I dedicate this book to my dear readers; I welcome you all to see through your self-beauty, your emotions & feelings such as fear, trust, desires, mistakes & loneliness, to see through our mother's eyes, her selfless love, a bit through nature - Skies, stars, oceans, bees, flowers. I also emphasized my favorite color in this book. To view through the different phases of life, where you will meet a few close and strange faces too.
I dedicate this book to my dear readers; I welcome you all to see through your self-beauty, your emotions & feelings such as fear, trust, desires, mistakes & loneliness, to see through our mother's eyes, her selfless love, a bit through nature - Skies, stars, oceans, bees, flowers. I also emphasized my favorite color in this book. To view through the different phases of life, where you will meet a few close and strange faces too.
I was a spot that developed from a piece of her land,
then I slowly started to sprout my hand.
I coiled, kicked, and annoyed her for a long,
and after a few months, I hopped out of a tong.
She cares for me like a precious lime pearl
I slowly grew all along with the time curl.
have taught me alphabets, numbers, and rhyme
fixed me from my mistakes at times.
I can only observe, in my mind's view other than her light,
or else I never saw anyone in my sight.
It's only her I assure you no one can ever take her place,
gratitude towards her pure nature would be an end phase.
Aazmao Arn's poetry release, Let's meet through the four rhyming lines, speaks to some of the core elements of what it means to be human. Born and raised in the Middle Eastern country of Qatar, Arn's collection of poems and personal reflections were inspired by her personal drive to give readers a deeper meaning to their feelings and thoughts. Within this humble collection of thirteen poems there is a range of events and worldly interactions, from those that dive down a microscopic lens, considering the ripple effect of perception and appearance, to poems that draw inspiration from nature and how it interacts with humanity. Preceding each poem is a motivational or thought-provoking statement (for example, "Patience", which reads, "Once you conquer patience, life can get easier.")
There are some likeable aspects of this collection. By being written consistently in a four line stanza format with rhyming couplets, there comes a methodical and reassuring beat to each page while reading through this short book. It makes for a somewhat comforting and homely style that perfectly matches the book's title. By constructing her poetry in this manner, Arn's has made her poetry anything but a drag.
That said, writing in this manner does result in the poetry feeling somewhat repetitive and lacking in imagination. There are occasions where the rhymes feel a bit forced and the stanzas drawn out or abruptly cut off to make them fit into the same cookie-cutter format as all the poems that come before and after. The one sentence statements that fill every other page is also something that, personally, I feel adds little and probably would have been better used to showcase more of Arn's poetry.
What I would love to see more of in Arn's creative talents is a broadened use of different poetic styles and types; more variation on the poetic structure and maybe some experimentation beyond the traditional confines of a four line stanza.
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