Review of A Brighter Tomorrow

[Shridhar Suryawanshi]

[Following is a volunteer review of "A Brighter Tomorrow" by Lori Schneider, MD.]

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4 out of 4 stars

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"An endless palette of brilliant color,
Creates a new world to discover.
Artist and viewer forever transformed,
By a masterpiece expertly adorned." ("The Artist").

Are you looking for a poem that managed to tug on your heartstrings and keep you up late at night thinking about them? In the one-of-a-kind book A Brighter Tomorrow, the author Lori Schneider, MD, weaves a stimulating collection of poetry to share with the world. The book's focus is on the current pandemic and covid-19, but it also tackles various themes like hope and despair, love and injustice, and courage and creativity.

For starters, I'll admit I am a big fan of poems because they manage to tell the tale of a thousand words in a few mere sentences wonderfully. So A Brighter Tomorrow definitely managed to live up to my expectations. The poems are neatly organized into seven different parts. With each one, an aesthetic artwork goes with it to deepen the meaning and message. There are also intriguing quotes from people like Deepak Chopra, Johnny Corn, Robert J. Kennedy, Harper Lee, Anne Frank, and more. In the poem "We are the same, you and me," the author emphasizes how tenuous peace is and that it can easily be shattered if greed or hate gets in the way, and she encourages us to see each other not by the land we were born on, but as fellow human beings. And in "Hope," the readers are reminded that even in the darkest times, nothing is hopeless. But these are just a few examples. The book holds much more magic.

I loved how this book had a somewhat therapeutic and soothing effect on me. While reading the poems, I found myself nodding in acknowledgment, smiling in pleasure, sighing in disappointment as I recognized some of the problems listed there, and taking a trip down the memory lane. The whole time, I was mesmerized by the author's easy-to-read writing style and compelling storytelling; the poems were written in a quite simple way, not challenging to understand in the least, but they held their own kind of magic. The transition from one stanza to another was smooth and rhythmic. It's not every day you find poems complex in their simplicity.

I highly recommend A Brighter Tomorrow to people who are struggling during covid-19 or like thoughtful art and poems.

This book was a wonderful read. There is nothing I disliked about it. In conclusion, I rate it 4 out of 4 stars.

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A Brighter Tomorrow
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[Margi zuu202]

Lori Schneider is my favorite author no one could have predicted the mass devastation of the pandemic of 2020 each and every one has been affected by this monster virus Lori Schneider wrote an inspiration poems that covers every topic this is a nice book and I will recommend it now that we recovering from the covid

[Amy Luman]

Poems do keep me up late at night trying to figure out what the author meant, but not in the good way that you mention. I don’t think that I would like the poetry itself, but I am intrigued by the artwork included.