Love Calls and Roundelays: A Potpourri of Poetry and Photo Art [Paperback]

Wyn is a past member of the economist world, serving as advisor to government, various firms and international trading companies. Important to note that bit of information before indulging in this little book of unpretentious poems and photographs because it serves as a beacon for those immersed in the working world, inundated with the chaos of getting by and struggling to find a reason for all the mess we've created. Wyn retired early from that stratum and became involved in promoting medical research, studied ate Parson's School of Design and turned his creativity into architectural ideas for living spaces. Now he writes and photographs...and lives. These poems are reminders of the simplicity that remains outside the range of our rigid perspective: they are a balm.

Coupled with beautiful black and white images of nature and people and animals and other things that make a difference his poems are gentle pauses that allow us to pause and breathe and hopefully join his space - at least for the time we give to this fine little book. Poems that follow are but tidbits of the quiet moments within:

STARRY NIGHT
On such a night as this it seem
the bowl of heaven overflows with stars
whose bounty spills to earth
strewing my path with points of light
and though I know the little flashes
are only fireflies my spirit says
I walk among the stars.

On such a night as this it seems
the stars are messengers of joy
the universe luminous and serene
and so for a moment I forget
that for each ray of light somewhere
there is a bolt of cruelty and pain
the Gods cast down to rouse us
from each pleasant dream.

On such a night as this, I remember
that we are all born of stars
that we all live by their light
and warmth as I my love
live by yours.

FLOOD
We are inundated by images
why paint?

We are swamped by words
why write?

We are too many
why be?

There is plenty of time
to die.

Wyn addresses the seasons in lyrical poems, offers humor that is both merry and subtle enough to remind those of us who are swirling in the currents of life to laugh at ourselves, and while he is musing and tapping on our attention he also shares some photographs from his collectible portfolio that enhance the experience, the time we have been invited into his more quiet place. Grady Harp, October 12

I received a free copy of this item for review.

Thank you, Wyn, for sharing your poems and photographs with the world at last. I have several favorite poems in this book. The poems of nature, such as Wintersong "Who loves the winter loves with me it's chaste austerity. . ."; the poems about animals, such as Hey Pretty Kitty A Cat-atonic Lay "Hey Pretty kitty say what's on your play-list for toda...y"; And then there's the poem about a poem A Poem Is " A poem is diamond cut prose shaped to a pointed arrow sharp as winter wind surprising as tomorrow. . .". I love the way the pictures are matched up so well with the poems. This is an enjoyable read for the holidays and beyond.

I loved the "Love Calls" -- its metafores, sonnets and photos. It is a pleasure to read poems that appeal to senses and emotions instead of presenting riddles and puzzles as does so much of modern poetry.