I believe poetry is the highest form of literary composition.
Though the sun is brightly shining
Over the glossy waves of the sea,
My love, she lies buried and pining,
In a tomb by a grave she calls to me
I have walked alone this empty shore,
With a shy camera in my trembling hand
Taking pictures, as the dead implore
The living wings at a gull's command
I talk to him at his mysterious ease,
His swift beauty is his strength to fly
I lift my camera in the autumn breeze,
As he spreads his gray wings to try
To fool me, but in a flash I know him,
Our spirits merge; we rise into the wind
Robin Ouzman Hislop's poetry is certainly in dialogue with some of the key architects of the 'poetics of indeterminacy' – both the Modernist strands represented by the likes of Beckett and Stein, and the postmodernist strands represented, initially,
This is a book of free verse poetry that addresses the seven main tests in life and offers some sensible solutions to passing those tests with minimal discomfort.
Blessings, Jo