“It’s all a vicious cycle,
this karmic game we play.
We burn the ones we claim to love,
and pack it up as fate.
We see our future calling,
we all try to look away.
We say life’s not fair and we don’t care,
the past decides our fate.
But before you were mistreated
and prayed for a fresh start.
You knew that God was in your mind,
and love was in your heart.” – Matt Buonocore
Waves Of Truth, Book 3 of The Divine Ties Collection is a self- help poetry book that takes the reader on a journey beyond the mind and into the way of the heart.
Waves Of Truth is a book of poems and affirmations to awaken the soul. Each poem provides a new vibratory experience that guides the reader towards spiritual growth. This book is my journey from awakening to the present day. The book is meant as a catalyst for spiritual growth, the goal being to ignite the fire that lies dormant. We are all called to serve, to serve ourselves and then the world. Let this be a message to all that would choose the path of service, the true path. As each fear disintegrates we walk closer to the truth of our nature, and this is my truth.
WHAT READERS ARE SAYING
“I love the author’s honesty in his poetry. It is powerful and moving. It helps connect all of us going through tough times but trying to grow from it. I highly recommend this book and this author.” – Laura
“I’ve been following Matt for quite a long time now, and I’ve witnessed his spirituality blossom first hand. In a world that has sadly become cynical, I have found this mans heart to be gold. His works come from the heart and although they’re many books out there that have the same type of premise, this book resonated with my heart. It’s a great read as a whole, but could also be read as a page a day for a daily dose of positive vibes. Something many could use in a world that is full of stress. All of Mathews book are a must read!” – Jorge
“Relevant messages through poems. A lost art of rhythm and rhyme deftly bringing life’s thoughts to fore. A nice break for the avid reader.” – Judith
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Reviews:
" It is good to see rhyme and cadence in effective use, though it also contains some truly odd use of language."
Reviewer: RhymeHunter for Bookangel.
The majority of this collection of Matt Buonocore's poems are themed around love and relationships, renouncing old ties of a child to their parents for the love and support of an adult companion, and the relationship to that companion through thick and thin.
The poems each begin on a new page with titles in enlarged header text at the top although there is an oddity on page twelve, 'The Truth of It', where the title is not correctly aligned. Centering the text for every poem is an unusual formatting choice, but one that is not overly distracting. The Table of Contents is at the front, and while not linked to the Kindle Menu it does link to each poem for ease of reference. Alas, there is no return link from the poem, but no one is perfect.
Some of these poems are to be fair, rants against life that put me in mind of teen writings, such as Dear Mother, a poem that reads like a slammed door, albeit a well-deserved one. However when he hits the mark, Matt Buonocore can hit hard. Back to Life can be read with an implication of child loss that makes it heartbreaking. Whether it was his intention or not, I salute him for it.
The poems are freestyle, but Mr. Buonocore uses cadence and rhyme or quasi-rhyme throughout for emphasis which creates a lyrical feel to the prose which is utterly lacking in many modern poems. However that is not always a benefit when it comes at the cost of audience or sense. Some language had me reaching for a dictionary, such as the lovely phrasing: 'sooth is truth' which is lyrical but can mean either 'real is truth' or 'smooth is truth'. In context, neither truly fit within the poem. I have never seen 'reniform' (def. shaped like a kidney, adj.) used in a poem before and again, in the context, it makes no sense.
I find that as I grow old I have less tolerance for spelling mistakes. In same cases punctuation is simply missing, such as page 7's use of "deaths[sic] persuasion". While the abbreviation of words, such as e'en for even, is a staple of poetry, simply missing punctuation can be distracting. I found no other such examples, so I may be being unreasonably fussy to highlight this.
While this is not a collection I would have picked up, it is not one I regret reading. It is good to see rhyme and cadence in effective use, and an expanded vocabulary, even if the poems themselves are not ones that I would long remember.
Reader of Matt Buonocore's poetry should get this collection for completion's sake if nothing more. Other poetry readers should consider it while it is free as a chance to decide if his other works are for you.
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