Lost The Art of Staying Lost Book Two by Sakshi Narula Review

"Feelings of bleak euphoria, building on a high with so much emotion conveyed in every word.  Then falling  down to earth with a realistic thud."  - My words.

Lost The Art of Staying Lost Book Two transcends all the words and expressions you have ever read in other poetry. Conveyed with so much depth and feeling there's a real sense of loss, futile love that burned with golden embers.  Then fizzled out with a break up.  Parting, suddenly, going away.  Not so much as losing someone to death, or bereavement.  Although it could well be, but more betrayal. Betrayed by love, a lover.  Building up hope,of fulfillment and promise. A risky beginning, lasting for eternity only to have it shattered into a thousand shards.  

Uns demonstrates being love sick, the body behaving and mimicking the symptoms of bodily ailments which feel akin to having all your emotions and heart ripped. Replaced with emptiness.  Watching the world from the inside out whilst others are oblivious.  Seen also in Chenab "Nerves, skin, heart tongue and bones that ached for more so bad that I had forgotten I exist.  My jaws have been in pain..."

Love comes in all shapes, love of parents, love of children, loss too.  As well as a soul mate. That one true, pure love who will have the same feelings and love for you.  Then suddenly it's gone. Was it ever real.  

Healing poem made me think of loss, the loss of losing a father, mine.  Perhaps that wasn't the intention, being about a lover; but to me it spoke of heartfelt grief when life is cheated by unexpected death.  In many ways akin to the passing of love and all the enrichment it brings to our lives.  Providing a semblance, a brief segment of closure.

Octopus asks if those we have lost feel the same pain, or are we just a distant memory, a passing phase of the moon.  Do lovers just move on, carefree?  Questions not asked by me.  Since most of us don't want to waste our time on someone we can't have.  

Sakshi Narula writes from the heart, that much is true and has the marvellous and creative ability to paint pictures with her words.  You feel you are there in the moment of each impossible heartbeat and you can't do anything to rescue yourself  the inevitable.  

Interspersed with excellent artwork by that spatters the page akin to the ink from an octopus; with the vividness of a bleeding heart and mind.  A talented poet with a natural artistry to convey anguish with every sentence. Personal experiences and growing up in India give a sense of belonging.  As shown by To Bury A Love Story. 

Take a breath for more roller coaster rides. Interspersed with written notes providing a break from the deepness of each poem and a reprieve of being a solid, continuous chunk, with drawings, mirroring hope and darkness. In ink, ink blobs maybe to decipher our own darkness and limits to overcome.

I was mesmerized and absorbed in such beautiful and eloquent sentiments that I read in one sitting.  I'm sure everytime I re-read it will spark and invoke more reactions.  I enjoyed how the poems interweave into one another with vivid pictures of being so lost, heartbroken and having everything ripped, affecting the mind, body and soul equally.  The personification of love's misfortune is immensely lifelike.

Lost The Art of Staying Lost releases 25th January Amazon 

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Doctor Who Revolution of the Daleks

The Daleks return and each time they do , they have their metallic butts kicked across the galaxy and beyond, but how gullible were they to answer a call thinking it's their own kind.  We find a Dalek remnant is stolen when transported by GCHQ and of course it had to be an inside job, as we know.  But stopping for coffee breaks, I mean get yourself a big flask.  MP Patterson (future PM) (Harriet Walter) gets Jack Robertson (Chris Noth) to make it into a high powered metal security machine, aka tin can is what I thought of.  But anyway it's all cos Britain needs security!!  Job security, security from everything really, even shoddy, bungling MPS and PM!  So year later she's elected PM (parody of the Tories right there, would-be Margaret Thatcher ha.)  As Robertson is 3D printing out Daleks to police the streets.  Which apparently was accepted by the Brits and none of these freedom loving sods kicked up a storm about freedoms being overtaken by AI, or having such eyesores on their streets.  But yeah accept it and move on!  Should've had giant, metal spiders instead, that'd really get the masses showing their arachnophobia.  Wait been there, though not metallic! 

Remember during the first lockdown, how there was a video tweet on Twitter where a lone Dalek patrolled the street, wonder who saw that and thought this would be a good idea, part premise for a Doctor Who ep.  Best moment had to be PM being exterminated, short lived prime ministership!! Ha.  If only art mimicked real life, or rather vice versa, wouldn't life be grand.

Scientist Leo (Nathan Stewart-Jarrett) reveals to Robertson how he was working on something else after he found a smidgen of organic matter and he cloned it.  Cue Dalek conscious and Robertson thinks it's ugly, funny that he didn't think the spiders were revolting!  Anyhoo he wants it incinerated and Leo's loathe not do it but opens the cage instead of just throwing the entire thing into the fire.  Dalek takes him over and he is taken away to Osaka, Japan where the Dalek had the intelligence to set up a factory mass producing Daleks, all funded by Robertson, funny this got past him and his accounts department!!  

Yaz (Mandip Gill) is firmly of the belief that the Doctor (Jodi Whittaker) is out there somewhere and she's left clues for them to find her.  Ryan (Tosin Cole) and Graham (Bradley Walsh) can't believe she's been doing all this and sleeping in the TARDIS too.  Thinking they should find a way of taking it and finding her.  As we see the Doctor imprisoned on the the Rock, ha, the prison planet rock.  In the same old groundhog day routine where she sees a Weeping Angel caged, Bonnie and Clyde and the P'ting too.  As she tells him he can't eat the cage cos she's tried, not surprised with the dry, yuk stuff she was being fed.  Funny the Weeping Angel being there, what crime did it commit, cos weren't they all evil anyway.  This one was imprisoned.  Miss those Angels! 

Eventually Capt Jack (John Barrowman) comes along to rescue her, as her routine is disrupted by his new face.  He has a device which will form a bubble (if only we could really use these) which will break through the walls, where he takes her away with his Vortex bracelet.  She's been there 19 years, but Earth time is 10 months.  As she thanks him and it took him committing several crimes to end up in the prison.  She returns to the TARDIS and is eager to see her fam again, who are following leads on Robertson and they think they can get into his office if only they had some of the Doctor's psychic paper.  As Yaz hears the TARDIS in Graham's living room.  She would!  She'll stick with the Doctor through thick and thin as she pushes her back instead of hugging her.  Which Jack notices.

They tell her about Robertson and the Dalek so she has to act to save humanity again.  Arriving at Robertson's office she tells him about the Daleks and how evil they are.  He doesn't know what she's talking about since the Daleks are AI and are robotic.  She takes Robertson back to the TARDIS as they hunt for the Dalek and gets them to Japan.  Where Jack takes Yaz who volunteers to go with him.  As they arrive he tells her he noticed her reaction to the Doctor and also he tells her how he's immortal, the Doctor having something to do with that.  Arriving by TARDIS gives the Doctor time to have a last yarn with Ryan and how she loves beanies too; reminding him of the yellow one he was wearing when they met and she knew he was someone worth getting to know.  Ryan telling her he's not the same person anymore.  As the Doctor isn't either, since she thought she was from Gallifray and how everything she thought she knew wasn't really her life.  

Jack and Yaz find the Daleks and Yaz wants to take a sample of the fluid the Daleks are suspended in.  As they are attacked by two crawling out of their case.  As the Doctor arrives, they find the fluid to be human, the workers from the plant.  Heading back to the TARDIS the Doctor has an idea to signal the Dalek fleet disguised as another Dalek message from the new ones and they arrive in San Francisco, where she watches them and the AI Daleks confront them.  The originals won't accept them as they're not pure as they detect humans.  However the AI argues they can become pure.  Destroying them, Robertson wants to be on their side betraying their humanity and blabbing that the Doctor sent the signal.  As they take him away to their leader, Graham, Ryan and Jack transport onto the Mother ship to plant explosives.  Also having to rescue Robertson.  The Doctor appears to them and they enter the TARDIS under the pretence of ridding the Doctor once and for all, but she's tricked them and the second TARDIS is crushed and sent to a place far, far away.  Robertson tells the Doctor he didn't betray her but was a decoy to help her.  

Ryan decides he wants to stay on earth and hep the planet.  Graham also wants to stay with him and she gives them psychic paper to help.  Yaz would want to stay with her and the Doctor thinks she should go back an hour before and then land so they can all be together.  She should've been here and not missed them for 10 months.  Ryan practices bike riding again as they see grandmother/wife, Grace (Sharon D Clarke).  Falling off his bike again, they hear about a factory in Korea when the workers refuse to attend after witnessing unusual events.

Also Rose was mentioned by Jack, some sort of foreshadowing as he tells her she's in a parallel world.  Jack also mentions the Cybermen and the Doctor said she did give them the Cyberium but she handled them.  The Doctor Who foes having their own theme tune.  The Daleks had a menacing one and the Cybermen had one I used to say sounded a bit Carry On Screaming when they used to show the monsters, Oddbod and Oddbod Jnr.  Ha.   

Robertson talking about knowing what's required for policing, spoken by Det Mikey Logan, Law and Order.  Again there's mention his being a hero on Newsnight and his run for President which he doesn't talk about.  SO after betraying the Doctor he comes through with flying colours in his own selfish interests.  Two Jacks in the same ep, one truly heroic and the other own looking for his own heroic, selfish glory.  Though Chris Noth was better this time round than the spider ep.  As he was more abhorrently representative of politicians currently on both sides of the Pond!  Sorry to see the pair go but Graham had some of the best lines in the series.  Still waiting for an explanation of the Doctor's past! 

Ghost Adventures "The Comedy Store"

The Comedy Store investigated as the location where comedians have been haunted.  *William Wilkerson opened Ciro's, a club with help from Bugsy Siegel in 1940.  Becoming the Comedy Store in 1972.  Jay Mohr tells of how he felt a presence in the main hall.  He realized no one was laughing and were 'frozen' and he told the ghost to "get lost."  It still affects him.  He tells Zak about Sam Kinison and saw him being wafted off stage.  In the Belly Room he says he saw a ghost there.  Others tell of hauntings, Mickey Cohen, an enforcer working for Bugsy and a newcomer was slammed against the ceiling on stage.  A figure was seen again.  Jay prayers when he went to the Belly Room.  They feel cold spots and Zak uses a Trifield meter and hear metal clanging.  The Trifield is placed near the microphone and it spikes.  

Jeff Scott, the piano player speaks of a dark figure in the form of smoke he saw in the alley and they feel more cold air surrounding them.  Also seen by someone else.  A Mafia hitman named Gus was also killed there.  As well as the abortion in the basement carried out by Ellen on Sharon who died and Ellen was killed.  Zak feels something around him in the basement and he clenches.  Later Aaron's Polaroid saw a white mist next to Zak at that same time.  Beg, Baby, Daddy when he asks Who am I to you?  The Trifield spikes a lot.  Jeff Ross roasts Zak.  Personally I wasn't amused at any of the jokes!  Jeff says he feels the comedians.  The light on the stage lights up when Jeff talks of Brody Stevens, who committed suicide.  

Jeff joins in the basement and he has the same reaction Zak did in the same spot.  An anomaly comes up from the basement where he had the same feeling.  He thinks it could be Gus.The Polterpod leads to a figure on the SLS and a voice comes through, saying "Zak."  As well as another figure on the SLS by the back door.  "Jimmy ordered??? Ellen" ordered could actually be murdered or had her killed, will need to listen a few more times.  Also there was a Ciro's in London (1915) and one in Paris, before the one in California, where apparently a bartender was named Jimmy, but obviously he probably wasn't the same person as the name on the EVP.  

Upstairs an anomaly comes past the Trifield and Zak gets one above his head and Billy feels a static charge at the same time over his head.  Zak stumbles over saying high electro magnetic fields and the meter spikes off the charts rapidly.  In the secret window an anomaly moves from his back and another one comes out.  As a black mass appears over him, saw that!  APF Processor is used to capture spirit voices.  On the Paranormal Puck, Billy says "Brody" and the Puck Sensor on stage lights up everytime Aaron says his name.  Aaron then asks if he knows what is happening in the world and a voice replies "I understand."  What did Zak scream, "sit down??"  The Puck says "memories" when Billy asks how many spirits are there.  Could that be referring to residual presences in reference to the laugh captured on the recorder.  Aaron tells unfunny jokes and a laugh is heard, sounded like a few laughs, just like residual laughs.  A voice appears to say "what's up guys."  A dark shadow is captured. 

*Wilkerson started The Hollywood Reporter in 1933