isabellesbooks's review
4.0
I love The Poetry Pharmacy: I love the concept, I love the execution, I love how it speaks to my soul and tells me what I need to hear. This particular book in the otherwise fantastic duology gets one less star than its predecessor because I noticed some poems were repeated from The Poetry Remedy and I wished for new content (is this just a problem for us Americans?). I also found myself completely skipping over the explanations of each emotion and just reading the poems. But the poems, they were beautiful!
talus's review
5.0
A charming addition to The Poetry Pharmacy collection. Like its predecessor, The Poetry Pharmacy Returns is a collection of poems to soothe and inspire the reader through even the most difficult of feelings and circumstances.
I appreciated the inclusion of poets from a variety of periods and cultures. Again, as with the first published Poetry Pharmacy, Sieghart introduced me to many lovely poems and new-to-me poets. I particularly enjoyed "Ghazal", which was prescribed for Constant Striving, Materialism, and Feelings of Inadequacy:
Ghazal
However large earth's garden, mine's enough.
One rose and the shade of a vine's enough.
I don't want more wealth, I don't need more dross.
The grape has its bloom and it shines enough.
Why ask for the moon? The moon's in your cup,
a beggar, a tramp, for whom wine's enough.
Look at the stream as it winds out of sight.
One glance, one glimpse of a chine's enough.
Like the sun in bazaars, streaming in shafts,
any slant on the grand design's enough.
When you're here, my love, what more could I want?
Just mentioning love in a line's enough.
Heaven can wait. To have found, heaven knows,
a bed and a roof so divine's enough.
I've no grounds for complaint. As Hafez says,
isn't a ghazal that he signs enough?
(Mimi Khalvati, after Hafez)
I appreciated the inclusion of poets from a variety of periods and cultures. Again, as with the first published Poetry Pharmacy, Sieghart introduced me to many lovely poems and new-to-me poets. I particularly enjoyed "Ghazal", which was prescribed for Constant Striving, Materialism, and Feelings of Inadequacy:
Ghazal
However large earth's garden, mine's enough.
One rose and the shade of a vine's enough.
I don't want more wealth, I don't need more dross.
The grape has its bloom and it shines enough.
Why ask for the moon? The moon's in your cup,
a beggar, a tramp, for whom wine's enough.
Look at the stream as it winds out of sight.
One glance, one glimpse of a chine's enough.
Like the sun in bazaars, streaming in shafts,
any slant on the grand design's enough.
When you're here, my love, what more could I want?
Just mentioning love in a line's enough.
Heaven can wait. To have found, heaven knows,
a bed and a roof so divine's enough.
I've no grounds for complaint. As Hafez says,
isn't a ghazal that he signs enough?
(Mimi Khalvati, after Hafez)
om_nom_nomigon's review
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
relaxing
sad
tense
slow-paced
3.5
zavatskajam's review
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
5.0
The first ever poetry collection to bring tears to my eyes.