I couldn't stop once I got started!! I even had to tell my hubby I would call him back later! LOL
April 12, 200906:48 PM EDT (Updated: April 12, 200906:55 PM EDT)
Rating: 10/10
by Marge H.
Thanks to a recent article by Sheila Deeth, reviewing this same book, I had the opportunity to read this ebook. Here is a link to Sheila's article: Life in Poetry and Prose
Christian’s writing touched me. A few of his poems made me cry. I found his poetry about love and spirituality inspiring. I related to all of his poetry and prose in this book.
His love for God, life, his wife, and his children shines through.
In his forward, Christian explains his purpose for writing. He says he is, “filled with words, that once constructed, provide an outlet for a passion and message contained within them.”
He further states that “his desire and intent is to be an uplifting man and a man of uplifting.”
For me, he fulfilled his goals, admirably.
Christian Schaal's book, A Life in Poetry and Prose, delves
into the heartache of regret and the promise of hope. The book is divided into
three sections, and my favorite poem from the first is Sandcastle Life, filled
with my own shared images of castles built when I was a child. Schaal deftly
juxtaposes the innocence of childhood play with the way we hold our friends at
bay as adults, building moats and shoveling sand to keep us safe. The second part
of the book offers spiritual meaning to the first, and I particularly like the
short poem, Simple Gratitude, with its feeling of wind blowing over the
sand-dunes of my youth. In Lift Yourself, the line "your life is a diamond
/ though you see it as coal," stayed with me long after reading. Part
three is headed "Love and Relationship," and starts, incongruously,
with divorce. A backdrop of pain lends depth to the love in these poems, and to
the promise in The River and the Valley. My Essence Concealed speaks of hope
for so many who hide behind the secrets of their lives. And the final family
photograph brings me full circle to the joys of my own family relationships. A
lovely book Mr. Schaal, and I'm glad I read it.
Sheila Deeth
Author / Writer
Life in Poetry and Prose is wonderful. I do like the sincerity, depth and soul you present in the poetry written. I hope your sales go very well as I think a lot of people will enjoy it the same as I have done.
Anastasia
http://www.authormeetingplace.com
I couldn't stop once I got started!! I even had to tell my hubby I would call him back later! LOL
April 12, 200906:48 PM EDT (Updated: April 12, 200906:55 PM EDT)
Rating: 10/10
by Marge H.
Thanks to a recent article by Sheila Deeth, reviewing this same book, I had the opportunity to read this ebook. Here is a link to Sheila's article: Life in Poetry and Prose
Christian’s writing touched me. A few of his poems made me cry. I found his poetry about love and spirituality inspiring. I related to all of his poetry and prose in this book.
His love for God, life, his wife, and his children shines through.
In his forward, Christian explains his purpose for writing. He says he is, “filled with words, that once constructed, provide an outlet for a passion and message contained within them.”
He further states that “his desire and intent is to be an uplifting man and a man of uplifting.”
For me, he fulfilled his goals, admirably.
Christian Schaal's book, A Life in Poetry and Prose, delves
into the heartache of regret and the promise of hope. The book is divided into
three sections, and my favorite poem from the first is Sandcastle Life, filled
with my own shared images of castles built when I was a child. Schaal deftly
juxtaposes the innocence of childhood play with the way we hold our friends at
bay as adults, building moats and shoveling sand to keep us safe. The second part
of the book offers spiritual meaning to the first, and I particularly like the
short poem, Simple Gratitude, with its feeling of wind blowing over the
sand-dunes of my youth. In Lift Yourself, the line "your life is a diamond
/ though you see it as coal," stayed with me long after reading. Part
three is headed "Love and Relationship," and starts, incongruously,
with divorce. A backdrop of pain lends depth to the love in these poems, and to
the promise in The River and the Valley. My Essence Concealed speaks of hope
for so many who hide behind the secrets of their lives. And the final family
photograph brings me full circle to the joys of my own family relationships. A
lovely book Mr. Schaal, and I'm glad I read it.
Sheila Deeth
Author / Writer
Life in Poetry and Prose is wonderful. I do like the sincerity, depth and soul you present in the poetry written. I hope your sales go very well as I think a lot of people will enjoy it the same as I have done.
Anastasia
http://www.authormeetingplace.com
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