The Weights We Carry by C D Seventeen

 The Weights We Carry by C D Seventeen



22 poems interspersed with photographs and artistry


My thanks to C.D. Seventeen for sending me a copy to review and to Literally PR for inviting me to take part on the Book Tour.


Synopsis

I want to leave this world behind, 

jump on a bike,

go on a journey without others,

dive deep into the self,

and let the weight of my human identity dissolve into the wind.

In the wilderness, I see my emotions floating in silence, and I repaint

 them with my own colour. I hear the purpose of my life defined by others

 washed away in the rivers, and I rewrite them with my own melody.

I taste the bitterness of my history

 while I bury my sorrows under the pink-coloured beach on a remote island.

 My past and future end in the pouring rain 

while I merge my soul with the spirit of the sky creatures.

Then I know what it means to be free...





My Review

This is a thought provoking collection of 22 poems which give an insight into what the author was feeling at certain points on her travels . Each one is a short moment in time that has you stopping and thinking about the thoughts, views and processes that take place before it is written down on paper as a memory of a time and a place in a beautiful , haunting landscape.

These poems should be read, and thought about, individually. Each one a whole in it's own right and not to be rushed and skimmed over. Take time over the photographs and allow yourself to think about the landscape, the church, the people , the road you find yourself looking at

Read, digest and picture the landscape and above all else keep this little book handy to pick up and read individual poems at random.




About the Author

C.D. Seventeen is originally from China. She moved to the Uk at the age of 17 on her own to study psychology at King's College London,

She was born in a place called "the south of the clouds" ( Yunnan province of China), an are with drastic diversity of landscape, religion, culture, music and arts

Apart from writing poems C.D. Seventeen is also a techno music artist, DJ, and painter.




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