Ah! Poetry: Book Review

It is a mild poem,

Feeble yet stern..

Shredded yet evinced...

Embossed with immense emotions

It shines in dark

When your light lingers upon it

Pluck these words with a smile..

The ‘Poem’ is self-explanatory that delves into the nature of a poem. In few words the poet clarifies how poem writing can bring respite to an unspoken soul and how the words are connected with thoughts of the person.

A bit of repetition in can be found in ‘Paradise Lost’ through which the poet describes a part from a refugee’s memory who has escaped oppression from a battleground.

Through her poem ‘Way To Live’, the truth-seeking poetess brings guidance to those who feel lost. Her work is a humble example for the same effort that shows off a simple and irregular rhyme scheme.

Quirkily, ‘Doors’ closes with a simple question before the reader, thus invoking their thought process. Its poetess wonders about the common yet strange character of doors and ponders over why they act in their typical, never-questioned-before ways of movement.

‘A Little At A Time’ is amazingly short (30 words) and effortlessly says a lot about the trouble with excess of anything, here love.

‘Neda, Coup d’Oeil’ is a sensitive composition that focuses on the issue of death of innocent during war.

Deflowered is delicately written from the point of view of a sex-worker, who finds herself lost and deflowered of innocence and identity.

‘ Road’, one of the five short poems from the ‘Palm’ collection, is more like a statement that incorporates no poetic device save the sixteen words are written in a single stanza; ‘Road’ has a deep realization in it that makes it admirable.

Four-stanza long, ‘Haikus On Coffee’ is an interesting art work following the regular pattern of 5-7-5 syllables in every piece referred to as Haiku (A Japanese form of poem writing).

‘Poet’s Dilemma’ is vivid, hilarious and a joy to read, descriptive in, delves/dives into the vegetable world, personifying them all with emotions, ambitious and tasks to accomplish

Mime perhaps takes inspiration from William Shakespeare’s quote – “The world is a stage”; it also talks about the vastness of world, “...yet inaudible am I...”

‘Those Papers In My Drawer’ is a beautiful poem that will make us recall those days when we are constantly asked to clean the disordered shelves and drawers.

Just after reading the title ‘Billionaire’ I had presumed the following poem would be about someone with a billion bucks. I was proved wrong. It is one of the most beautiful poems.

Two twenty three pages generously bursting with imagination, mindsets, and abstract thoughts are an overwhelming compilation of honest work, belief in oneself and one’s abilities to pen down all the feelings on paper for everyone to read and interpret in their own way.

The publication could have been taken care of, in some cases grammatical errors can be felt mainly in terms of punctuation and unnecessary spaces. The publishers could perhaps revise the next edition.