Poetry is the recollection of metaphors in retrospect, when memories, colours, emotions and entities rush back to stalk the soul in words, sighing, ‘if only....’ When the Soul Sighs, a nostalgic collection of 35 poems pans across a wide vista of emotional landscapes, philosophies and medleys of memories swinging in wide arcs across continents – a stirring of the soul that pines to grasp what slips like elusive mist on the blue hills, yonder. The poems are like the strains of old melodies that tug, hurt, inspire and leave their scent - lingering, long after. A must-read!