"Gotta pick a pocket or two", McPhagin, and you paint yourself here as the regular Artful Jack the Lad Dodger of Free Verse... except this is tightly metred and beautifully lyrical, with lots of internal rhyming going on... Sure, here's fifty! You can make even dire poverty seem romantic when couched in such ambient restlessness; you're certainly going to survive the Nordic freeze and stir an early spring when you hit Sweden next month! Hopefully you will run into the great-grandaughter of HCA who will be able to furnish you with a fairytale dream come true! :))) xx
Reviewed by Silke Lance, Dr. Ph (Reader)
Reviewed on January 17, 2005
Excellent!
Reviewed by Judy Lloyd (Reader)
Reviewed on January 17, 2005
You touched me with this poem and I liked it a lot.
Still Living on my Feet is the follow up to Tichaona Chinyelu’s first book, In the Whirlwind, which was rooted in a sense of hard-hitting revolutionary black love. However, in this sophomore effort, Tichaona brings the revolutionary essence from deep
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Unique creative and inspiring... "Can I Touch You for a Poem" glows.
In admiration,
Andre Emmanuel Bendavi ben-YEHU
Aberjhani
Could you spare a rhyme?
..indeed you can...
excellent work!..LOve it..
Vesna.)