Me and My Thoughts
Diary/Poetry Logs from My Realist View
Many of us have quiet, lonely moments when we can reflect on an event, personal experience, tragedy, stories in the news, nostalgia, memories resurfacing, sad depressing moments, and happier times, too. What makes Me and My Thoughts interesting is that it is different, but not uncommon.
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Ekayen Essien
Author
Ekayen Essien enjoys reading, writing, poetry, watching movies, documentaries, reality shows, and motivational shows and speeches. She also likes fashion, dancing, shopping, selling on Ebay, web surfing and researching. She has a freelance writing diploma, a hospitality management associate’s degree, and a business management bachelor’s degree from Penn Foster College.
“Life is a series of daily events, that makes us love, laugh, cry, be happy, sad, question, wonder, explore and ultimately find the meaning in existing. It can also influence us to be better or worse human beings who want to fix what is broken, leave it as it is, or turn us into destroyers or indifferent. The capacity lies uniquely different in each person, but it always starts with our thoughts.”
— Ekayen Essien
Me and My Thoughts
Diary/Poetry Logs from My Realist View
Many of us have quiet, lonely moments when we can reflect on an event, personal experience, tragedy, stories in the news, nostalgia, memories resurfacing, sad depressing moments, and happier times, too. What makes Me and My Thoughts interesting is that it is different, but not uncommon. These poems touch on moments many people have had at some stage in their life or might be experiencing right now, and they can relate to what Ekayen Essien was going through when she wrote each poem.
Me and My Thoughts helps us remember that we are not alone during those quiet storms in our hearts and minds, and we can relieve a lot of stress by just writing down what we are going through.
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Book Review
Review of Me and my Thoughts
by Booklover Becca | Online Book Club
In Me and My Thoughts, author Ekayen Essien stays in-line with their self-described “realist view”. At roughly one poem per page, the author explores daily thoughts that are both specific to their perspective and broad enough that many readers would be able to relate to Essien’s perspective. Essien explores topics that range from romance, to race, to thoughts on the meaning behind colors. Some poems rhyme while others feel as if they have no rhythm and are simply the author’s thoughts strung together. Whatever type of poem a reader is searching for, it can be found here in Essien’s poetry log.
One major positive aspect of this poetry book is that, although the author describes their work as realist, this does not mean that it lacks emotion. The author conveys strong emotion through very descriptive language. One example of this is a line in the poem titled “About to Rain” which goes, “The wind blows with anger and the trees wave with no sense of direction (page 6).” I have seen the beginning of many storms, but I have never thought of such an expression of the wind and the trees.
The author has the ability to make me feel emotions right alongside them. There are many poems that express hope at potential romance and I feel hopeful with them. Then the tone turns sad and lonely as the author describes the heartache of being abandoned by love. Because these poems are written over the years with large gaps in between, we see only glimpses into their life and how it’s passing.
I found no negative aspects. Poetry can be difficult to judge at times, but I truly find only positive aspects. The author leaves all their emotion on the pages.
I rate this book four out of four stars. This rating is based on the above positive aspects and generally, the power that the poems have to evoke emotion. I found some typos, but not enough to take away a star rating and, therefore, believe this book to be professionally edited.
There is some explicit language and some vaguely described sexual scenes. Although it’s not written in an outright manner, I would still recommend this book to mature readers only. Of those readers, though, I would say this book has a poem for everyone, even if they’re only looking to be entertained or to see daily life through a new lens. The author does a wonderful job providing an opportunity to help readers look around them and see their world through new descriptors.