Goodnighttheskye
New fables for transformation
I was lucky enough to stumble over
goodnighttheskye's work a few years ago
on Instagram and Tik Tok,
I watched in awe as their words soared,
I was flawed by the metaphor,
the way they conjured worlds
from just a few words,
letters twisted into incantations,
spells that transformed them
into something beautiful.
So, I recently found out they had a book.
Well, I wasn’t going to miss out on this.
I love listening to spoken word,
but sometimes you miss
a touch of the magic that you get
when you can sit,
with a nice mug of hot chocolate,
that new book smell filling your nostrils,
cat clawing at you for attention,
and just letting the words
recite over your own spellbound lips.
So, as it flopped through my letterbox,
I dove to catch it, ripping into the packaging
to hold it within my mitts.
And the first thing I can say
is it is gorgeous.
With some brilliant cover art,
that gives a feeling of twisted fairytale worlds
and storybook forests,
this is right up my street
and it tells me that I’m in for a treat.
I flip the pages...
And I'm taken away from my room and placed
in a world not a million miles away,
but one that is given a whole new sheen,
a dusting of magic, a lick of the fantastical.
It’s like something from a dream.
I picture forests and streams,
unknown flowers blooming with light and love,
but there is also a darkness
that sweeps menacingly in between the trees.
It is experimental
weaving pop culture
and nostalgia into a fantasy realm,
Now this could be seen as gimmicky
at the hands of someone less skilled,
but here it is far from that,
it is the perfect blend.
Now this isn't to say this book IS a fantasy,
or a fairytale, it is real life with all that life entails,
It is moments plucked from photograph memories,
It is pain, it is love,
it is days when you feel uncomfortable
in your skin. It is life.
it is just written in a way
that makes you look through different lenses,
seeing the colour and texture of every scene,
Feeling every emotion
as it washes over your heart
like the waters of a stream.
The wordplay is immaculate,
the metaphors are spectacular,
it plays on your perceptions
and then rips them apart.
the beauty of poetry is that it gets under your skin,
it climbs inside, makes a home,
letting you feel everything,
letting you almost taste the air that the writer has breathed,
it becomes a part of you.
And now I hold this book on the shelf in my heart
where it will stay, lovingly looked over many times.
So please let it into your heart too,
I assure you that it will make
everything feel different,
you will see in all new colours,
and I think you will love it as much as I do.
Five stars if I could give more I would.
Grab your copy here
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