Showing posts with label poetry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poetry. Show all posts
Pages: 94
Genre: Poetry
Orange Hues and Midnight Blues is a debut collection of poetry. It tries to draw the emotions of those happy orange hues of hope, dreams, love, and peace. The one you would feel looking at a lovely sun kissed sky and wonder about the beauty of life.
And as you stare at it, the sun vanishes and the blues take over, taking you to the times when the heart fills up with a feeling of self-doubt, soul feels lost and the fear of what tomorrow holds creeps in. The midnight blues get darker with thoughts about the past and dreams that couldn't be.
But amidst these hues and blues, there is an essence of life, the feeling of being and rejoicing in every moment.
 |
| * |
A huge thank you to the author for sending me the book to review it.
I have to say I quite enjoy reading this book. I took some time to really dive deep into it because I'm a person who loves enjoying a good poetry book here and there.
The poems are simple; about life and heartbreak. The words hold a lot of depth in them. It is, however, an easy read and easy to understand, which I loved the most. Simple, yet deep!
I liked the writing style and all the rhymes. It flowed easily and I could connect to the poems. I feel like every person would find a piece of themselves in these words because most of us have experienced what is described in this book.
Simply lovely!
I've saved a few of the lines I loved the most, just to give you an insight into what this is about.
❝A piece of my heart shall always be yours,
How can I un-love the one who was my world?
If it was love, it shall always be love.❞
(A Piece of My Heart, page 34)
❝Love can never be unloved,
Love can never hate
Because if it was love,
It shall always be love.❞
(Love shall always be Love, page 46)
Release date: September 4th, 2018
Pages: 240
Genre: Poetry
From the internationally bestselling author of Love Her Wild comes The Dark Between Stars, a new illustrated collection of heartfelt, whimsical, and romantic poems from Instagram poetry sensation, Atticus.
Atticus, has captured the hearts and minds of nearly 700k followers (including stars like Karlie Kloss, Emma Roberts, and Alicia Keys). In his second collection of poetry, The Dark Between Stars, he turns his attention to the dualities of our lived experiences—the inescapable connections between our highest highs and lowest lows. He captures the infectious energy of starting a relationship, the tumultuous realities of commitment, and the agonizing nostalgia of being alone again. While grappling with the question of how to live with purpose and find meaning in the journey, these poems offer both honest explorations of loneliness and our search for connection, as well as light-hearted, humorous observations. As Atticus writes poignantly about dancing, Paris, jazz clubs, sunsets, sharing a bottle of wine on the river, rainy days, creating, and destroying, he illustrates that we need moments of both beauty and pain—the darkness and the stars—to fully appreciate all that life and love have to offer.
Atticus, has captured the hearts and minds of nearly 700k followers (including stars like Karlie Kloss, Emma Roberts, and Alicia Keys). In his second collection of poetry, The Dark Between Stars, he turns his attention to the dualities of our lived experiences—the inescapable connections between our highest highs and lowest lows. He captures the infectious energy of starting a relationship, the tumultuous realities of commitment, and the agonizing nostalgia of being alone again. While grappling with the question of how to live with purpose and find meaning in the journey, these poems offer both honest explorations of loneliness and our search for connection, as well as light-hearted, humorous observations. As Atticus writes poignantly about dancing, Paris, jazz clubs, sunsets, sharing a bottle of wine on the river, rainy days, creating, and destroying, he illustrates that we need moments of both beauty and pain—the darkness and the stars—to fully appreciate all that life and love have to offer.
 |
| * |
What in the bad poetry is this mess? Seriously. What the hell is this and who thought this was a good idea to publish it?
I liked the total of 4 poems in this book, everything else felt just like some words put together in a complete nonsense as if the author was playing "writing what first comes to my mind".
This is bad. This is really, really bad. And this is coming from someone who's read Love Her Wild and I absolutely loved that one! But this one was terrible. And just to give a few examples:
❝I've always loved lavender,
it's purple in all the right places.❞
Pardon, what?
Is this for real? Am I being pranked?
❝Wine tastes sweeter when drunk on love in Paris.❞
❝An open window in Paris
is all the world I need.❞
I'm all about short poetry and the Instagram trend that is going on now. I love Rupi Kaur's style and the idea of putting so much meaning in so little words.
But this book felt like I'm reading Instagram captions under the pictures and even those sound more meaningful and less repetitive. It was like reading the same thing over and over again with different words.
Yeah. This is a big no, thank you from me.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
Social Icons