I was intrigued when I received a copy of this poetry chapbook for review. It isn't the typical poetry book. The author, 'Laughing' Larry Berger, improvised these poems onstage in front of an interactive audience in various coffee houses in Los Angeles in 1996.
It isn't easy to write poetry, much less create it in front of a crowd, which is why I was delighted to discover Berger's wit, imagination, and flair for language. The verses, some as short as a few lines and some long enough for two pages, explore various subjects and themes, from fun and light to serious and transcendent.
A good example of the author's lighter poems is "Bubble Gum." The poem catches a moment, a single snapshot of pure joy. A recurring theme in this work is the idea that modern men are trapped, caged, slaves and prisoners of their own cars and apartments. One of the poems which exemplifies these ideas is "Leprosy."
Urban poetry is a very popular form of poetry. African American writers are most known for writing urban poetry because of urban culture. For a poet to enter an urban poetry competition their poem would have to relate to urban culture in some kind of way. Urban poetry is generally written with urban style words.
Some of my favorite poems in this book are the ones where Berger captures one single moment of happiness in a world where disaster looms in every corner. For example, in "Green Tea Ice Cream," which is about the prediction that the world will end in 2012, Berger ends the verse with the narrator being happy because he's simply enjoying delicious green tea ice cream.
Christian poem contests are competitions based on Christian's faith in God. These contests most likely would require that the enter poem be about God in some kind of way. Writers who often write pure poems or go to church are usually the ones who enter this kind of poem contest. At the same time poets who do not believe in God or have faith in God may enter a Christian poem competition with a poem that explains their disbelief in God.
In present day poetry for healing, we become doctors to our sicknesses and irresolvable woes; it is a track to our own special contribution to the many recommended solutions we find in our world of lengthy prescriptions. Every tablets of drug, scripture, incantation or therapy must directly or indirectly depend on the will of a living being to be active. This thus gives us a major part to the certainty of our existence and fulfillment. The poems of our own stories, makes each and every one of us priests of our well-beings and possibilities.
It isn't easy to write poetry, much less create it in front of a crowd, which is why I was delighted to discover Berger's wit, imagination, and flair for language. The verses, some as short as a few lines and some long enough for two pages, explore various subjects and themes, from fun and light to serious and transcendent.
A good example of the author's lighter poems is "Bubble Gum." The poem catches a moment, a single snapshot of pure joy. A recurring theme in this work is the idea that modern men are trapped, caged, slaves and prisoners of their own cars and apartments. One of the poems which exemplifies these ideas is "Leprosy."
Urban poetry is a very popular form of poetry. African American writers are most known for writing urban poetry because of urban culture. For a poet to enter an urban poetry competition their poem would have to relate to urban culture in some kind of way. Urban poetry is generally written with urban style words.
Some of my favorite poems in this book are the ones where Berger captures one single moment of happiness in a world where disaster looms in every corner. For example, in "Green Tea Ice Cream," which is about the prediction that the world will end in 2012, Berger ends the verse with the narrator being happy because he's simply enjoying delicious green tea ice cream.
Christian poem contests are competitions based on Christian's faith in God. These contests most likely would require that the enter poem be about God in some kind of way. Writers who often write pure poems or go to church are usually the ones who enter this kind of poem contest. At the same time poets who do not believe in God or have faith in God may enter a Christian poem competition with a poem that explains their disbelief in God.
In present day poetry for healing, we become doctors to our sicknesses and irresolvable woes; it is a track to our own special contribution to the many recommended solutions we find in our world of lengthy prescriptions. Every tablets of drug, scripture, incantation or therapy must directly or indirectly depend on the will of a living being to be active. This thus gives us a major part to the certainty of our existence and fulfillment. The poems of our own stories, makes each and every one of us priests of our well-beings and possibilities.
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