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Dark Valley Observing
Aladdin Ayesh
Dark Valley Observing is an act of observing people,
things and self. It varies from the very dark over charged feelings such as The
Long Road To Nothingness
to the light hearted poems like Hello World. It also includes the romantic
almost silly poems like Smiling? to the self-contradictory poems like Falling Asleep,
Falling Awake.
Dark Valley Observing shares one thing with Aladdin_s
first collection Blue Voice that is meaning is a feeling which the reader interprets.
There is no pre-set agenda or pre-coded message. Instead, it is a simple,
straight and sometimes lengthy talking of events, thoughts, reflections and
imagery.
Dark Valley Observing also represents Aladdin_s first attempts
to experiment with form. Aladdin uses capitalization, indentation and mid
sentence breaks to force a particular form of reading, pauses and esthetic
layout. Some of the poems attempt to please the senses of sight and sound
whilst others attempt to shock and force the reader to think.
Dark Valley Observing expects you as a reader to take
on each poem and determine its meaning. It expects you to dress each poem with
your experience and reflect on that experience from the poem as well as
reflecting on the poem from your experience. Dark Valley Observing is a book of poetry to be adopted
by the reader.