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A Special Power: My Poetic Observance of Life

A Special Power: My Poetic Observance of Life - Ron  Black A poem can be a particularly hard thing to review. Do you rate it on the style used, on the thoughts expressed, or on how it makes you feel?
And how, exactly, does one even begin to review a collection of thirty-eight poems?
Perhaps the most fair way is to rate each poem individually in order to gain better perspective.

The poems in this book deal with birth, life, and death. With friendships, adventures, and dreams. At times rather serious, and at others almost too silly, this is a difficult collection to rate. Adding to this difficulty is the fact that a lot of these poems are directed at specific people in the author's life, which can make it hard for a stranger to really relate or to understand all the nuances of the author's relationship with the subject.


The rest of this review can be found HERE!




When averaging out my ratings over the 38 poems inside, it came to:

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