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Let it Flow
When inspiration strikes, there's no choice but to write. You become the instrument through which fears and dreams, hopes and frustrations, and thoughts hidden from the world all flow – cathartically – onto pages that reflect snapshots of life.
“Let it Flow” captures a journey of poetic self-expression through the author's twenties and thirties – evolving from an insecure young man, through marriage, fatherhood, and the toils of adult responsibility.
Coupled with spiritual reflections on life and the world we live in, this collection hopes to inspire, uplift, and benefit all who browse its pages.
“Let it Flow” captures a journey of poetic self-expression through the author's twenties and thirties – evolving from an insecure young man, through marriage, fatherhood, and the toils of adult responsibility.
Coupled with spiritual reflections on life and the world we live in, this collection hopes to inspire, uplift, and benefit all who browse its pages.
195 pages, Kindle Edition
First published November 26, 2019
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About the author
Yacoob Manjoo
5 books2 followersYacoob is a South African writer, blogger, and poet. He's published two collections of poetry and prose, and his work has been featured in numerous print and online publications.
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July 20, 2021
This 2019 collection of 50-plus poems, meditations, reflections and essays takes the reader on a journey through different life stages, spiritual quests and idle moments that is rich in both content and wordplay.
Yacoob has a talent for finding the right phrase to capture a certain mood or memory, as well as a rare ability to deliver powerful messages without banging the reader over the head. I particularly like this passage from the aptly titled "You Suck!," dedicated to the news industry:
"You pump out words and words and
words;
Inviting the masses to addiction;
twenty four-hour news channels,
up-to-the-minute website content,
Inescapable posters, boldly spewing your
headlines from every lamp post --
into our streets,
into our minds,
into our hearts."
But there are also much gentler works, in which we are reminded of the many blessings we as humans receive daily from nature, God, family, and the normal ebbs and flows of life itself. This is the kind of book you return to every so often, when you need to be reminded of the possibilities of life, and the endless journey we are all on to find meaning in it.
Yacoob has a talent for finding the right phrase to capture a certain mood or memory, as well as a rare ability to deliver powerful messages without banging the reader over the head. I particularly like this passage from the aptly titled "You Suck!," dedicated to the news industry:
"You pump out words and words and
words;
Inviting the masses to addiction;
twenty four-hour news channels,
up-to-the-minute website content,
Inescapable posters, boldly spewing your
headlines from every lamp post --
into our streets,
into our minds,
into our hearts."
But there are also much gentler works, in which we are reminded of the many blessings we as humans receive daily from nature, God, family, and the normal ebbs and flows of life itself. This is the kind of book you return to every so often, when you need to be reminded of the possibilities of life, and the endless journey we are all on to find meaning in it.
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