Hi All
This is the 3rd installment of Cheerio's Book Reviews. Cheerio and I read a book - then we let you know our thoughts about it.
The books briefly reviewed today are Ross Leishman's "Lost Thinker: Unchained Melodies of Melancholy Harmonies" and Matthew Bowers' (Raven BLACK's) "Butterflies & Ghosts". ______________
I first ran across Ross Leishman's writing about a year ago - and I've followed his writing since. I find Ross' verse often highly relatable - and find his viewpoints (within his poetry) fascinating and uniquely expressed.
Here is a poem from "Lost Thinker:
Importance
To know one’s place in society, to feel like you’re not in a minority to have to answer to a higher authority, Importance.
To really know that you are loved, to really have faith in something above, to know that one mellopuff is never enough, Importance.
The importance of feeling important,, the necessity of our own complexity, the reality of our unbalanced Morality, Importance.
Searching for our role in the universe, knowing you never made anyone’s life worse, You are a blessing, never a Curse, The importance of feeling important. You are important
Cheerio & I give Ross Leishman's "Lost Thinker: Unchained melodies of Melancholy Harmonies" 5 stars (out of 5).
If you'd like a copy, you can find one here:
United States: https://www.amazon.com/Lost.../dp/1960038230/ref=sr_1_1...
United Kingdom: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lost.../dp/1960038230/ref=sr_1_1... ______________
Matthew Bowers (Raven BLACK) and I have been friends and admirers of each other's work for about 3 years - I hadn't been an indie poet for long before we met. I read Bowers' first collection of poetry, "Something Witchy This Way Comes" and really enjoyed it - original poems that sparked beautiful memories of the years I dabbled in paganism.
Bowers' second collection, "Butterflies & Ghosts", maintains the gothic world of his first collection and embraces the darker sides of life (and death), while providing glimmers of hope throughout the text.
Here is a poem from "Butterflies & Ghosts:
Truth Among the Dead
The radio grows silent
The evening sky radiates
A quiet breeze from pink to red
My face is frozen
Without words
How can I tell you
How does it not offend
How am I not a child
Hurt from time
Time brass knuckled
Punches me square
In my face and
I spit tooth
Blood, strings of saliva
On the concrete floor
Do you know?
Do you know?
I would have done anything for you
Cheerio & I give Matthew Bowers' (Raven BLACK's) "Butterflies & Ghosts" 5 stars (out of 5).
If you'd like a copy, you can find one here:
United States: https://www.amazon.com/Butter.../dp/B0CCCQNTV7/ref=sr_1_1...
United Kingdom: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Butt.../dp/B0CCCQNTV7/ref=sr_1_1...
Image: Cheerio with Ross Leishman's "Lost Thinker: Unchained Melodies of Melancholy Harmonies" & Matthew Bowers' (Raven BLACK's) "Butterflies & Ghosts".
