This book is for those, who want to read eternal, quality poems with beautiful metaphors, rhyme and rhytm.
These poems have found their place in modern poetry and are already easily distinguished. Although they can be roughly classified as romantic, all the poems are different. The author explores both love and nature, romance and irony, beauty and vice. Yet, all the pieces are sincere and touching. Another distinctive aspect is the rhytm and flow of the poems. Unlike most part of modern poetry, these are perfectly rhymed and have decent metrics. Alltogether the thought-up topics, original metaphors and constant rhytm make the poems distinguishable and worth reading.
Excerpt
Invitation to the past
Sheltered safely by the dark,
Through walls of rain and autumn dust,
I come to visit our park
And guard the pieces of the past.
I go around the yellow tree...
It didn't change; as good as new.
It drops a sunny tear for me
The way it used to cry for you.
I check the bench: it's all the same.
It keeps the whisper of your life
And the inscription of my name
Scribbled by your pocket knife.
I count the stars. They use to leave
Because they never like to wait.
They find it easy to believe
That love is wrong and I am late.
I don't agree. I call them back
For you may come that very night
To watch the sky, and their lack
Will dim the power of the light.
They all return to wait with me.
My love is strong and stars subdue.
So, if you come again, you'll see
That everything remembers you.
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
