By Charles Robert Lindholm

Ice Caps Are Melting
Faster Than We Thought

Reaching for the alarm that wakes
He takes
A step into the unknown.
Breakfast will, he thinks, Be followed by leaving home
For work.

No sudden jerk
Of fear,
Just the passing thought, death is always near
And one day all will
Be still

A few weeks ago my son told me about a fun phone app for book lovers called Litsy. I wasn’t sure I wanted to get into more social media. We all know what a time drain it can be. But because I only use social media for my blog, I thought it might be a good fit without taking up a lot of my time.

I was right!

Litsy is a fun way to share books and book reviews and you can link your posts to your blog and include links in your profile. It’s bright and colorful and easy to use. It’s also very friendly, which is something that is important to me.

Here’s how Litsy describes itself:

The only thing that matches the joy of reading is sharing that joy with others. That’s why we created Litsy. Founded in 2015 by the bibliophiles who brought you…

What Amazon says

A collection of poems about nature, love, and life in general.

My review

I have to state right up front that I love the style and flow of Kevin Morris’ poetry. There is something about how Kevin writes that seems to captures the true heart of poetry and it is a pleasure to read his poems.

I have read other poetry books by Kevin Morris and they have been lovely reading experiences but this particular volume really appealed to me. Perhaps because the poems in this book are slightly darker and highlight the more secretive, devious and hidden side of human nature and also the more willful, untamed and wilder side of nature. Kevin uses his carefully chosen and powerful words to cut to the beating heart of a wide variety of weighty and sometimes political subjects.

Here are a few of my favourite stanza’s from poems…

My dog snuffles
and scuffles
amongst the leaves.
He is just there
With no care
For what I think
As I drink
In the fresh morning air.

Today I thought I’d examine a couple of hyperbolic metaphors on the basis of their being literally true and see where that got me, scientifically. I mean, what is a hyperbolic metaphor worth if science can’t say something about it, really? Check this out.

‘Enough food to sink a battleship’

How much food would sink a battleship? We have to suppose it
means enough food to overload the vessel until it sinks, but that doesn’t
define a figure because battleships have been built to all sorts of displacements, from
the 10,000-ton British jobs of the late nineteenth century through to the
70,000-ton Japanese monsters of the Second World War. Obviously the weight
needed to sink one will vary.

What’s less obvious is that even if we defined a