Tag: Poetry review

• My thoughts on Small Stones from the River by Kat Lehmann ( @songsofkat )

  

  • Publisher Createspace.com

  • Release Date 29th June 2017

  • Average Rating 4.2 / 5 🌟

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  Available on KU

  

  

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  Lehmann describes the writing in her book as meditations and micropoems. They seem made for fridge magnets, bookmarks, and greeting cards. In a world that seems increasingly cruel, inhumane, and barbaric Small Stones from the River is encouraging, thought provoking, and inspiring.

  The limitations
  I place
  On the dreams
  Of others
  Are the same limitations
  I place
  On myself

  One that I personally believe in

  Your legacy
  is your love

  that’s the best thing you do

  If ever you needed some word medicine I believe Lehmann’s words, if you truly try to believe in them, will help heal you.

  This one:

  if you feel
  your heart
  is eager to rain
  bring it a gift
  of sunshine instead
  and marvel
  at the glorious colours
  it makes

  made me think of the beauty of the rainbow patterns on rained on concrete when the sun comes out.

  make a certain peace
  with stagnation

  ask it to tea
  and stare patiently at one another

  when it is time to get up
  both of you
  will know

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  May 1, 2018

  Book review, Bookblog, Books, bookworm, Contemporary, haiku, healing, inspiring, meditations, micro poems, nature, poetry, Poetry review, psychology, self, thoughts, writing

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• My thoughts on Wayward Daughters by Ashly Kim @ashlykimchi

  

  Genre Poetry

  Pages 63

  Release Date August 15th 2017

  Average Rating 4.7 / 5 🌟

   

  

  available on KU

   

  

   

   

  

  I love to travel, the impermanence of where ‘home’ is, and having nothing, but fast food as an option for sustenance. So I loved this themed book by Ashly Kim. Three sisters are on the road, having left home, and Ashly uses the theme of family, as well as travel, and relationships.

  ‘oh, the shame

  our mother wept

  the entire sleepy town knew

  the Greene girls had

  run away,’

  The Greene sisters are deftly shown to have different personalities, and the fun they have, such as in Dust, a poem written entirely in dialogue, as well as their relationships with one another.

  ‘and Madison read aloud

  while Cassie painted

  her nails,’

  Wayward Daughters always hints at something darker, deeper, beneath the surface, alluding to abuse,

  and the sense that when you return, if you return home, you will not be the same person that you were on the eve that you left.

   

  

  

   

  

  April 5, 2018

  Bookblog, Books, Family, Opinion, poetry, Poetry review, Road trip, sisters, travel

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