Mouthful of Forevers

Title: Mouthful of Forevers

Author: Celementine Von Radics

Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing

Year: 2015

Pages: 112 (Paperback)

Rating: 3.5

I don't know how to rate poetry and I don't know why I'm giving it a rate higher than the other poems I despised to the core.

I mean, I lve the idea of this book. Raw yet bring up so many aspects of life. But that's also the problem. The rawness and the description itself: Titled after the poem that burned up on Tumblr and has inspired wedding vows, paintings, songs, YouTube videos, and even tattoos among its fans, Mouthful of Forevers brings the first substantial collection of this gifted young poet’s work to the public. And how Tumblr-ish this book is almost covered entirely. I mean, Tumblr is good, but in Tumblr there are many ideas from aspiring poets which are cheesy and deviated. I, myself, is uncomfortable every time I read Tumblr quotes.

There's this overly simplistic poem which the significance cannot be detected:

It's Just So Strange

He used to love me,

and now

he's just a stranger

who happens to know

all my secrets.

I mean, why people. You have so many potentials but end up writing lines you called as a poem? Fuck that The Princess Saves Herself From This One only contains of such thing.

But what makes my brain contradicting is, this book provides us with alluring words:

Superheroes always have broken hearts

and tragic backstories, so maybe I'm

doing okay

or

I envy the way leaves

know exactly whan to fall from the branches

and when to come back

in the spring

or

I will love you when you are a still day.

I will love you when you are a hurricane.

Acceptable and excatly leaps my expectation.

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