Rhyme Time - Poems with a message for you to read. Poems of truth that plant a seed. by Brendan Conboy




It doesn't seem proper, to write my own review. So instead, what I will do is post a review that someone else wrote on another site for this book and she made me cry.

In this assembly of short poems using ordinary, everyday words, Brendon has given us a raw collection carrying emotions, thoughts, and reflections on a journey of adventure that scales heights and plumbs depths with rare honesty and a rap artist’s punch.

There are loves songs, laments, cries of protest. Probing questions designed to make you think. Expressions of grief and delight, soaring hopes, dashing experiences, all grounded in reality, looking at the sometimes cruel parts of life we don’t want to acknowledge.

That’s when you remember the hurting parts of our world and are urged to question direction, purpose, identity and offer a prayer to find ways to make a difference.

Buzzing throughout these words is the light bulb realisation fresh from personal discovery that these words of ours have power, words are power, and they come with purpose. That purpose is reinforced with rhyme and rhythm, leaving a resonance within beating a soldier’s muster to join the fight for life.

That’s because Brendon longs to share what has helped and saved him from destruction and despair, from crippling traps and snares, from lockdown to breakout, to burst through into a love of life, with a gift of hope to enjoy a world of challenge.

With and without doubt, carefully and recklessly explored, Brendon rejoices to chart the many ways relationship with his Creator has made all the difference. The relationship factor with Jesus simmers in each and every one of these poems and
their cutting edge reaches out offering a lifeline, a telescope, a magnifying glass, a dare and most of all a companion’s hand along the way.

Here, let the ordinary become extraordinary and in Brendon’s own words “take time to care…be valued, belong”

Elaine Venning
November 2020




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Rhyme Time - Poems with a message for you to read. Poems of truth that plant a seed.