Colors Collected: Poetry Inspired By The Hues Of Life

This book, Colors Collected, is a polychromatic marvel using colors as ideas, ideals, and imaginative musings.Celaine Charles has gifted the world with a magnificent presentation of thoughts and revelations about nature, beauty, and colors with this poetry collection. The first poem “Green” is remarkable in its visualization of a car passenger noticing the passing landscape, (trees push past with urgency, stitch their hues together.) “The Violas Gave You Away” is amazing in its skill at portraying the width and breadth of the sky, (blue like the sky, painting horizons big enough to fall into.) “Shadows” is a brilliant write revealing the colorful aspects of shadows that I had never before imagined, but will now never forget. “Hopeful Insomnia” shows a gentle angst of laying awake at night. “Time Is Pale Yellow” has this beautiful phrase, (like sweetness slips through honeycomb.) “Fire and Chocolate” is amazing! “The Bees Know” is a lovely tribute to our little buzzy buddies. “Black Is The Night” and “Black Raven Eats The Sun” both read like prayers. “I Live In The Rain” surprises the reader with its wonderful, pleasing detour. “Poinsettia” is lovely in its spirituality.I highly recommend this book to anyone who appreciates great poetry.

Celaine Charles’s “Colors Collected – Poetry Inspired By The Hues of Life” is a magical journey through a world of colors as seen in the poet’s mind. There are colors of every mood and nuance of emotion to entice and entrance you.I feel in love with this book. With so many beautiful poems, it was hard to choose just a few to highlight.In ”Black Raven Eats the Sun” I can vividly picture the silhouetted raven’s mouth open with the setting sun in the background.“Black raven,tired of the day,used his beak to crack-to break the surfaceof setting sun.”“Time is Pale Yellow” evokes alluring imagery.“Time is pale yellow.like sweetness slips throughhoneycomb.All things goodnever lastinglong.”My favorite poem is “Patience.”“Patience is burnt orange;decalescentuntil it fadesbittersweet.”It is a book that you will want to pick up and read again and again, each time discovering new visions and feelings painted in each word.Ann Christine Tabaka – poet & writer

I came to know Celaine Charles and her work first through an online creativity group, and then by following her interesting and insightful blog posts.Being a “color person” myself, I gravitated to her poems that employed color as a construct. Her thoughts and observations in this wonderful debut poetry book speak about the world from a very personal perspective but also show a profound understanding of humans, relationships, and the recognition of beauty in the natural world. I love her sensitivity and how she puts words together in such an unusual and delightful way. So happy to be one of the first to own this volume of wonderful poems, and thrilled to recommend that you not hesitate for a moment to purchase it, too. Order it now and enjoy it always.

Celaine CharlesColours CollectedColours that reflect the emotions of lifeA wonderful book of poems with a beautiful linesTime Home:Tiny traces of hope freshen my soulThe bees know:I believe the bees knowDandelion:as night shades into dayOne can see it happen.Wise owl waits:deer cooled in gentle shade.The Pine: my hair ribbon loosened and fellGrowing up simply put, wonderful poem of lifeA Christmas season poemPoinsettia:such a beautiful poem Grows crimson under Seasons kissWhite Blossoms: a wonderful poem the continuation of the poets tribe :Stronger version of myselfThe Colors Of love: another gem the poets daughter

These poems really do capture the vibrant colors of nature that are all around us. After spending the past couple years living in a secluded cabin on the West Coast of the Olympic Peninsula I found myself enveloped with the beauty of nature but never able to quite capture those small sensations in writing, but Celaine's poems do just that. It's amazing reading these poems and having the colors that I collected from my own experiences of that rich forest rush back to me. Thank you for that. I will be recommending this book to family and friends.

Celaines poems capture every detail about the beauty in color. Every poem gives you more ways to appreciate color where ever you go and helps you see the light in even the darkest colors. Her poetry has given me a new way of seeing the world around me and let me see things I couldn’t before.