This elegant poetry book is very uplifting to the mind, body, and soul. Twenty-four acclaimed and inspiring authors worldwide combined their poetic talents to enhance the captivating and artistic verses on the pages with creativity for humanity.
These enlivening verses of simulation are poignant and stem from various enhanced settings. The distinctive qualify of elegance and moving styles of poetry included are touching and uplifting. They stem from the unique styles of eagle-eyed poets who meticulously observe the finite details of their natural surroundings and illustrate their innermost thoughts for your enjoyment.
One will find the following forms and styles of fluency in the most persuasive and influential language and written in dialect with highly expressive intonation, rhythm, and the like from these extraordinary poets.
The narrative includes: haiku, freeform, rhyming sequence, existentialism, visualization, acrostic, and others. Get your appetite ready because the lines will bring saliva to your mouth from the international delicacies included.
The dispersive lexicons of English literature are dynamic and reflect various essence of styles. One will note the following:
symbolism
dynamic imagery
descriptive excellence
analogy
couplet
tercet
quintain
emphasis
hyperbole
metaphor
end rhymes
simile
symbolism
uniformity
active verbs
variations of tense
analogy, and
internal rhymes.
This elegant poetry book is very uplifting to the mind, body, and soul. Twenty-four acclaimed and inspiring authors worldwide combined their poetic talents to enhance the captivating and artistic verses on the pages with creativity for humanity.
These enlivening verses of simulation are poignant and stem from various enhanced settings. The distinctive qualify of elegance and moving styles of poetry included are touching and uplifting. They stem from the unique styles of eagle-eyed poets who meticulously observe the finite details of their natural surroundings and illustrate their innermost thoughts for your enjoyment.
One will find the following forms and styles of fluency in the most persuasive and influential language and written in dialect with highly expressive intonation, rhythm, and the like from these extraordinary poets.
The narrative includes: haiku, freeform, rhyming sequence, existentialism, visualization, acrostic, and others. Get your appetite ready because the lines will bring saliva to your mouth from the international delicacies included.
The dispersive lexicons of English literature are dynamic and reflect various essence of styles. One will note the following:
symbolism
dynamic imagery
descriptive excellence
analogy
couplet
tercet
quintain
emphasis
hyperbole
metaphor
end rhymes
simile
symbolism
uniformity
active verbs
variations of tense
analogy, and
internal rhymes.
POETIC SUBMISSIONS!
Poetic inspiration comes from all angles, day and night. When or how poetic proliferation is penned has many permutations like a grain of sands in the Sahara Desert. It comes anytime from anywhere and in any situation of life. It could be sealed in a bottle cast onto the oceans’ tides for future generations to discover. It could be derived from a Peniel Experience with God or in the moment of experiencing bewilderment of existential joy gracing the mind, body, and soul with much inspiration.
My beloved baby sister of God’s inspirational grace, Marsha, scribed the following poem on Sunday, December 27, 2020. She sent it at 12:51 pm. I opened it at 8:27 am the next day. It came days before the anthology’s kick-off date. The request was sent to her on December 23, at 2:30 am. She rose to the call of duty and diligently acted above and beyond expectations. It is the first poem to grace the “International Family Poetic Anthology.
Marsha states, “Joe, I went for a walk and spent an hour working out at the gym. After that, I returned home, got comfortable, and then penned this acrostic poem entitled:
“OH, My Brothers!’’’
Oh, my brothers!
How many brothers?
Many are my brothers
Younger and older are my brothers
Bad and Good are my brothers
Remembering all my brothers
Oh, my brothers
Teachers to me are my brothers
Heaven help my brothers
Every day, I think of my brothers
Remembering all my brothers
Savior, have mercy on my brothers!
Dr. Marsha P. Spence (Florida)
My sister and I have been close since childhood. We cherished the biblical connection of Mary and Joseph. I spent more time with her than any of my siblings. She is very optimistic, a great vegetarian cook, and makes nutritious natural juices. Whenever I used to visit her, we would always attend church and take my dear mother new flowers at her earthly resting site in Florida. We went biking, walking, and played great games of ping pong, and she loved my poetry books. We have always been supportive of each other. She is and always will be a dear soul and blessed sister unto eternity through God’s grace and everlasting blessings on her soul!
I like a poetry anthology and one that is called the International Family Poetry Anthology made me optimistic that I was going to read a coming together of values and cultures and people in harmony from diverse international backgrounds but with a collective message, possibly spiritual. Family implies warmth and tribute and using poetry suggests depth of meaning. All of that is here to some degree but I am not sure how harmonious the collection is in terms of its composition and in the way it has been compiled and presented as a book.
I found the collection slow to start as there are a lot of introductory sections before one even gets to the poetry, which are extremely wordy and are passages which talk of love and an appreciation for each other and especially for Dr. Joseph S. Spence, the person who brought everyone’s ideas together into this collection. As a reader, I did not feel that this was necessary as the poetry can speak for itself and should for every individual reader who picks up the collection.
There are themes that permeate the anthology: looking back at family; memories; food as a comforter as well as a link to cultural identity; faith in times of strife such as pandemics. The faithful will be bolstered by a collection such as this and the theme of God’s love is omnipresent throughout.
There is some lovely sentiment found in poems like Grandma’s Olive Words (Acrostic Poem)!(sic) which has a real trueness to it in what it relates for the poet, treasured memories of a respected family member. However, this is undermined almost by the inclusion of pop art on the next page which states “TOPNOTCH GRANDMA!” on a blue background over the top of a white cartoon conversation bubble with air escaping in puffs. This may be designed to augment the sense of appreciation for Grandma in a joyful way but I am not sure that this is wholly achieved. This is one example of many where visual aids detract from the validity and power of the words.
Personally, as a reader, I have mixed feelings about the anthology. There are some poems here with merit and depth that are worth reading and that I enjoyed, that met with the purpose outlined extensively at the beginning but at other times, I have to admit to feeling baffled.