Akishe L. Jakha
Book Review: Potpourri Poesy
- Soyimla Akum & Inakali Assumi.
Dimapur:CyberWit.net, pp. 65.
Experiences convince us that society so devotionally rivers a great expectation on individuals; with regressive blood and emotion, inciting many disassociations and mystifications on the dreams, and aspirations of those involved individuals. And to read the poems of Inakali Assumi and Soyimla Akum in such an accepted domination over choices of life, channelize those closed and never realized objections. Their book Potpourri Poesy is not just another romance filled collection of poems, but it is an expression of their right observations and the experiences of many.
Inakali Assumi’s poems like, A lone wonderer, The Clown, and How are you? emulate how people lives isolation with such panache, also wording how virtue has been judged as inability (The Clown). Then there’s this representation of the veiled negligence of people in understanding other’s position in How are you?
Soyimla Akum as well in her poems is giving life to those similar emotions. Escape by Akum is a providence of reading that takes us to a place free from the human experiences, but also ends with the returning reality (helplessly conveying that freedom of such kind finds no ground to fall). Expectation by her will have to be the right poem every reading parent and individual should read. It’s an amazingly captured sentiment of every student. No intelligence can be determined by grade/marks! However, percentages speak in flesh and blood than ability or knowledge in our society. And she’s so exactly saying that in this poem.
Potpourri Poesy has no lofty offerings but it definitely has a heart of human. Written with no extravagant lexis has made it even more relatable to every quality of English speaking readers, also an expression of every poem’s passion through sketching is altogether another kind of treat for the readers. Assumi and Akum have given to the society such a pure work of art that seeks no personal attainment but freedom to many (as they read the poems). And this kind of work should be allowed to reach us because it not only teaches us but has the power to change us too. Potpourri Poesy is a universe for every regular individual who’s experiencing any tyranny.
