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A review by motherhorror
An Exorcism of Angels by Stephanie M. Wytovich
5.0
A poetry collection exploring the themes of love--especially comparing and contrasting pain and hurt with all of those mountaintop experiences we have.
I don't think there is a single person that wouldn't be able to relate to the emotions shared in this collection. So many of these poems feel like an expression of something very similar that I have gone through and then other poems are a fictional manifestation of a fantasy I've had or some kind of fleeting thought.
Example:
BLEEDING BEAUTY is this mysterious little expression of a woman sitting alone in the dark just feeling some pretty serious feelings and who hasn't been there before? Granted, the poem might imply something a bit more murderous and dark, but it skirts around the edges of whatever that situation might have been and instead, focuses on just this one, isolated moment in time.
It's pretty powerful for such a small gathering of words.
BRIDGES IN HER MIND expresses an intention to keep her lover locked out of her mind by creating a labyrinth of bridges that move and change in order to establish a pattern of confusion.
CHAMOMILE TEARDROPS exposes the darkness and isolation of sadness. There was this tiny familiarity of Alice in Wonderland that I treasured.
On the next page, COFFEE & CIGARETTES is the end of a relationship tied to the simple act of dropping off a cup of coffee and a pack of smokes. So simple and yet really profound because all of us have those milestones in the mundane.
DISEASED DAMSEL had me smiling. It kind of reminded me of a season in my life when my marriage was really struggling because of some toxicity with my mother in law.
I could go on and on highlighting my favorite poems here and the way they resonated with me, but the exciting part of this poetry collection is that every, single person is going to read these words and interact with them in their own unique way. Readers will finish a poem and it will spark a memory or light an old flame...
...it's beautiful how timeless that is.
I don't think there is a single person that wouldn't be able to relate to the emotions shared in this collection. So many of these poems feel like an expression of something very similar that I have gone through and then other poems are a fictional manifestation of a fantasy I've had or some kind of fleeting thought.
Example:
BLEEDING BEAUTY is this mysterious little expression of a woman sitting alone in the dark just feeling some pretty serious feelings and who hasn't been there before? Granted, the poem might imply something a bit more murderous and dark, but it skirts around the edges of whatever that situation might have been and instead, focuses on just this one, isolated moment in time.
It's pretty powerful for such a small gathering of words.
BRIDGES IN HER MIND expresses an intention to keep her lover locked out of her mind by creating a labyrinth of bridges that move and change in order to establish a pattern of confusion.
CHAMOMILE TEARDROPS exposes the darkness and isolation of sadness. There was this tiny familiarity of Alice in Wonderland that I treasured.
On the next page, COFFEE & CIGARETTES is the end of a relationship tied to the simple act of dropping off a cup of coffee and a pack of smokes. So simple and yet really profound because all of us have those milestones in the mundane.
DISEASED DAMSEL had me smiling. It kind of reminded me of a season in my life when my marriage was really struggling because of some toxicity with my mother in law.
I could go on and on highlighting my favorite poems here and the way they resonated with me, but the exciting part of this poetry collection is that every, single person is going to read these words and interact with them in their own unique way. Readers will finish a poem and it will spark a memory or light an old flame...
...it's beautiful how timeless that is.