Danya Orlev’s “Poems Along the way Inner Way”

Internal Sun

Danya Orlev’s tranquil:

“Poems Along the way Inner Way”

A Tai Chi teacher, and Daoist, Sufi and Yogi devotee, Danya Orlev is a Northern Rivers’ poet who has released a set of beautifully-penned poems influenced from 20 years of focussing on the inner arts.

As a fan of Herman Hess’s ‘Siddhartha’, I found my way through ‘Internal Sun’ with calming, reflective pleasure. The poems are mostly short, which is nice, where the laws of poetry allow with their at times grammatically incorrect postures; refreshingly-purposefully na?ve in structure, the reader has time to stop and reflect upon what is really being communicated. I know Danya enough to say that she is a very genuine soul. Internal Sun invites you into her life, to feel her love; a shiver for her fears.

With a generous lash of devotion to her children, this book is set within four journeys:

Thy heart is calling you - I touch go through - Stillness Moving - Tree of flowers.                

  My favourite poems within Internal Sun are:

‘Before I was born’; ‘The drops found a stream’; and ‘No shadow can dance here’- with the winning title being ‘Rendezvous of tea’.

Danya whispers “If someone resonates with some of these writings, if it touches you like a snow flake or a drop of light on the skin, then this would be for an inner opening of a door, like looking at the night stars inside.”

A touch of melancholy with nurturing ease, you will find solace within Danya Orlev’s caressing empathies: ‘Internal Sun Poems Along the Inner way’… a must!