Review To the Moon Charlz Dela Cruz

This book deserves the Nobel Prize for literature. I am showing my honest review about To the Moon, a poem written by a lawyer, a poet and ghostwriter Charlz Dela Cruz.

As soon as I read the first verses, I fell in love with this book. The words of this author are pure and clear poetry, a heavenly homage to life and love. Indeed, unlike other poems, the author does not turn his verses to death or to self destructive thoughts, but to the joy of living. Joy and happiness springs everywhere in this book,  in rhymes, verses and sentences and even though , unfortunately, poetry is being overlooked nowadays, because human beings lost the true meaning of life, this book must be absolutely read!

While I was reading it, I could perceive the nuances and the sound of these words. I also realized for the very first time in my life that good poetry is also possible  in English.

As an Italian native speaker, indeed, usually I read poems in Italian, but thanks to this book, I figured out that English is another good language to write poetry. Maybe this is simply a great writer, but I can assure I never read an excellent poem like this.

To the Moon is a dedication to a female character, perhaps a woman and as the subtitle reads, it is also a collection of love poems ( nearly 80) thrown at the Moon.  Only in the final poems, the author shows verses, which are clearly  dedicated To the Moon, depicted, here,  as a charming woman. Many final verses are dedicated to the soul.

Read a few verses together with me :
Together, my friend,
Beneath the curious stars
We will lie on the grass
And we will stretch open the sky
With all the laughter and tears in the world
To the very last drop
Of life.

Or these:
How I love you — you tread on my dreams
that you levitate in moonlight
like a white lily risen from the flesh of the ocean
into my sunrise
and like the subtle current that moves all the planets
you move my heart
that is always within your heart
in the boundless orbit
of your beautiful mystery.

The first ones belong to the poem Dear Stranger, the second ones, to the poem How I love you.
Don’t feel as if these words were talking to your heart?
Feel their soft sound, their fabulous tenderness.
These are not only words, but medicine for your soul.

I felt relaxed while I was reading them, I forgot my grief, my inner sorrow, I came to live again.
Yes, my dear readers, this is the right way to write poetry.

Here is another excerpt:

I have plucked a thousand flowers

I have plucked a thousand flowers
But you are the rose
That blooms inside my heart
And within your bud
Is the beauty of all the flowers.
Or I know a woman
And while lovers dance
In the night
Eye to eye, chest to chest
Amidst the explosion of a billion stars
Love whispers: She is
What the moon has always meant.

In all this simplicity is all the greatness of a poem.
Charlz dela Cruz is a great modern poet and I can’t help but giving five stars to this unforgettable poem that has been capable to heal my inner wounds and my sad soul.

I have nothing to add, only I want you to promise to buy this book.

It is available in Kindle edition and it has a price of one dollar, more or less.

Foreign readers can buy the book at Amazon.com, while European readers at Amazon.uk.

Anyway, since this is a digital book, European readers can dowload it at Amazon.com, also.
Now, I also want you to leave your promise through a comment.
Will you read this poetry book?
Please let me know. Thanks