Poems that welcome and embrace Mother Nature's seasonal wind blown mysteries. This book of poetry invites you to pause, kneel down in a meadow and experience the flora and fauna of Pennsylvania. To live among the rolling hills and valleys, as nature's changing rhythms keep the time. In Sway by Tricia Johnson, we imagine ourselves in the wilds of Nature with our heads resting on the back of our arms, eyes wide, observing the Living World.
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Poems that welcome and embrace Mother Nature's seasonal wind blown mysteries. This book of poetry invites you to pause, kneel down in a meadow and experience the flora and fauna of Pennsylvania. To live among the rolling hills and valleys, as nature's changing rhythms keep the time. In Sway by Tricia Johnson, we imagine ourselves in the wilds of Nature with our heads resting on the back of our arms, eyes wide, observing the Living World.
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Sway by Tricia Johnson is a collection of poems about the changing seasons and embracing nature from the perspective of the author. This is the second book of poems Johnson has written; readers who liked her first book: Whirl Away Girl, will enjoy her newest edition.
Johnson�s poems are written almost like a coded diary that is full of emotion and feelings that are deep and guttural and evoke emotions in the reader. The poems are easy to read, but I feel like the poems are open to interpretation. I found one poem blended into another, and without the strong theme of summer, fall, winter, and spring (in that order, I believe), I wasn�t able to tell one poem from another.
My favorite poem in this book would be Shadows Bold, as it holds a steady rhythm and is easily interpretable. Depicting the snow melting and spring coming alive. I liked how the author began and ended the poem with similar lines, ââ?¬Å"Sun makes shadows boldââ?¬Â¦ As sun keeps shadows bold.ââ?¬Â?
I enjoyed the inconsistency of the poems, and it was a nice surprise that accompanied each poem. Most of the poems do not rhyme or form a certain structure.
For example, on page 17, the poem does not start with a rhythm; however, if you continue to read, there are two lines that start a rhyme ââ?¬Å"Nighttime haze/ Your eyes glazeââ?¬Â¦Ã¢â?¬Â? Only these two lines, and then the rhythm is dropped. But the author then picks up the rhythm again in a chunk at the end. ââ?¬Å"Silent prick to eye/Unstoppable weather drifting by/Pop-up storm of emotion/Clouded by such devotionââ?¬Â¦Ã¢â?¬Â? And the rhyme is dropped again. This does not follow any structure that Iââ?¬â?¢m familiar with, and I find it interesting.
Sway is a pleasant and light read for those who enjoy poems about nature and enjoy the reflective nature of poetry.
