The path to enlightenment takes passion, honesty, faith, hope, and, most importantly, love.

In Enlightenment, his second collection of poetry, poet Raminder Bajwa explores the deepest depths of the human soul and the universal longing for meaning.

Divided into five sections titled "Love," "Truth," "Secrets," "Prayers," and "Enlightenment," these captivating poems take a raw and candid look at our humanness and what it means to be alive. Like a jolt of emotional current, Bajwa gives voice to what the soul only feels-propelling us to keep searching, reaching, and...

In a world that too often gives us cause to despair, poet Raminder Bajwa chooses to focus on reasons for optimism. His two previous collections-Of Angels and Few Lies, of Everything under Blue Skies and Enlightenment-both explore humankind's search for hope, love, and faith. His third book, The Flute Player, now revisits these themes in sixty new poems that mix the personal with the universal.

The poems are grouped into four sections: "Of Love," "Observations," "Wishes," and "Attitude."

By turns unabashedly romantic, humorous, and spiritual, the poems are...

In a world that too often gives us cause to despair, poet Raminder Bajwa chooses to focus on reasons for optimism. His two previous collections-Of Angels and Few Lies, of Everything under Blue Skies and Enlightenment-both explore humankind's search for hope, love, and faith. His third book, The Flute Player, now revisits these themes in sixty new poems that mix the personal with the universal.

The poems are grouped into four sections: "Of Love," "Observations," "Wishes," and "Attitude."

By turns unabashedly romantic, humorous, and spiritual, the poems are...