A review by thecaffeinatedreader
The Wind Softly Murmurs: Poems of Family Love and Loss by Sharon Arthur

inspiring reflective

4.75

**I received a copy of this from the author in exchange for my honest review.**

One doesn't expect such prose in this day and age on the manner of grief in poetry but Sharon Arthur achieves a mythical and spiritual journey for the grieving in her poetry. The poems are divided into sections, and she shares with the reader words that have come to her from the loss of her own parents. One doesn't need to lose a parent though to identify with Arthur, simply know the feeling of grief.

The poems are beautiful and haunting and the call to the age of mythology in them makes for a powerful read and I haven't seen such talent in a 'new' poet in quite a long time.