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Can poetry be memories from a previous life?

Friends is the fifth book in the series Memories from another Lifetime.

Several of the poems in Friends were written at a turbulent time in Vanita’s life, and they present a highly idealised and youthful expression of friendship. Yet they also witness the complex and often conflicting emotions in a friendship – love, devotion, hurt, insecurity, and even jealousy.

Memories from another Lifetime is a collection of very personal and hauntingly beautiful poems about love, desire, friendship, heartbreak, betrayal, hurt, and denial. They go to the core of raw and visceral emotions, perhaps from another lifetime. A powerful and moving experience.

‘I am the window
Through which sunshine
Can enter
The dark room of your Life –
If only you will hold
My outstretched hand of friendship
And lift the curtains
Of your mind.’

From ‘The Saviour’, Vanita Shukla Hork, 1983

My Review:

Mary Schmidt

5.0 out of 5 stars Another winner

Reviewed in the United States on January 15, 2026

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This is yet again another winner of poetry by Ms Hork. How could poems about friendship not be touching to one’s heart? For in the heart, the words settle, whether sadness of a great friend loss, or happiness derived from a dear one. Friends bring out both preferred and negative qualities and this book of poems does that expertly.