Scattered Allegories

By Ohan Hominis

This poetry is alive. The author’s voice is so present, and the pictures they are painting and the emotions they are evoking are so clear, that it is undeniably excellent.

Hominis's words are so frank, clear of any metaphor or illusions that try to take you off course of what the author is trying to say. The poems are not pretenious, nor are they academic. Instead, what you get is a massive dose of refreshment. His words reach the folks that need poetry in their lives.

Well crafted.
Well cared for.

Hominis gives us just enough information about the characters and settings to give us a picture of the subject, but does not bombard us with needless description or fluff.

This is an excellent example of modern poetry. Crafted, but not confined to rules, descriptive without rambling and insightful without being too philosophical. The author understands how to use the free verse style of poetry to its best advantage.
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• Language: English
• Publisher: Unsolicited Press
• Release date: Dec 28, 2016
• ISBN: 9781370166466

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Scattered Allegories

Ohan Hominis

Published by Unsolicited Press

www.unsolicitedpress.com

Copyright © 2016 Ohan Hominis

Anybody Can Do It

"I want to write her a poem

to tell her how much I love her"

he said

"but I'm no poet

I don't have a way with words

I stumble

along

fidgeting with my grammar

and it always ends up silly.

I can't make it look easy

can't make it sound natural

but I try.

I haven't sent her a text message

that didn’t take me hours

because I scrutinize every word.

'Hi'

Takes me an hour and a half.

How it reads in my head,

how it sounds when I read it out loud,

what it looks like backlit

on a little phone screen.

I sometimes read my own messages

to her

on her phone

while she’s sleeping

to see if the words look like I thought they would,

that's how much I love her.

I knew everything had to be perfect.

That I had to be the absolute best version

of myself

if I ever wished to keep her

interested.

I don't want to write about her hair, oh,

it's perfect but I don't want to write about it.

Or her smile,

her ears when she laughs,

and when she's not laughing,

or her nose

anything about her,

she's perfect.

How could I focus on any of her?

I'd be better off handing her an anatomy textbook

and saying

here,

these are all the things about you that are perfect.

Hand her a map

with all