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Shadows and Silhouettes
Received 5 out of 5 stars
Review:
Sharday Cage definitely dishes out The Taste of Chicago in her new poetic work called Shadows and Silhouettes. This Chicago
resident delivers flavorful pieces that allow the reader to digest every bit of
what makes her very passionate and purposeful about her craft. A craft that has
truly been perfected to the point that readers can close their eyes and feel
her words create poetic imprints on their spirit. These Imprints are in the
form of love, challenging relationships, and delightful misfortunes. Her
playful use of the word “Beautiful cacophony,” shows her skill in utilizing oxymora
to get her point across.
I truly enjoyed many
of Sharday’s poems and felt as though I was experiencing her life firsthand.
When reading, “Graffiti Mouth,” I thought of something so corrupt or disfigured
that no beauty could come from it. It brought to mind people who gossip about
other people and graffiti (Slander) their name on the ears of willing cohorts.
The poem was upfront, honest, and true to some societal norms. My favorite poem
was “Lover’s Cup.” I felt as though I was in Love’s Utopia, waiting to release
the most powerful energy in my body; love. I too wanted to “Lasso the moon or pluck
a star.” I wanted to sip from my “lover’s cup” and get drunk from my emotional
connection to him. The last poem, I really liked was called “Daddy.” Sharday
started off the poem by saying, “I was a daddy’s girl without the daddy.” The
poem focused on her imagination of a daddy that was so real that she would walk
hand-in-hand with him in the park. The poem changed with emotion as her daddy
reminded her of a ghost; “he came and went, he was here then gone.”
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