Rogue Thoughts by Neal Mason

 Rogue Thoughts by Neal Mason | Book Review

The poems encourage you to reevaluate your preconceptions while having fun because they are thought-provoking without being didactic. His words stay with you, whether he's making fun of human eccentricities or resolving conflicts in life. I kept reading some of the pieces again, and each time, I learnt something new.

Neal Mason gave it a sense of ease. Despite their profound content, his poems don't feel particularly weighty. There are humorous lines as well as many that simply cause you to pause and reflect.
While some poems made me laugh, others caused me to reflect more profoundly on the world and myself. Some of them felt real, but in a weird way.

A few verses that piqued me:

🌷"Heavy in heart

but compliant, obeying heaven

instead of conscience, common sense

or human compassion,

atmosphere tense,"

🌷It’s far worse if your mother believes and says

the wrong boy died.

This is a curse. If there’s no remedy soon,

the child’s development too

was on that hearse. To grow is healing? The child thinks, not

with logic or experience,

only with feeling, yet a strategy evolves:" 

It's the type of collection that can be read all at once and offers rewards for returning time and time again, each time revealing something you missed the first time. The fact that whimsy and truth continue to collide in shockingly honest ways made me lean into the peculiar comfort of its contrasts.

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