Student launches poetry book

The most moving, disarmingly raw early poems by Arfa'a Iman Kalera in the book titled 'Lines of Innocence' concerning God, the Holy Prophet (PBUH), motherland, soldiers, parents, seasons, world and life, fear and tear, friends, money, examinations, peace, women, animals etc.
Poems with topics like 'A Mouse, My Cat, Chocolate Cake', juxtaposed with much serious subjects touched upon in the poems like 'Forbidden Love, A Woman Alone, In The Dark, In the Garden, Peace, I Remember, Money, World and Life, What!' represent a surprising childhood adventure. There old folk ways are in turn contrasted with the new world of tourists and planes.
Nature is a constant theme with detailed almost painterly descriptions of its flora and fauna in poems like 'Love in Spring, Rainfall, Autumn' transfused with classical tradition, which makes them a compelling read.
These poems may be read as a storyline, loaded with swaying detail, of life too young and, a reconciliation between what has been left behind and what has been accomplished, or half-accomplished. The success of the poems, nevertheless, lies in their ever-recurring proposition that if we are predestined for such intricate compromises, we are also preordained to find out, through meditation on beauty, on memory and on ourselves, a sort of deliverance.
In Arfa'a Iman Kalera's poems, no qualm about it, the world can be unsightly as well as good-looking, the person can be stranded in solitude as well as in friendship; against the tight spots designed by events of life, she sets with substantial poise, poems uncomplicated but full of contemplation and empathy.
Out of the poet's recipe for poetry emerged many of the poems collected in her poetry book. Although her biological casement is brief and fleeting and presses in on the margins of each poem, but we feel and watch and project our human longings onto the myriad worlds reflected in her poetry.
All the joys and sorrows, fears and fantasies of an imaginative solitary poet are brought together in this publication of a poet who has an old head on young shoulders. Her verses bear witness to a childhood that created a treasure garden for the readers to explore. I am, therefore, not baffled how a poetry book by young girl captured the imagination of two old critics i.e. Muhammad Shanazar and Dr. Turabi.
When young poetry lovers read her they identify with the young poet and are reminded of the innocence of being so young, something that they didn't think about on first reading because they were far too innocent to understand innocence.
Arfa'a poetry reaches students at their varying levels of interests and shows them how poetry functions. There are some suggestive and morbid poems in this book that many young children might not understand. They are capricious and sometimes utterly sadistic, which one can't expect from a young heart.
Students matter, surely, but if something is slightly over their head in terms of age-appropriateness, it seems bizarre.
There resides in Arfa'a poetry inquisitiveness, surreal circumstances which are at times melancholic, unusual, somber, impulsive and self-pitying. This array of attributes represents a wider spectrum than most child writers of her era have considered yet.
Students are not yet whole beings. They are evolving and developing with each new insight which should arise. Why should they not be given the full palette of human emotion to dabble their paintbrush while there remains a steady eye of the critic to guide their intentions?