The words used in the poems clearly show that the writer is a true lover of words with a unique....
POETRY REVIEW
Book: Rubies from my dusty closet
Author: Javeria Hayat Khan
Reviewed by: Us poets
The words used in the poems clearly show that the writer is a true lover of words with a unique ability of expressing powerful emotions using so simple yet so beautiful words. These words have both magic and power to unlock the doors of imagination of the readers. Most of the words of the poems are teeming with darkness, pain and melancholy. For example, Paranoia is imaginative and painful elaboration of pessimism and hopelessness.
Javeria’s words evoke an imagery that’s rare to come by in poems nowadays. She uses the details to empower her words to form poetry that not just touches the heart, but takes the reader on a journey. We see her break and grow, and eventually find herself. Her poetry is definitely worth investing one’s time as she makes us feel the emotion she’s experiencing. I wish her the best of luck for this book and hope that she keeps creating and cannot wait to go on her journey with her!
Javeria shares her experience of dealing with a broken heart and through her poems she has showcased her ability to move the reader with the use of poignant words and poetic devices. For example, in “Scarcity”, she clearly expressed her disappointment in how simplicity is not valued nowadays and how materialism has gained an upper hand over the true essence of life.
Her poems are delightfully expressive. Despite being written mostly in the third person, they’re quite personal in nature. Therefore, the blend of the antithesis gives her poetry a bodacious touch. Furthermore, she uses images so exceptionally well that not even a single image seems to go off on a tangent from the central idea of a poem and they are used where their use is crucial to the craft. These images, found in her poems, are quite unfeigned and they bravely bear, with the help from figures quite conspicuous, the sudden pangs of mesomorphic thought. Moreover, there’s show-more-tell-less appeal to her poems, which serves well to the readers own fancy. The perceptible traces of “Gothic romance’’ and “Existentialism’’ are also present because of the use of a certain kind of imagery and thought at several places. Her poetry is like a scented breath of spring, all geared up to proffer feature to the featureless; soul to the soulless, on earth and beyond.
Candid and honest, words by Javeria Hayat don’t hide behind veils. She doesn’t shy away from delivering her most authentic thoughts in their organic form. Using raw emotions that leave an impact, her poems force you to stop and think. Using social issues as satire and having the courage to question the premeditated perceptions about various fragments of our being, she tries to depict everything for what it truly is. For a budding artist to be able to create that awe-inspiring feeling, speaks volumes for her talent. Reading some of her work shows that she’s a poet with a lot of undiscovered potential.
The voice in the poetry is deep, dreamy and jazzy. The usage of symbolic words and phrases where every person can depict different meaning related to his or her life makes the poetry narrative empathic and trustworthy. The emotional ride which a person undergoes while reading such tidbits is really astonishing and plausible.
Somewhere between the lines a tinge of Sufism is also found especially in Rhapsody: A Fairy’s Dance which shows the ideas of the poetry are deep covered in many layers and can be uncovered with surprisingly different meanings. The chosen words show challenges of a woman to grow in our society. Her narrative is a depiction of how gender inequality persists in our society and its consequences on psyche of woman who have undergone through such torment.
However, my personal favorite among all is Refined where she blended the strokes into an abstract art and let the readers decide what they can see.
“A skinny hatchling, naked and fragile
One fears to touch or love until
Bright feathers sprout to beautify it”
