The learned professor of a university, Ranu Uniyal, is a scholar and has published some academic books as well as some edited ones. His first book of poems, Across the Divide, was published in 2006. December Poems is the second volume of his collected poems, published in 2012. Although December is a very cold month in Lucknow, a city in northern India, there are reasons why to celebrate this month for jubilation in his life. “We dance and dance until the wee hours of the morning / Well, is that what December nights are for? (Winter Blues/ 25) For her it is “A time to celebrate and a time to worship. . . . Looking ahead” (29 December). Elsewhere is “Everspiring Moment's Bliss” (December 30). Aside from the December episodes hidden in his life, the poems here are not individual fragments of disjointed ideas and experiences. There is an underlying unity and continuity of experiences in these exuberant poems of joy, sorrow and passion through which one can get an idea of ​​the flow of a poet's life in his youth, in his educational life and before that in love and lust, in frustration and desperation; a beautiful damsel as she was. Somewhere is a look back at the half-forgotten days of his life and an effort to set life's mooring somewhere in maturity, in an attempt to find comfort in it through reasonable adjustments; not just poems, but a web of underlying stories woven into prose poems with rhythm and joy even in the wake of temporary failures. These are mostly poems about relationships although not necessarily aimed at marital or amoral ones only like that of Kamala Das. Some poems are linked to the memory of the poet's father with whom she had a close relationship. She too r...... in the center of the card ......ft of life,Life is precious and only love can take its place on this earth.(Before the storm/ 57)But not let us get confused with the word love for here love is not that love singled out for the lover of a youth that she expressed so significantly: "Everywhere you are and suddenly no image is without you." (Among Us /24) Here love has broadened its horizon to embrace many more people and things in life including the divine. Ranu Uniyal loved life with passion and saw it from different angles, in pain and suffering as she was. She eventually came to some adjustments with the changing circumstances of life and found comfort in God as there is no use in expecting it from anyone else. His poems with intertwined stories bring the reader closer to his poetry. Works Cited December Poems. Ranu Uniyal. Calcutta; Writers' workshop. 2012© Aju Mukhopadhyay, 2013