Felicity

this is like a close to 4 stars book, mostly due to its pretty imagery of the nature and those really grasp me! but considerably looking at the messages these poems were to convey, are mostly about love and a search for meaning, which might not be a fit for my taste and the questions raised upon to question faith, as humans did, is an ample reflection on how the technological, scientific progress help shape those beliefs, and to address them would be a great topic to set foot in. however my reasons are that they are sort of just a bit explicit and the wordings are not that powerful to me, which is a bit of a downside as towards the end i think i'm just sort of reading affirmation of the lovelies in the world—which is great, but it sort of becomes a bit of a repetition and cliche, as it could very fit into that category of hopeless romantic. don't get me wrong, i love romantics, but perhaps some more sadness is needed in here to layer up the effects of the poem. here's a bit of the quotes i love.

“i have refused to live
locked in the orderly house of
   reasons and proofs.
the world i live in and believe in
is wider than that. and anyway,
   what's wrong with Maybe?”

“there is nothing more pathetic than caution
when headlong might save a life,
even, possibly, your own.”