Title: It Starts Like This
Author: Shelby Leigh
Genre: Poetry
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Format: Paperback
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Synopsis from Goodreads:
After writing a poem a day for a year, Shelby Leigh decided to take her favorite works from the challenge and create her debut poetry collection. Beginning with heartbreak and loss and ending with closure and hope, It Starts Like This is the narrative of a girl learning to overcome and appreciate all aspects of life. This collection takes you on a journey through love, loss, grieving, and healing and will resonate with you long after you’ve turned the last page.
This is Shelby Leigh’s debut collection of poems. She started off by posting a poem every day in 2015. This collection has all her favorite poems.
I really liked this collection, Shelby has a mix of long poems and short poems too. So we see her craft in different types of poems. Since this is a collection we see different emotions conveyed through each poem. In some poems she talks about love, loss, healing, and hurt.
I feel like a lot of people can relate to this collection if they ever experienced someone hurting them.
Definitely a strong debut for the author, I would love to read more by her.
Some of my favorite poems:
Swearing
I swear
with every kiss
you leave words on my tongue
and every time you break away
I breathe a poem
into my lungs
Battle Scars
I can create a painting
from the freckles on your cheeks
or a song from your soft breaths on my neck
I can trace the scars on your thighs
with our legs intertwined
a mark of triumph not of failure
a memory of a war you fought with yourself
and won
Full Moon
today I noticed I am a lot
like the moon
ignored and unexplored when
I am barely there
just a sliver in the darkness
but when I am at my best
full and vibrant
that is when I am noticed
that is when the wolves howl
to feel alive
And that is it for this review! I would love to know what you think! Let’s chat in the comments =)
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Full Moon was one of my favourites too, I finished this collection last night. 🙂
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oh that’s awesome!!!
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I fell in love with Full Moon! What a powerful poem ❤
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yesssss!!!! ❤
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Smh thought I commented earlier today 🙈 I really like Battle Scars, thank you for sharing twin 😃💕
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lol no thank you!
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[…] It Starts Like This by Shelby Leigh ★★★★★ Genre: Poetry An amazing debut collection. Shelby wrote a poem every single day in 2015 and this collection shows some of her favorites. If you want to know more and read some of the poems, you can check out my review here. […]
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[…] my last book I read many weeks ago was It Starts Like This by Shelby Leigh and I have a full review here. This is a debut poetry collection and I thought it was great! 5 out of 5 stars […]
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