You all know how much I love poetry.

I usually read one book of poems every week, although lately that hasn’t been the case. However, of the few books of poems I read this year, I wanted to share my thoughts on this one by a fabulous independent poet, Wendy Haller.

There’s something about poetry that reaches into the deepest coves of human experience and emotion. It’s an honesty, a raw vulnerability that explodes outwards from the page. It’s as though poems themselves are beings that breathe and think and feel and love and yearn and grieve. Indeed, I think poems are pieces of the human soul and spirit manifesting through ink and paper.

This is true for Wendy Haller’s collection of poems, Kiss You Love, Goodbye.

Among these pages are the bearings of a human soul. Love, loss, grief, joy, fear…each poem plucks at a different emotion, a different experience, a different place in the speaker’s life. The speaker shares such intimate details, and yet it feels as though they, too, are searching through the words for deeper truth. But not in the sense that the speaker is lost, necessarily, but rather they wish to be more profoundly grounded not only in their lives, but within themselves. I found myself awed by more than one poem in this collection.

This was a quick, heartfelt read. I recommend it.

You’ll find this book here and please give Wendy some love!