Come Closer to Yourself

Description

In this exceptional anthology of poems “Come Closer to Yourself” by Itumeleng Surprise Segaloe, the poet, indeed, does give the world and his readers a real surprise, a pleasant surprise and a treat to share in his undoubted talent. He asserts his arrival in a slim volume of poems that are pregnant with hope and optimism for a better world.

Every poem seems to be born with bountiful endowment of extra sensory perceptions and sensibilities. The poet offers himself and bares his soul to the world in relation to his environment and its people and the whole eco-system. As a result, each poem resounds with its own vibrancy. It scintillates with its own hue like a multifaceted gem casting its iridescence to dazzle the eye, to sooth a bruised soul in pain and give hope where there is despair.

The skills of an artist are manifest in how he handles his medium. In this instance the poet is more than just an artist. He is a “craftist” – a combination of a craftsman and artist – who knows how to carve a verbal image from words to create a vivid picture in mind’s eye. The rest is left on the reader’s imagination to conjure up what that elusive search is when we set out to find the meaning of life and find a divergence of answers and definitions. However, no one disagrees that LIFE is the most mysterious four-letter word which has intrigued poets and philosophers since the beginning of time.