This poetry book is all about love.
It captures the myriad emotions we always have, the nitty and gritty feelings of companionships and the loud overtures that often escape our mouths even with the best attempts at concealment.
There’s a feeling of calmness, pure love mixed with joy and a tinge of guilt even as one remembers the first poem is a strong attraction, feelings of love between a priest and congregant.
But how are priests supposed to feel?
Throughout the book, one gets to see the phases. At first, it is all above the joys of love, which are made relatable by the easy language of the poet.
In the middle pages, one is faced with the usual heartbreaks, feelings of hesitation and pain that is brought by the need to belong to another.
What more a crime
than the love you killed?
What more a delusion
than the illusion of love?
The love I had for you
And so bloodily killed.
Vincent De Paul, Holy emotions
Towards the end, Vincent De Paul, shares the rollercoaster of love, with a few hope for companionship as the poems take a positive look.
However, the author suddenly shares heartbreaking news, it is the Rest in Peace poem.
No matter how much love flames out more and subdues, lovers will eventually part at death. Painful.
As in all poetry books, some poems are very good, while others are not so.
I particularly did not like the rhyming in some poems. Soledad, Never Ever and Lost love, to me, they did not flow like the other poems.
The poems Holy Emotions, live up to its title, other poems such as The break up, True Love, Cold love, , War of love, Lost in love.
In the poem Rage, love turns to hate because of the pain of betrayal. It is beautifully delivered.
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