Review of Poems That Lose by Akif Kichloo

Book: Poems That Lose
Writer: Akif Kichloo 
Age: +16
Genre: Poetry, Life, Love, Death, Depression, Violence

“The opposite of grief is not laughter or happiness or joy. It is love, it is love, it is love.”

Akif Kichloo has an exquisite style of writing. His poems are the kind that gets you, it grasps you and let you feel the sentiments you never felt. ” I have a body too young
And a mind full of years”

Have you ever read a poetry that understands you? It makes you question thoughts that you kept well hidden in your core. “We are trained to live in the cages of our names.”

If you like poetry, it is a book you must read. There are many poems I loved in this books. Even the introduction is quite good, the poet, Akif Kichloo, asks us to understand his metaphors and artless facts. He uses metaphors in many of his poems. The one I liked the most was when he compared love rooted in pity with rain of fishes.

I won’t say this book is flawless. Being a teenager, I didn’t like the mature poems or violence mentioned. But, as he has mentioned in the introduction that he doesn’t want to talk about beauty and richness of our existence, but the dark side of life. Those nightmares and numbing thoughts that we are running from. I really think it’s worth a try, who knows you may become his fan….