Lisa Hill, whose fine book blog, ANZ Litlovers Litblog I follow and comment on, has reviewed my book Haiku Rhapsodies on both her blog and Goodreads.
Thank you Lisa. 🙂 Please read on… 🙂
If you’ve been following this blog for a while, you may remember that I have made the
acquaintance of a poet called Celestine through her comments, and I have made reference to the haiku that she shares on her blog, Reading Pleasure. I subscribe to this blog, and so Celestine’s haiku pop into my inbox on a regular basis.
Haiku is, because of its apparent simplicity, more often a travesty of poetry, inane, banal and derivative, but Celestine has adapted this form to create small jewels of thought. Often I find her words consoling, sometimes they lead me to pause and wonder. And I have wanted to have them, not just in ephemeral cyberspace, but mine to have and read whenever and wherever I like. Today, to my delight I have discovered that Celestine has published a collection, Haiku Rhapsodies, and although I can only have it in a Kindle edition, I bought it immediately. (I really want a print edition, to keep by my bedside, to read as I read the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, much as many would read a Bible).
The poems are grouped into four themes:
•Afriku
•Nature
•My Heart
•The Divine
I can quote one from Afriku because it is part of the product description at Amazon.
empty calabash
reflects the fading sun
a beggar sits in gloom
Just eleven words, and yet immediately we feel it. A beggar has spent all day fruitlessly. He, or maybe she, has nothing. Nothing at all. There is no judgement, no appeal to the western pocket yet we know that this powerful image is representative of a great injustice in our world.
To read the rest of my review please visit https://anzlitlovers.com/2016/10/11/h…
Links for Haiku Rhapsodies:
Reading Pleasure 
An excellent review.
Thanks my friend. 🙂
A lovely review. Thanks for the recommendation 🙂
Thank you Diana. 🙂 Hope you will check it out . 🙂
It feels great to get such well written, thoughtful reviews, doesn’t it? I’ve added your book to my wishlist. Your poems are beautiful.
Thank you Diane, as always. 🙂 Hmm, I always feel humbled when I read the reviews of my book 🙂
‘Small jewels of thought’…a lovely phrase, the perfect description, of the beautiful haiku you write.
Thank you so much. 🙂