Love Poems
Kanta Bosniak
CreateSpace
$8.99 on Amazon
Review by Rene Schwiesow
Kanta Bosniak makes her home in the foothills of the
beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains. There
she focuses on her art, music, writing, life coaching, inter-faith work and
people. I met Kanta in a wonderful,
artsy coffee shop that showcases much of Kanta’s artwork on a hot, summer
morning in 2011 – The Coffee Depot in Christianburg, VA. I was surrounded by her vibrant artwork (she
had a show hung in the space) and we chatted about many of our similar
interests including our need to write.
Kanta has a tenacity that I admire combined with energy and action. When she puts her mind to a task it is
virtually complete even as she thinks about it.
She also has a caring, loving soft side that translates well to her book
“Love Poems.”
This work is not about sappy, teenage infatuation, but
rather takes our thoughts about love to a higher level, to a place where love
encompasses all relationship – that with family, others, and That which we
consider the Beloved, God. In Love Poems
Kanta has combined delightful, energetic drawings with “hand-written” quotes
from well-known individuals such as Rumi, Hafiz, Saint Augustine and Gibran and
tossed them both with her own poetry.
This poetic, artistic salad feeds us with wisdom, color and fun. I greatly appreciated her analogy in “Socks:”
I’m
glad we’re both the sort of sock
that
doesn’t get lost in the machine.
We
may spin a little,
but
that’s just for fun.
We’re
no-drama footwear, easy care.
100%
natural fiber.
Comfortable, yet stylish.
Then she’ll take us back to awakening and connection in a
quiet meditative piece entitled “Morning:”
Jasmine
tea and toast and You
while
my beloved sleeps,
exploring
inner landscapes of his own.
She spends time speaking to a phenomenon that most of us are
familiar with in meeting a person who carries burdens, anger or sadness in
“Traveling Light.”
Yesterday I met a woman
in love with death and sadness
The poem relays the feeling of being sucked in, to taking on
the shadow of the other person
I felt the stale sweet heaviness
like mordant gray smoke
And choosing to “Travel Light,”
“No thanks,” I told her with a smile
Kanta’s book of Love Poems is a book to turn to for a
pick-me-up on a drab day, for a reminder of the connection we have to all
others, for a smile and warm fuzzy before drifting off to dream,
letting go,
letting go,
. . .sliding on sunbeams
carried on moonrays. . .
*****Rene Schwiesow is a co-host of the popular South Shore poetry venue The Art of Words. She writes a monthly arts column in The Old Colony Memorial and enjoys reading her work as feature poet and at open mics.
*****Rene Schwiesow is a co-host of the popular South Shore poetry venue The Art of Words. She writes a monthly arts column in The Old Colony Memorial and enjoys reading her work as feature poet and at open mics.
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