| Muses Review - Book Review- Fall 2005 |
| Andrew Angus's Book Review |
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| Book Data: Title of Book: Feeling Poetic Author: Rewa Marie Fyles (Texas) Author's Website: www.rewamariefyles.com Genre: Poetry. ISBN:0-595-28731-X Publisher: IUniverse www.iuniverse.com Release Date: 2003 Book Format: Paper back Book Binding: Perfect Book Size: 5 in x 8 in Pages:110 Price: $13.95 Shipping: 4$ for first book.(3$ for second piece.) Bookstores: Muses Review Method of Payment: Credit Card or check Email: editor@musesreview.org Postmail: 2267 Woodranch Road, San Jose CA 95131, USA Nominated: Best Poem- "I Depend On Your Smile" |
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| Rewa Marie Fyles, Poet from Texas |
Title of Poetry Book: Feeling Poetic, A Book of Poetry Author: Rewa Marie Fyles Published by: IUniverse Inc. Place of publication: Lincoln, Nebraska 68512, USA Pages: 110 pp ISBN: 0-595-28731-X Price: US$ 13.95 (paperback) Book size: 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 Format: Paperback Binding: Perfect Bind Website: www.rewamariefyles.com Rating: 4 laurels out of 5 laurels. (4 laurels = Very Good) ----------------------------------------- Book Review by Andrew Angus Rewa Marie Fyles's book Feeling Poetic is a "feel-good" poetrybook because it makes you feel good after reading the book. The book contains poems about friendship, immature girl crush, mature love, loss of love, frustrations in relationships. Some poems reveal the poet's ideas about love and friendship. The book is 110 pages and contains around 45 long poems. The book is divided into 6 chapters - I. Feeling Dreamy II. Feeling Romantic, III. Feeling Confused, IV. Feeling Frustrated, V. Feeling Abandoned, VI. Feeling Encouraged. The unifying theme of the poetrybook is about feelings. Many of Rewa's poems are good material for spoken word artists. Examples of poems that are good material for spoken word artists are: "What Brotha Are You?" in p. 46, "Cancer/Aries" in p. 49, "Pound! Pound! Pound!" in p. 51, "I'll See You In My Dreams" in p. 8," I Depend On Your Smile" in p. 27," My Zone" in p. 29, "What I Like About Him" in p. 31, "I Don't Miss You" in p. 32, "Hopeless Still" in p.34, "Why I'm Waiting" in p. 45, "What Are You Scared of?" in p.72, "Crossed Paths" in p. 81 and many more. These poems are good material for spoken word artists because the poems are packed with strong emotions related to anger, frustrations in love, longing for true love, searching for mate, desire to be loved, loss in love or being abandoned by love, etc. One poem that captured my attention is "I'll See You In My Dreams" p. 8. This poem is about a woman's crush on a man. The woman would resort to dream or fantasy to be with the man. The first four lines: "There you are right in my face Another day we meet and share the same space. The only communicatioin is a hi or simple smile. But the tension I feel runs my heart wild..... The last four lines: So go away and leave, and to me say not one word, Because my feelings are spared when we unite in our world. Bye my love, for now it seems, But soon we'll be together when I see you in my dreams." Another excellent poem that caught my attention is the poem "I Depend On Your Smile" in p. 27. The smile of the guy is the source of energy of the woman: "I depend on you to get me through, Your smile is what gives me touch, A touch of love to tender and sweet, A touch of love from head to feet." A sensual poem I found in the poetrybook is entitled "My Zone" in p. 29. The poem ends like this: "If you can find my zone and bring out my beast, I'll open up and lead you inside of me. So let's go in my zone and let our bodies intertwine, For in my zone lay my soul, heart, and mind." The poet reveals the qualities of a man she loves in the poem "What I Like About Him" p. 31 The poet expresses her feelings after breaking up with her boyfriend in the poem "I Don't Miss You" in p. 32. This poem is an emotional poem about breaking up. The poem "Hopeless Still" in p.34 is also an excellent emotionally-charged poem. This poem is about the pain of breaking up or the pain of losing one's boyfriend and the strong deisre to forgive a boyfriend. A poem about searching for a good mate is found in the poem "Why I'm Waiting" in p. 45. The poetrybook is full of emotionally-charged poems. I would recommend this book to women who have experienced failures in relationships and continue to seek a good mate. The poet gives an assurance to her readers that they are not alone in their struggles in relationships in her last poem "When You're Feeling Alone" in p. 109. She says in the last 2 stanzas: "A peacefulness surges through your soul, and you are whole once again; There in the comforting arms of the Lord, your only true friend. So you leave this peaceful place and return to the battle that awaits you. Knowing you do not fight alone, His protective hand is always on you. " I would recommend this book to people who are diligently searching for love. Women who experienced crush, first love, ending a relationship, searching for a good mate, longing for romance will find connection in the poems of Rewa. The book makes you feel good because the poems unleash one's frustrations in relationships and makes you feel that you are not alone in failures in relationship. End of review. |
| Read Sample Poems of Rewa Marie Fyles: Click Here: The poem "Can" by Rewa Marie Fyles is featured in Fall 2005. |
