The Human Condition: Poems by

by Damion Hamilton

Poems about Life, Love, Happiness and Despair.

Genres: Poetry

140 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 31, 2015

About the author

Damion Hamilton writes real and authentic poetry. He believes that it is important to laugh and to cry, if that how you feel. His poems have been compared to everyone from Langston Hughes to Charles Bukowski.
He loves his readers.

Reviews

[Janie · Rating 4 out of 5]

I took my time to absorb this resonant collection of poetry.  It is one man's expression of life outside the dream.  In this life, the narrator encounters obstacles that propagate dejection.  A monotonous job drains vitality and brings little to enjoy.  A dilapidated but functional car may just hold together to make it to work one more day.  And what if it doesn't?  Where will the money come from to fix it?  This is not an existence that provides the pride or fulfillment a person needs.  But ... "And this is important to remember - To do something that shines your day a bit No matter how good or bad you have it."  The author conveys the transcendence one can experience from reading. "It's important to learn something in those old books, something in them May save you, something may save me."   "When I read these I am in the light And the ground spins beneath me And I am happy to be breathing."

The author is content when "I'm with the walls And a typewriter, and dream of better people, a better world, And a better place to be."  So many of us are dreamers.  Not all of us are caught up in the urgent rush of a manic world.  I greatly enjoyed Damion's thoughtful poetry about those of us who just have to "do that day."  And once the day is over and we are returning home, "The train stops And we walk or ride to our precious places To sleep, And think about tomorrow."  I will assuredly be reading more of this author's work.

4.5 stars 

[Jason · Rating 4 out of 5]

Damion is a people watcher, he goes out and writes about what happens, if nothing happens he'll just write about who he sees or what he sees. An example for ya, it is a hot day and he writes a poem about a pigeon pecking another pigeon that looks like it is about to die, you may think that is mundane but it has been written so well you really feel for the pigeon left alone. The other poet that I know of that writes like this is Bukowski, you can see the influence but the rawness of Bukowski is missing, these poems have been fine tuned, it would be interesting to see what Damion's unedited writing is like.

My favourite in this book has to be "A Chance", such an honest piece of writing, Damion explains why he writes, why he goes outside and writes and that he can't write whilst stuck behind four walls. In my opinion this needs to be the first poem in the book, it would make a great introduction as it will give you an extra bit of understanding about what is to follow.

Another great bit here was comparing not knowing Bukowski as being similar to not having heard of Shakespeare. Brilliant!

This is a fine collection of poetry which starts off happy and gets darker and angrier towards the end of the book.

Blog post is here> https://felcherman.wordpress.com/2018...

[Teresa · Rating 3 out of 5]

Won in Goodreads Giveaway

3.5

This was an interesting book written in poetic form. The author writes about his daily life and what he sees, things that relate to the struggle we all go through as people: love, work, living. While I see the potential of this, I find that anyone could go out and write poetic form of what they see and experience and it could be interesting, because no single person's experiences are the same, and yet we can still relate to them. It is inspiring for me to go out and try to do the same.

There are two major reasons for not making this a 4/5. The first one is that there are a lot of typos, which interfered with the flow too often. The other thing is this writing, while in poetic free-form, which is great, doesn't really have any figurative language. I think there was a slant rhyme...once. If more figurative language was incorporated into these experiences, I thing the linguistic aesthetic of the writing would have been heightened.

Overall, relatively enjoyable piece that relates to the way we, as human beings, trudge through our lives just trying to get by, even if that means working over 40 hours a week, wasting away just to pay the bills.

[Mark · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a decent poetry collection but it never really grabbed me, like my favorite poetry does, but I like his every day man approach.

[GERALD GENTRY · Rating 4 out of 5]

If all you want is pretty, flowery poems you won't find them here. What you will find is true to life poems, about true life and true feelings. Just like the title say it's about the HUMAN CONDITION.
Read THE HUMAN CONDITION by Damion Hamilton. You will be glad you did.

[KarnagesMistress]

I received this book for free through Goodreads Giveaways. It is a Kindle book.