by the eternal simplicity of a lush life. The poet variously expresses the shared beauty of the relationship between man and nature. Even after this, who knows how much can be experienced after the comma and before the full stop. Vinod Kumar Shukla has also underlined the dignity and significance of incompleteness. Recognizing its importance, he writes, This life, filled with incompleteness, should not be considered incomplete yet, because life was lived to the fullest. This collection of poems is another dimension of the unique aura of Vinod Kumar Shuklas creativity.