Review: A Wonderful Book of Poetry
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 22, 2014
This is a wonderful book of poetry that I hope many people will read and enjoy as much as I did. The variety and quality of the selections is excellent and I'd recommend it to anyone interested in great poetry. In my opinion, this is how poetry should be written. It's totally fresh, deeply felt, and thoughtfully arranged and articulated. This inclusive book of poetry has something for everyone - even those who are not partial to poetry or for those who wish to be gently introduced to it.While every poem had something special to say, I found myself drawn to one in particular: `Ten Thousand Yins and Yangs'. In Chinese philosophy, the universe is made up of these two forces or energies both of which compliment or balance each other. I felt the poet captured scenes, that for a lifetime, I had never even thought about such as the simplicity of opening and closing one's eyes!These short poems present an opportunity to the reader to not simply read the poem, but to go over and over it, and finally memorize it. Then that poem the reader takes with them everywhere. It becomes part of oneself. And those lines are there for whatever time in life one may need them.