🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟➕ “This is for whoever cores the poison apple, reelingSeeds for a newborn forest, and for whoever waitsTo clench, at those aged canopies,God in the mist at dawn” From the very first note, rapture, a fissure opening in my chest, as everything stills, and a lump, deep in my throat,…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Wildly original, this all-verse rendering of an age-old story hits so many notes on so many levels that to attempt to define it would be to constrain it. Profoundly moving, lyrical and beautiful, tragic and infuriating - a feminist tribute to every woman (literally “every” woman) who…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Haunting and unsettling, this chapbook of profoundly beautiful poems captured my heart. With many written in a mesmerizing stream-of-consciousness style, the author (poet) blends vivid imagery plucked from the natural world, (almost hallucinogenic in the brightness of its metaphorical flow), with the poignant and evocative musings of…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 1/2 Emerald green and gold, silver and blue, the reddest red of roses - the colors in these gentle lovely poems speak the language of love, of healing, of stars and fairies and summer gardens, “with green grass dancing, flowing like waves on a hill.” An ethereal…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Stunning. Insightful. Unexpected. I couldn’t put this small book of poetry down - so moved was I by the kaleidoscope of words, each piece of work so uniquely brilliant (though a small few, I must confess, I found maddeningly impenetrable). Experimental in nature, the “poems” captured here…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Reviewing this book of poetry is like reviewing raw emotion - as it’s impossible (and inherently wrong) to review another’s pain, or joy, or anger, or lived experience - all that can be done is to consider the reach, or “trueness” of the words expressed in their…