The Eternal Dance: Love Poetry and Prose by Kamand Kojouri

I fell in-love with Kamand’s poetry more than a year ago and I was thrilled when this collection was published. It stands on my night table ever since and every once in a while I pick it up and I choose randomly a poem. Then I find myself turning the pages as words dance in front of my eyes and my heart feels the music. I see this collection of poetry as an eternal love dance. The dance of words. Some are about deep passionate reciprocated love, others about the inevitable pain when the love for someone it remains sadly one-sided. It is a declaration of love from the author to its muse presented in different section: love, attraction and infatuation, enchantment, heartbreak, devotion and obsession, understanding and unity. It is an emotional journey in the world of words. The message of each poem is deep yet easy to understand. To conclude, I would describe the whole collection as eternal beauty.

Type of reader: Lover of poetry and love in general. For those that admire how the words flow on the paper and take their time and reflect upon the infinite messages those words captured within.

It is impossible to pick a favorite poem from this collection but here is one of the many:

“Knowing you,
I became mindless.
Having wasted previous wishes,
I’m riddled with regrets.

Feeling you,
I became hopeless.
Adrift in chasms,
I surrender to a caress.

Loving you,
I became love.
My universe became love.
Planets rotate on love’s axes and
apples fall to be near their beloveds.

No longer a rationalist,
I assert my existence with love.
I love, therefore
I exist,
therefore I
love.”

My rating: 5/5.

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