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When Daisies and Thunderstorms Collide
In which a young lady falls for a young man. The young lady learns that she can be both delicate and strong at the same time; thus daisies and thunderstorms were born. Free verse poetry book told in the perspective of an underrated flower. Beautiful cover by Jessika Brown.
78 pages, Paperback
Published August 30, 2018
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October 21, 2018
Reviewed For Readers' Favorite by Grant Leishman
When Daisies and Thunderstorms Collide, is a short collection of free-poetry, from the pen of Isabel Scheck. It takes a look at unrequited love, through the eyes of the most underrated of flowers – the daisy. The poems, short and sharp, bring the poignancy and heartache of a young woman, longing for someone, who fails to even notice her. Using her metaphors of the thunderstorm and the daisy, you, as the reader, will run the full gamut of hope, love, rejection, hope again, pain, and finally rage, as the love that flows from the daisy, is not reciprocated by the thunderstorm. What the poet tries to evoke here is the idea that we can be both sides of the equation, both the delicate daisy and the roaring thunderstorm.
This is a quick read and will appeal to readers who like visual imagery and the linking of emotions to physical reactions. As with all collections, especially of poetry, a few favourites will always stand out and this was certainly the case, for me, with When Daisies and Thunderstorms Collide. Author Isobel Scheck managed to touch me with a number of verses. In “I Do Not Appreciate Your Frostiness”, I chuckled as the daisy berates the thunderstorm for ignoring her. I can almost feel the self-righteousness of the daisy. “How dare you ignore me?” Equally, “It’s Okay ‘Cause I’ll Learn To Love Myself”, the daisy comes to the realisation that the Thunderstorm not only was not going to notice her and fall for her, he never had and never would. Her only option was to love herself. I enjoyed the positive affirmation of this poem. Finally, “The Daisy Is Dead. Now I’m The Thunderstorm” is a wonderful exclamation of turning a negative into a positive. The thunderstorm’s ignoring of the daisy, will make the daisy turn into her very own thunderstorm. This is a good, gentle read for anyone who has experienced unrequited love or has been hurt by indifference and dismissal.
When Daisies and Thunderstorms Collide, is a short collection of free-poetry, from the pen of Isabel Scheck. It takes a look at unrequited love, through the eyes of the most underrated of flowers – the daisy. The poems, short and sharp, bring the poignancy and heartache of a young woman, longing for someone, who fails to even notice her. Using her metaphors of the thunderstorm and the daisy, you, as the reader, will run the full gamut of hope, love, rejection, hope again, pain, and finally rage, as the love that flows from the daisy, is not reciprocated by the thunderstorm. What the poet tries to evoke here is the idea that we can be both sides of the equation, both the delicate daisy and the roaring thunderstorm.
This is a quick read and will appeal to readers who like visual imagery and the linking of emotions to physical reactions. As with all collections, especially of poetry, a few favourites will always stand out and this was certainly the case, for me, with When Daisies and Thunderstorms Collide. Author Isobel Scheck managed to touch me with a number of verses. In “I Do Not Appreciate Your Frostiness”, I chuckled as the daisy berates the thunderstorm for ignoring her. I can almost feel the self-righteousness of the daisy. “How dare you ignore me?” Equally, “It’s Okay ‘Cause I’ll Learn To Love Myself”, the daisy comes to the realisation that the Thunderstorm not only was not going to notice her and fall for her, he never had and never would. Her only option was to love herself. I enjoyed the positive affirmation of this poem. Finally, “The Daisy Is Dead. Now I’m The Thunderstorm” is a wonderful exclamation of turning a negative into a positive. The thunderstorm’s ignoring of the daisy, will make the daisy turn into her very own thunderstorm. This is a good, gentle read for anyone who has experienced unrequited love or has been hurt by indifference and dismissal.
August 16, 2018
When Daisies and Thunderstorms Collide by Isabel Scheck is a book of poetic fiction that tells the story of a daisy being swept up into a thunderstorm. Told in a chronological compilation of free-form versed poetry, the plot offers an analogy of a fragile young woman who loves a man. The young woman is a fragile flower, a daisy, and the man is a ferocious thunderstorm. With emotion, perseverance, and the strength (and initially, the lack thereof) of both identities brought forward as focal points in the narrative, love takes center stage as the daisy is able to find herself while under the turbulent and often violent crush of the storm.
When Daisies and Thunderstorms Collide is a fresh approach to storytelling that Isabel Scheck has applied to a recurrent theme. I loved the verses that are presented on each page. While they are simple and straightforward, the power of her words resonate into the culmination of a beautifully told story.
Most beings avoid
being the centre
of chaos;
But I’m drawn to
your blizzards
like the clouds that
help you create turmoil.
--STILL STUCK ON YOU
At the heart of the story is a frail flora speaking both to and about her love of the thunderstorm, in which the gentle raindrops and sleet that the storm unleashes can sometimes feel eerily codependent. It is when the daisy begins to shed her weakness and stand resolute in the storm that I saw her in full bloom, despite a series of crushing defeats. This book was shared with my 15-year old daughter who disappeared into her room with it, and has yet to return. It's brilliant.
Review written for Readers' Favorite.
When Daisies and Thunderstorms Collide is a fresh approach to storytelling that Isabel Scheck has applied to a recurrent theme. I loved the verses that are presented on each page. While they are simple and straightforward, the power of her words resonate into the culmination of a beautifully told story.
Most beings avoid
being the centre
of chaos;
But I’m drawn to
your blizzards
like the clouds that
help you create turmoil.
--STILL STUCK ON YOU
At the heart of the story is a frail flora speaking both to and about her love of the thunderstorm, in which the gentle raindrops and sleet that the storm unleashes can sometimes feel eerily codependent. It is when the daisy begins to shed her weakness and stand resolute in the storm that I saw her in full bloom, despite a series of crushing defeats. This book was shared with my 15-year old daughter who disappeared into her room with it, and has yet to return. It's brilliant.
Review written for Readers' Favorite.
July 26, 2018
Reviewed by Sarah Stuart for Readers' Favorite
When Daisies and Thunderstorms Collide by Isabel Scheck is far freer than ordinary freestyle verse. None are formally titled; each has words in bold capitals that sum up the content at the end. The poems follow one after another almost as if they are tumbling over the pages in the wind. All of them are narrated by a daisy, a flower that will be recognised worldwide; it grows on every continent but Antarctica and belongs to a family believed to date back fifty million years, which makes it a marvellous choice to represent a young woman both delicate and strong who has fallen in love so deeply. “Only when it’s raining do I dance freely in the stormy winds.”
Isabel Scheck’s daisy begins by comparing her lover to a thunderstorm that begins gently and then “all of a sudden rain comes pelting down like my love for you”. She isn’t grand like a rose, or noticeable, or sure he does love her, but he is her lightning bolt, her sunshine, and then she begins question why he sends thunderstorms. After the questions come the doubts and the pleas to be noticed, and then the heart-rending “You Adoration Is All I Need To Be Sane” – or is it a bold demand for his attention? The daisy does say he “came into my world like a tornado”, but she withdraws, and the daisy has a temper! When Daisies and Thunderstorms Collide is dedicated to all those who understand unrequited love, and it is utterly enchanting.
When Daisies and Thunderstorms Collide by Isabel Scheck is far freer than ordinary freestyle verse. None are formally titled; each has words in bold capitals that sum up the content at the end. The poems follow one after another almost as if they are tumbling over the pages in the wind. All of them are narrated by a daisy, a flower that will be recognised worldwide; it grows on every continent but Antarctica and belongs to a family believed to date back fifty million years, which makes it a marvellous choice to represent a young woman both delicate and strong who has fallen in love so deeply. “Only when it’s raining do I dance freely in the stormy winds.”
Isabel Scheck’s daisy begins by comparing her lover to a thunderstorm that begins gently and then “all of a sudden rain comes pelting down like my love for you”. She isn’t grand like a rose, or noticeable, or sure he does love her, but he is her lightning bolt, her sunshine, and then she begins question why he sends thunderstorms. After the questions come the doubts and the pleas to be noticed, and then the heart-rending “You Adoration Is All I Need To Be Sane” – or is it a bold demand for his attention? The daisy does say he “came into my world like a tornado”, but she withdraws, and the daisy has a temper! When Daisies and Thunderstorms Collide is dedicated to all those who understand unrequited love, and it is utterly enchanting.
October 30, 2021
Now I don't usually read poetry and I don't tend to like it very much when I do, so honestly I didn't have high hopes for this. I struggle to follow the hidden meanings and stories in poetry books, but this time i was actually fascinated.
This book appears to be the tragic story of unrequited love, but found myself growing to dislike the pov character. I sympathised more with the thunderstorm. To me this was the story of a girl falling for a celebrity, wishing he would notice her and see the greatness in her.
On the surface it seems like a girl growing to overcome her toxic love and the abusive relationship she is in. However I found her to be the abusive and toxic one. Some examples below:
"Change your sorms to rainbows for me" demands the girl. A storm cannot be a rainbow. It's not what he is. She is demanding unhealthy, unattainable things from him to please her.
"The other daisies won't ever adore storms as much as I adore you" the classic 'no one will ever love you as much as me', which is terribly abusive and manipulative.
"Roses don't deserve your love" who is she to say who deserves his love? That's not for her to decide.
"Show me some affection; it won't kill you" wow, this made me really uncomfortable. This book reads like he doesn't even really notice her and she demands these things with so much force, it's scary.
"Won't even send me a single raindrop [...] I do not appreciate your frostiness" again with the demanding tone when he doesn't appear to actually know her. She demands things she has no right to.
"I'm going to find another being who actually gives a damn" i feel this is terribly unfair since she doesn't know if he would give a damn if he actually knew her. She acts like just because she showers him in love from afar she is entitled to his attention.
Let me make myself clear, I don't know if this is the intended way to look at this story and I think it makes all the more interesting.
This book appears to be the tragic story of unrequited love, but found myself growing to dislike the pov character. I sympathised more with the thunderstorm. To me this was the story of a girl falling for a celebrity, wishing he would notice her and see the greatness in her.
On the surface it seems like a girl growing to overcome her toxic love and the abusive relationship she is in. However I found her to be the abusive and toxic one. Some examples below:
"Change your sorms to rainbows for me" demands the girl. A storm cannot be a rainbow. It's not what he is. She is demanding unhealthy, unattainable things from him to please her.
"The other daisies won't ever adore storms as much as I adore you" the classic 'no one will ever love you as much as me', which is terribly abusive and manipulative.
"Roses don't deserve your love" who is she to say who deserves his love? That's not for her to decide.
"Show me some affection; it won't kill you" wow, this made me really uncomfortable. This book reads like he doesn't even really notice her and she demands these things with so much force, it's scary.
"Won't even send me a single raindrop [...] I do not appreciate your frostiness" again with the demanding tone when he doesn't appear to actually know her. She demands things she has no right to.
"I'm going to find another being who actually gives a damn" i feel this is terribly unfair since she doesn't know if he would give a damn if he actually knew her. She acts like just because she showers him in love from afar she is entitled to his attention.
Let me make myself clear, I don't know if this is the intended way to look at this story and I think it makes all the more interesting.
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