Review of Short Poems, Long Tales
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Review of Short Poems, Long Tales
[Following is a volunteer review of "Short Poems, Long Tales" by Rashid Osmani.]
Short Poems, Long Tales by Rashid Osmani contains over a hundred poems. The poems talk about love, friendship, separation, and many others and their impacts on humans. Moreover, the book carries emotions and a message that will impact the readers’ behavior and feelings. The introductory poems focus more on human relations and their life perspectives. Other poems highlight lessons learned from human existence and their activities and effects. Such activities include faith and belief, goals-pursuing, emotions, and decisions. The author mixes rhyming and free verse styles in this book to criticize, motivate, and give life hacks to his audience.
There is much I liked about this book, including the simple vocabulary used. Unlike some poets, Rashid Osmani used common English words that even non-English natives could understand. That made it easy for me to understand the book’s contents. Secondly, I appreciate the book’s tone. The author designed each poem with a specific goal in mind, and the style in each of them was intellectual and suitable for the desired purpose. For instance, a poem criticizing a particular behavior, such as over-religion, uses suggestive phrases to convince readers to think along the same line as the author while not using commanding or abusive terms to force readers to admit to the author’s views.
Furthermore, most of the poems in this book tackle critical issues that the current world prefers to turn a blind eye to. Such issues include religion, hypocrisy, gender bias, racism, etc. The author highlights the issues above in his poetic freedom, showing their state and their impacts on society. Again, I applaud him for being open-minded when tackling these issues, given their magnitude.
My favorite poem in the book is “Digging.” It talks about the realities of friendship; the further you go into people, the more you see their dark sides. That explains why many relationships currently have bad endings. My best line would be, “Everyday reality pours a little more sense into us” from the poem “Drawn In.” That line is plain and self-explanatory.
I did not encounter anything negative to comment on in this book. It was professionally edited. Therefore, I will rate it 4 out of 4 stars. This book of poems pushes readers to face topics about human personalities that many tend to skip. It lays out the realities as they are. Consequently, I recommend it to open-minded readers who desire to exploit the facts of human behavior.
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Short Poems, Long Tales
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Short Poems, Long Tales by Rashid Osmani contains over a hundred poems. The poems talk about love, friendship, separation, and many others and their impacts on humans. Moreover, the book carries emotions and a message that will impact the readers’ behavior and feelings. The introductory poems focus more on human relations and their life perspectives. Other poems highlight lessons learned from human existence and their activities and effects. Such activities include faith and belief, goals-pursuing, emotions, and decisions. The author mixes rhyming and free verse styles in this book to criticize, motivate, and give life hacks to his audience.
There is much I liked about this book, including the simple vocabulary used. Unlike some poets, Rashid Osmani used common English words that even non-English natives could understand. That made it easy for me to understand the book’s contents. Secondly, I appreciate the book’s tone. The author designed each poem with a specific goal in mind, and the style in each of them was intellectual and suitable for the desired purpose. For instance, a poem criticizing a particular behavior, such as over-religion, uses suggestive phrases to convince readers to think along the same line as the author while not using commanding or abusive terms to force readers to admit to the author’s views.
Furthermore, most of the poems in this book tackle critical issues that the current world prefers to turn a blind eye to. Such issues include religion, hypocrisy, gender bias, racism, etc. The author highlights the issues above in his poetic freedom, showing their state and their impacts on society. Again, I applaud him for being open-minded when tackling these issues, given their magnitude.
My favorite poem in the book is “Digging.” It talks about the realities of friendship; the further you go into people, the more you see their dark sides. That explains why many relationships currently have bad endings. My best line would be, “Everyday reality pours a little more sense into us” from the poem “Drawn In.” That line is plain and self-explanatory.
I did not encounter anything negative to comment on in this book. It was professionally edited. Therefore, I will rate it 4 out of 4 stars. This book of poems pushes readers to face topics about human personalities that many tend to skip. It lays out the realities as they are. Consequently, I recommend it to open-minded readers who desire to exploit the facts of human behavior.
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Short Poems, Long Tales
View: on Bookshelves | on Amazon
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