WESTERN MASS REVIEWS

WESTERN MASS REVIEWS Poetry and Book reviews of poetry-related events and books by poets visiting or living in Western Massachusetts. Edited by Lori Desrosiers. Please send reviews to lori@thepoetrynews.com

Thursday, August 02, 2007

Book Review from Sympetalous

Namaste...
and I can't think of a better way
to share that Light than offering up an awesome book tout...
Your summer reading assignment is Eckhart Tolle's A New Earth
This cherubic bad boy from the NYTimes cherished list
takes on the deeply entrenched Ego-driven mindset
like some single seated Monk chanting tones of full Acceptance
in the looming face of the invading hordes of screaming Huns
Cue the thundering hooves amidst a swirling wind machine
and the rising, clearly resonant surround sound of AAHHHHH...

oh but then their horsies pull up and start to neigh
and somehow most seem to just sorta fade away...
while some now bow and graze in this future pasture
and as the dust clears to a cloudless cobalt sky
we see several former barbarous types
sitting zen in a semi-circle around
a still enchanting David Carradine
(who's working for scale cuz he loves the script!)
Quick zoom to ground level ultra close-up
of a Graaass-hoppahhhh about to launch...
Fade to soft focus earth-tones
after slo mo/strobe light effect
shows the sweeping arcing motion
of those spindley green appendages
having their springing way with the world