Review: Intriguing and Challanging Book of Poems
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 25, 2012
Anyone who is a fan of poetry or who is open to stretching their mind in terms of imagery and skillful word usage will enjoy this intriguing book of more than 30 poems written by author. Stella Link entitled "Moonlight Facets and Shattered Daydreams".While reading the book I thought that I should probably have paid more attention to poetry and read more of it over the years.I enjoyed the way the author used image-packed words to describe commonplace occurrences, like lightning for example, in uncommon terms, like the first couple of stanzas of the poem "Heat Lightning":"Staccato pops shoot out from darkened clouds,booming along with intensity, the explosions of heat, laced with sound,minefields in the sky, shooting firecrackers.Folded into cloud pockets, orange and yellow streaks of sound shoot across the horizon, shooting stars with bewildered temperament as they wax and wane along stormy skies."There aren't many people who are capable of describing a natural occurrence such as lightning so vividly and, to state the obvious, so poetically.Much of the dialogue in the poems is on the dark and even scary side. Some of it can be a bit confusing and perhaps a bit troubling. It would be interesting to have a discussion with the author about the emotions she is trying to get across in some of the poems.On the other hand, the mood can be light and airy. Take the last three stanzas of "Lake Camelot" for example:Grasping for stars like fireworks in the palms of your hands,the experience of movement of fingers, of bodies, like sparklers.Wanderers sipping from bottles, smiles playing upon their lips,upturned moonlit faces, dancing with rhythmic groove.Crowds gathered entranced by the mesmerizing beats,the sounds, smells, and sights of summer mystify as happiness dancesalong the shoreline.This is certainly an intriguing collection of poems which can be read very quickly. I recommend, however, that readers do is I plan to do. That is, read them over again and again at different times and while in different moods in order to see what I can take away from them over time.