Poetry Review: A Song Beneath the Silence by Apryl Skies

Reading Apryl Skies' poetry allows for a sense of calm yet cathartic understanding of nature and human ideals. Her paint fills the canvas of emotion

Poems are the songs we sing silently to ourselves when music is either unavailable or inappropriate. The thoughts we contain in mind which can only scream and bite through our cheeks to get outside of our bodies; these are the images which Apryl Skies can collect and extract providing some sort of catharsis to all who read her work. From the concise opening prologue, a landscape of possibility lays before the reader and allows for a journey of art as well as understanding of the self. What is poetry except for a way to connect with those often indistinguishable ideals creative types extrapolate through music, painting and writing. Apryl's ability to decipher meaning from words appears as easily as identifying “can” in the word canvas. The use of form poetry to accentuate imagery can be seen in poems including “...like rain” which looks on the page as rain sprinkling from the sky. The section labeled “Mythica” contains some prose poetry which tell more of a story unclouded by obscure details. The simplicity and peace conveyed in “Defining the Stone” will stay with the reader and, perhaps, be passed on to children and families. Apryl Skies demonstrates her versatile skill as a poet with a fine blend of poems for those both familiar and unfamiliar with the nature of poetry. Read these to relax, in or out of order. Share them with friends or take from them some semblance of enlightened understanding. After all, poetry is the catharsis from one shared for the benefit of all and that is what April Skies has captured. “A Song Beneath Silence” is available on Amazon as well as the website: www.edgarallanpoet.com