Science: The Stars in Me are the Stars in You.

by Robert M. Drake

This book employs the comparative method to understand societal collapses to which environmental problems contribute to the common youth and society as a whole. We all are broken and broken is its own kind of beautiful.

Genres: Poetry, Romance, Nonfiction, Adult

164 pages, Paperback

First published March 31, 2014

About the author

https://www.instagram.com/rmdrk/

Reviews

[Kenya Wright]

 

She was broken from moment to moment

watching her world collide 

she felt lost inside herself.

She fell apart for a passion

that flamed beneath her.

She waited

and died a hundred times, 

it dripped from her pores.

The moment she let go,

she soared

over the stillness

like the star she was born to be.

(A poem from Science.)

 

I'm a fan of poetry.  Good poems teach me lessons in writing.  

A poet must be concise, descriptive, and emotional all in a few lines. 

 

That's a pretty goddamn awesome skill to have. 

 

So . . . I'm always reading poetry. 

 

And Robert M. Drake has always had a luscious way with words. 

 

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How could I live above the water 

or breathe under it?

How could I swim in darkness consumed in an ocean of you?

Falling or flying towards you.

Losing or finding myself in you

and beauty was never the word to catch all that you are,

for now i know

the means

never the word

to catch all that you are

for now i know the means

of the infinite

and it all starts and ends with you.

I definitely enjoyed the poetry! I found the author just from walking around Wynwood in Miami and seeing his poetry written on the sidewalks. Later, I googled him and found his books.

This one is definitely a keeper!! I give it FIVE STARS!!

[Julia Sapphire]

3.5 out of 5 stars

This collection was lovely. Very short but full of wonderful photography and small poems.

[Christina (Christina's Book Corner)]

Book review - Science by Robert M. Drake November 5-6This book employs the comparative method to understand societal collapses to which environmental problems contribute to the common youth and society as a whole. We all are broken and broken is its own kind of beautiful.Review- This book of poetry was beautiful and I connected to allot of the poems some made me cry I highly recommend you pick this up.

[Sine Nomine]

I don't even know how this book made it to get published. It is crap and has grammatical mistakes.

[Samantha Scherps (Samantha's Boekenhoekje)]

Why is this book random stock photos with quotes you could find on a cringy facebookpage? I didn't get it, is this poetry?

[Jennifer Cicchetto]

Nice book of poetry by R.M. Drake. My second one. I enjoyed the “deep feels” invoked via these short poems. A lot were relatable to the times I’ve experienced deep feelings of love in my life, and I got misty-eyed a couple times.
I became drawn to R.M. Drake via Facebook posts showing soft black and white photographs of short love poems typed on beautifully textured parchment via an old fashioned typewriter. Both of the books I’ve read do not have the artwork that drew me into those Facebook posts, and some of the magic was lost for me. I wish for there to be a best-of anthology released some day with that artwork!

[Salam G]

First book I’ve read for the booktubeathon! I bought this book because it was super short and easy to read and by reading it I have completed two challenges
1) Read a book with green on the cover
2) Read a book wearing the same hat the entire time
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my review: it’s full of pictures and short poems, it was good, if you want to read a very short book you can read in an hour get this, it’s very tumblry and artsy.

[Natasha Nurse, Esq.]

There's something equally beautiful and tragic when it comes to love. How do you express that in writing? Read this book and learn from a Master 🙌🏾

[Tori]

~4.5~

The only reason it isn't a 5 star is because of the design. While I love the page design themselves, the words are too big for the punctuation marks. Being that the words are in all caps, there were a few times I wouldn't see the marks and keep reading. So I had to re-read quite a few of the poems over while paying attention to the marks which distracts from the poem.
Still another fantastic book by Robert M Drake!!

[mel]

As soon as I got it i started reading it and it was finished in around 15 minutes. I really loved it and it was as good as I expected. I've seen a few things from his instagram and I've always loved his words. So happy I finally have read one of his work. Though it was too short wish we had more poems per pages!

[Michelle]

Deep philosophical quotes about life and love...very relatable. Love the photography/artwork on every page. One star taken off for grammatical errors. The author needs an editor. Beautiful nonetheless.

[Shaikha]

Hold up a minute, am I missing something here? Is this poetry of some sort that I couldn't recognize?
Though, truthfully, the structure is immensely similar to those pictures with cliche quotes in them..




um, I.. eh?

[Tann Medi]

mi primer libro del 2017 y fue hermoso
es mi segundo libro de robert M Drake y sigue sorprendiendome
se lee en apenas un suspiro, las fotografias y los poemas son incriblemente sublimes
me hicieron sentir un tanto nostalgica y muchos de ellos me llegaron directo al corazon
ALTAMENTE RECOMENDABLE

[AJ Perez]

Beautiful in words and in photograph!

[Lindsey Berkowitz]

Sometimes I think that the words in books speak the loudest. Although this may be incredibly selfish, I feel like this book was written for me. I live for these written treasures.

[Alia Alneyadi]

As well as all of Robert M Drake books, this book is so good 😩
I finished reading it in 20 minutes and I absolutely recommend it for you 💛

[Stephen]

This book is every basic Instagrammer's dream.

I picked up the book because it was free on Kindle Unlimited and I have seen quotes from "R.M. Drake" all over Instagram and thought to myself, "Who is this dude and why is everyone so deep all of a sudden?" Perhaps I wasn't in the right frame of mind or perhaps I'm just not profound but when I started I honestly laughed out loud. It's a collection of Instagram captions with similar pictures to match.

I did like some of the quotes and I do think that if I was feeling in a super deep mood and I read this it might have resonated a lot more. Some of the text is inspiring and some are laughable. I finished it in about an hour which was cool. Read it or don't, I doubt R.M. Drake would care.

Here are some choice examples:

"BUT DEAR, DON'T BE AFRAID OF LOVE IT'S ONLY MAGIC."

"TO LOVE IS TO SOAR IN THE WILD UNEXPECTEDLY"

"SHE NEEDE THE CHAOS WITHIN HER IN ORDER TO DISCOVER THE EXTRAORDINARY THAT NO MAN COULD EVER REACH"

"USE LOVE AS THE ONLY INSTRUMENT TO QUESTION THE WORLD AROUND YOU"

"OH DARLING, HOW THE STARS INSIDE ME BURN FOR YOU."

"WE ARE THE SOCIETY WE SO DESPERATELY BLAME FOR ALL OUR FAULTS BURIED BENEATH OUR SCARS."

"WE SWALLOWED THE CHAOS BECAUSE WE KNEW WE DIDN'T WANT TO BE ORDINARY."

"TO BE HUMAN IS TO BE BROKEN AND BROKEN IS ITS OWN KIND OF BEAUTIFUL"

"A TAMED WOMAN WILL NEVER LEAVE HER MARK IN THE WORLD."

[Joanna]

I have mixed feelings about these poems? thoughts? aphorisms? Part of it stems from the style that these are written in. I am unable to describe it succinctly, but it's definitely of a specific era of Tumblr posts that peaked in popularity and now just feel over-used. Beyond that some of the language feels like that of a non-native English speaker who has gotten certain nuance of meanings mixed up or someone using a Thesaurus to be more "unique" without understanding how the replacement words differ from the original, if that makes any sense. There are phrases that are just off, and there was at least one that didn't make any sense at all. All that being said, there were a few pages that rang true, but not enough or significantly enough to merit a second read, recommendation of, or purchase of this collection.

[Renee]

This felt like reading someone's midnight musings from Tumblr .....

[DuskRose]

It was beautifully written however it wasn't as good as some of his other work ( Black butterfly & Beautiful chaos).

I give this 3.5 stars out of 5.

[Mika]

RM Drake does NOT only have books with beautiful covers BUT ALSO books with really good content that gives me lots of feelings. Just wow.

[Christine Malang]

I wish there was more to this.

"Maybe love was meant to save us from ourselves"

"T0 be human is to be broken and broken is its own kinds of beautiful"

[Christina]

"we are the society we so desperately blame for all our faults buried beneath our scars"

[Samantha Ivy (novelsbysamantha)]

Head on over to my Instagram at instagram.com/samanthaivyyyy for reviews

[Michelle Sims]

Like the book previous Spaceship this was not the book of poetry I was expecting. This book is instead told in little musings and thoughts and is a little bit weird if I'm going to be honest. There were indeed some good bits to be had with in but overall I was a little unimpressed.

[Maddly Peculiar]

Robert M. Drake writes poetry like an angsty, lovesick 13-year-old.

[Nikki]

3.5 stars - There were just a couple poems in this book that were worth saving, but not nearly enough as I'd like. I'm not sure anything can compare to his "Black Butterfly" which is my all time favourite.

[Alya AlShaibani]

2.5. RM Drake's writing is oh so repetitive.

[Sincerely Bluejay]

Stunning. Simply Stunning.

[Fa6amie]

Somewhere between 2-3 out of 5...