Argo Spier also wrote a wonderful blurb about my writing, which can be found on my page at his site.
Laala Kashef Alghata lives and studies in Bahrain.
Yellow Sand, her present collection of verse, portrays her as a meticulous observant of the world around her. With full bodied verse she charters her sharp observances and describes the things and occurrences that surrounds her. And always there is reflection of her inner position in relation to the events that take place.
Yellow Sand takes the reader on a tour of tranquility and shows him with very clear transparency where the poet stands with her inner feelings. Playing with single themes and using modern metaphors, she describes the universe as it opens up to her. Topics such as hope, the absolve of absence and the cure for love, that is the duality of her love affair with the world she lives in and the love she experiences for the absent yet always calling Muse, give Yellow Sand a universality that transcends her own base locality.
Verse such as the following make of Laala Kashef Alghata an up-coming young poet of great promise. The reader will find her work accessible and quite enjoyable.
'Distance means
my fingers pressing
melodies with keys
instead of into your arms
as I pull you into my embrace.
Distance is
a form
of torture.
Distance can
be overcome.'
-Argo Spier
My page at the ArgoBoat.
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