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Falling Through Love: Poems
"Beautiful . . . Kichloo speaks to predecessors as diverse as Seamus Heaney and (fellow doctor-poet) Rafael Campo in a series of lovely, compelling poems." --Chaya Bhuvaneswar, author of White Dancing Elephants
Falling Through Love submerges readers into Akif Kichloo's deeply personal yet widely resonant experiences, exploring relationships in their most exposed and honest states. Written in a variety of poetic forms--free verse, rhyme, prose, and visual poetry--Falling Through Love takes the reader on a poignant journey with the writer, about charting one's own path in life, investigating failure, family dynamics, and love. Looking at life backward and forward simultaneously, this collection brings forth new perspectives on what it means to be alive, to have made mistakes, to have fought for an identity, to have loved and lost and then loved and lost again.
"Falling Through Love is a brilliant and unapologetic exploration of faith, loss, mental illness, and the many facets of love. Kichloo's compelling storytelling will remind you of the push and pull of love." --K.Y. Robinson, author of Submerge
"Reading Falling Through Love felt like what I imagine Alice felt like falling into Wonderland--it's beautiful (almost overwhelmingly so), evokes a remarkable variety and amount of emotions, and ultimately causes you to look inward towards yourself . . . The poems and artwork throughout Falling Through Love create an emotional journey that you can't help but relate to." --Juliette Sebock, Nightingale & Sparrow Literary Magazine
Falling Through Love submerges readers into Akif Kichloo's deeply personal yet widely resonant experiences, exploring relationships in their most exposed and honest states. Written in a variety of poetic forms--free verse, rhyme, prose, and visual poetry--Falling Through Love takes the reader on a poignant journey with the writer, about charting one's own path in life, investigating failure, family dynamics, and love. Looking at life backward and forward simultaneously, this collection brings forth new perspectives on what it means to be alive, to have made mistakes, to have fought for an identity, to have loved and lost and then loved and lost again.
"Falling Through Love is a brilliant and unapologetic exploration of faith, loss, mental illness, and the many facets of love. Kichloo's compelling storytelling will remind you of the push and pull of love." --K.Y. Robinson, author of Submerge
"Reading Falling Through Love felt like what I imagine Alice felt like falling into Wonderland--it's beautiful (almost overwhelmingly so), evokes a remarkable variety and amount of emotions, and ultimately causes you to look inward towards yourself . . . The poems and artwork throughout Falling Through Love create an emotional journey that you can't help but relate to." --Juliette Sebock, Nightingale & Sparrow Literary Magazine
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146 pages, ebook
Published November 5, 2019
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About the author
Akif Kichloo
3 books68 followersAkif Kichloo is a Poet, Doctor of Medicine by profession, and Author of three full length poetry collections: Falling Through Love (Andrews Mcmeel Publishing, 2019), Poems That Lose (Read Out Loud Publishing, 2017) & The Feeling May Remain (Read Out Loud Publishing, 2016). A graduate of JU, Akif holds a bachelor’s degree in medicine and surgery.
Akif Kichloo started writing at an early age, having contributed for publications like The Huffington Post and The Wire. His poems have appeared in Palette Poetry, Glass, Fly Paper Magazine, Obra / Artifact, Sheraza, Nightingale & Sparrow, Homology Lit, Kissing Dynamite, Verse of Silence, and more. In addition, he was invited to speak at the prestigious TEDx stage at Christ University to present his talk Follow Your Confusion.
Amidst the uncertainties of this amazing, terrible, magical, horrible, yet beautiful, life, as he puts it, Akif Kichloo writes of love, grief, healing and self care, posting a couple of poems weekly to his various social media pages with a huge following of avid readers and poetry lovers from all over the world. You can follow him on Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr, Pinterest or Twitter @akifkichloo
Akif Kichloo started writing at an early age, having contributed for publications like The Huffington Post and The Wire. His poems have appeared in Palette Poetry, Glass, Fly Paper Magazine, Obra / Artifact, Sheraza, Nightingale & Sparrow, Homology Lit, Kissing Dynamite, Verse of Silence, and more. In addition, he was invited to speak at the prestigious TEDx stage at Christ University to present his talk Follow Your Confusion.
Amidst the uncertainties of this amazing, terrible, magical, horrible, yet beautiful, life, as he puts it, Akif Kichloo writes of love, grief, healing and self care, posting a couple of poems weekly to his various social media pages with a huge following of avid readers and poetry lovers from all over the world. You can follow him on Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr, Pinterest or Twitter @akifkichloo
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October 20, 2020
''The world opens up to you in grief, swallows you-
like a paradox. Consider a blooming rosebud and the universe closing itself into it.''
*Excerpt from the poem ''Courage: Making Sure with My Actions That My Mother Knows Her Prayers Don't Work''
This collection has been divided into different sections.
The first section named 'Autumn Infinite' talks about poetry and being a poet, how the poet's family looks at the poet, beliefs and traditions in a family, a broken family, domestic violence and how it affects a child in the long run, death and the relationship with parents, lessons learnt in life, dreamers and dreams.
The second section named 'Were We Holding Hands?' talks about heartbreak, love and melancholy, unborn children, the past and the present, the ugliness of love and the beauty of it.
The third section named 'Hitched To Nothing' talks about the dark feelings and emotions the poet goes through, depression, suicide and a mnemonic of SAD PERSON which I found really clever and fitting, what and who God is, regrets, Stockholm Syndrome in relation to oneself.
In this section, I specifically loved the original verse in Hindi as well as in Urdu script under the poem ''A Juneberry Plant Doesn't Blossom In June''. It's beautiful.
Overall, this collection is so beautiful. I really appreciate the fabulous black and white ink illustrations. They were fantastic and added so much of attention to the whole collection.
But sometimes I cannot help feeling that the poet focussed more on the sentence structure or the length of the lines rather than the concept represented in a poem. It was really distracting and out of the blue. And I am really not a fan of strong swear words and finding fault with the god that we believe in
But it was a good read. It's personal as well as it must be so liberating for the poet to express so vividly what's in his heart and mind.
Thank you so much #NetGalley for providing me this copy of #FallingThroughLove
like a paradox. Consider a blooming rosebud and the universe closing itself into it.''
*Excerpt from the poem ''Courage: Making Sure with My Actions That My Mother Knows Her Prayers Don't Work''
This collection has been divided into different sections.
The first section named 'Autumn Infinite' talks about poetry and being a poet, how the poet's family looks at the poet, beliefs and traditions in a family, a broken family, domestic violence and how it affects a child in the long run, death and the relationship with parents, lessons learnt in life, dreamers and dreams.
The second section named 'Were We Holding Hands?' talks about heartbreak, love and melancholy, unborn children, the past and the present, the ugliness of love and the beauty of it.
The third section named 'Hitched To Nothing' talks about the dark feelings and emotions the poet goes through, depression, suicide and a mnemonic of SAD PERSON which I found really clever and fitting, what and who God is, regrets, Stockholm Syndrome in relation to oneself.
In this section, I specifically loved the original verse in Hindi as well as in Urdu script under the poem ''A Juneberry Plant Doesn't Blossom In June''. It's beautiful.
Overall, this collection is so beautiful. I really appreciate the fabulous black and white ink illustrations. They were fantastic and added so much of attention to the whole collection.
But sometimes I cannot help feeling that the poet focussed more on the sentence structure or the length of the lines rather than the concept represented in a poem. It was really distracting and out of the blue. And I am really not a fan of strong swear words and finding fault with the god that we believe in
But it was a good read. It's personal as well as it must be so liberating for the poet to express so vividly what's in his heart and mind.
Thank you so much #NetGalley for providing me this copy of #FallingThroughLove
December 13, 2019
“FALLING THROUGH LOVE” by Akif Kichloo
I have been trying to pick up more poetry books and I am looking for one that would bring life back to my love of poetry once again. I am so delighted that this indeed was the book. It was such a beautiful collection of words that is deep and lovely that resonated with me for its powerful and beautiful thoughts on a page.
The writing is truly magical and an experience in itself.
The collection is divided into three main parts, all unified into its main theme about love. It navigates and weaves amazingly the way we experience this small word “love” that means so much more to all of us.
I highly recommend this poetry collection, as this will stay with you long after you read it. I guarantee that you definitely be going back to this read again and again and again.
I have been trying to pick up more poetry books and I am looking for one that would bring life back to my love of poetry once again. I am so delighted that this indeed was the book. It was such a beautiful collection of words that is deep and lovely that resonated with me for its powerful and beautiful thoughts on a page.
The writing is truly magical and an experience in itself.
The collection is divided into three main parts, all unified into its main theme about love. It navigates and weaves amazingly the way we experience this small word “love” that means so much more to all of us.
I highly recommend this poetry collection, as this will stay with you long after you read it. I guarantee that you definitely be going back to this read again and again and again.
November 16, 2019
2.5 stars.
"How do you build home sour of defeat?" asks my intrepid heart.
"You don't," I throw my answer back. "You live out on the streets, with other lonely folks, or you spit spiderwebs and reside in them hoping for someone to walk through and get caught up in your gateless home."
I didn't enjoy this much to be honest. I could feel the sorrow and loss of the author's in some of the poems but I didn't like the writing style very much. I enjoyed around 20 poems while not so much for the rest. Some of them were repetitive and some were kinda messy. There were a few that I found to be vulgar and uncomfortable.
Thank you Netgalley for providing me with the digital copy for an honest review.
"How do you build home sour of defeat?" asks my intrepid heart.
"You don't," I throw my answer back. "You live out on the streets, with other lonely folks, or you spit spiderwebs and reside in them hoping for someone to walk through and get caught up in your gateless home."
I didn't enjoy this much to be honest. I could feel the sorrow and loss of the author's in some of the poems but I didn't like the writing style very much. I enjoyed around 20 poems while not so much for the rest. Some of them were repetitive and some were kinda messy. There were a few that I found to be vulgar and uncomfortable.
Thank you Netgalley for providing me with the digital copy for an honest review.
November 11, 2019
Oftentimes a book comes out of a pile and catches to get me to the centre of it's core. Falling through love by Akif Kichloo is another such book with a unique voice. The beautiful style of poems makes it stand from the other poetry books I owe.
Akif's talent in writing will leave you speechless, his words are slow tonic and quick poison. The poems in the book mostly deal with heartbreak, pain in love, love, loss and there is just sufficient amount of philosophy that won't give you the mushy philosophical vibe. My heart lies in the first poem, I could much relate to it (you will know if you are a medical student). Most of them seem to be influenced by the reality as so much of rawness indeed is not notable I believe.
The word "beautiful" will be an understatement to describe this poetry book. Akif's poems are evocative, relatable and hard hitting with all aspects to make it a perfect poetry collection. The collection is a mix of simple and complex poems, it is therefore best idea to stretch reading it for over a week to absorb all the essence in these words.
I loved the poems but I will slightly disagree with the size of book which was too large -- disappointing me as it won't fit in my shelf anyways understanding that the size was much needed to format the poems the best way I much appreciate Akif's decision.
"When a book speaks, you know it's the right pick and 'Falling through love' by Akif Kichloo was one among these few special titles"
Few of my personal favourites were
1) 'My father says poetry will not pay my bills, clinical practice will' from page 1
2) 'The boy and the wolf' from page 78
3) 'Post Laughter guilt from page 54
Akif's talent in writing will leave you speechless, his words are slow tonic and quick poison. The poems in the book mostly deal with heartbreak, pain in love, love, loss and there is just sufficient amount of philosophy that won't give you the mushy philosophical vibe. My heart lies in the first poem, I could much relate to it (you will know if you are a medical student). Most of them seem to be influenced by the reality as so much of rawness indeed is not notable I believe.
The word "beautiful" will be an understatement to describe this poetry book. Akif's poems are evocative, relatable and hard hitting with all aspects to make it a perfect poetry collection. The collection is a mix of simple and complex poems, it is therefore best idea to stretch reading it for over a week to absorb all the essence in these words.
I loved the poems but I will slightly disagree with the size of book which was too large -- disappointing me as it won't fit in my shelf anyways understanding that the size was much needed to format the poems the best way I much appreciate Akif's decision.
"When a book speaks, you know it's the right pick and 'Falling through love' by Akif Kichloo was one among these few special titles"
Few of my personal favourites were
1) 'My father says poetry will not pay my bills, clinical practice will' from page 1
2) 'The boy and the wolf' from page 78
3) 'Post Laughter guilt from page 54
November 9, 2019
It's an amazing book that you must not skip if you love reading #poetry . This book is about the experience of falling in love, longing and loss. When you feel being Unloved. The author has beautifully written each and every piece with so much depth. Yes, there are free verse, rhymes, prose in the book which gives the reader a completely different experience. The author tells about the struggle, about getting up every time you fall, about fighting for dreams in an astounding way.
The book is divided into three sections with a different theme. The way the author described the emotions is commendable. The beautiful illustrations added it’s own touch to the book. It made this book more precious. I fell in love with the writing style of the author. It’s too deep and crisp. With every page, you’ll be falling in love with the book.
The book is divided into three sections with a different theme. The way the author described the emotions is commendable. The beautiful illustrations added it’s own touch to the book. It made this book more precious. I fell in love with the writing style of the author. It’s too deep and crisp. With every page, you’ll be falling in love with the book.
April 15, 2021
It’s pretty cool how he alchemized medicine into poetry
December 6, 2021
Deeply moving, profound, and heartbreakingly sharp at times. About love, loss, grief, and survival.
December 9, 2024
i appreciated how much thought was put into how the words appeared on the page visually but nothing really stuck w me
October 21, 2019
*I received an ARC of this book through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review*
I came into this book not knowing Akif Kichloo or his work, and I was pleasantly surprised by a volume of haunting poetry, accompanied by a handful of beautiful, black and white illustrations. The drawings are truly as gorgeous as the verses, and they fully capture the spirit of “Falling Through Love”.
The book is divided into three sections, but a cohesive tone unifies the whole work. Each poem seemed to explore a different version of love —familiar love, romantic love, self-love, love for God, a god, some god— and its intricate relationship with the sadder, nastier emotions humans are capable of. It made me think of a Venn Diagram: Love and Grief, or Love and Anger, or Love and Something Else, and every poem took form right in the middle, where both things tangled into a jumbled amalgamation of feelings and thoughts, falling through and dragging the reader with. The product, overall, is powerful.
There were moments when I thought Kichloo was too clever for his own good. Some allegories were crafted with such care, the artifice became obvious. Like the trick reveled before the illusion, this thought cooled my enjoyment of some sections. This, however, was a minor, personal grip. Too-experimental pieces tend to lose me, but I know there’s a giant audience for them.
Fans of Kichloo will adore this collection, and newcomers like me will find plenty to like and ponder over. After all, perhaps poetry is just a “proper” name for the arrangements of words that make us feel. Kichloo achieves this with tantalizing ease.
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“I never see approval in my father’s aging face. And I write a poem.
I never spot peace in my mother’s beautiful eyes. And I write a poem.
My brother keeps forgetting my name. And. I write a poem.”
“All that scares me makes me lighter.
Will you float away with me? To a
town where the sun’s slow exile doesn’t
threaten our days. Where the counting of
hours is simply an exercise in futility.
Where wasting away years is the norm of
the place…”
"...there is this tender place
between something & everything.
now that's where I see myself.
someone's something
in the everything of their world."
-
I believe all books are voyages to new lands; poetry, in particular, becomes a window into the machinations of someone else’s heart. Kichloo’s culture —so different from mine, born in a tiny Caribbean island— was a joy to discover. I adored the bits of Arabic, Persian and other languages used throughout the book; that the words were sometimes explained and sometimes not. The chance to weight and consider our differences, to find our similarities are always heavier, is one of the reasons I love reading. I thank Kichloo for the opportunity.
I came into this book not knowing Akif Kichloo or his work, and I was pleasantly surprised by a volume of haunting poetry, accompanied by a handful of beautiful, black and white illustrations. The drawings are truly as gorgeous as the verses, and they fully capture the spirit of “Falling Through Love”.
The book is divided into three sections, but a cohesive tone unifies the whole work. Each poem seemed to explore a different version of love —familiar love, romantic love, self-love, love for God, a god, some god— and its intricate relationship with the sadder, nastier emotions humans are capable of. It made me think of a Venn Diagram: Love and Grief, or Love and Anger, or Love and Something Else, and every poem took form right in the middle, where both things tangled into a jumbled amalgamation of feelings and thoughts, falling through and dragging the reader with. The product, overall, is powerful.
There were moments when I thought Kichloo was too clever for his own good. Some allegories were crafted with such care, the artifice became obvious. Like the trick reveled before the illusion, this thought cooled my enjoyment of some sections. This, however, was a minor, personal grip. Too-experimental pieces tend to lose me, but I know there’s a giant audience for them.
Fans of Kichloo will adore this collection, and newcomers like me will find plenty to like and ponder over. After all, perhaps poetry is just a “proper” name for the arrangements of words that make us feel. Kichloo achieves this with tantalizing ease.
-
“I never see approval in my father’s aging face. And I write a poem.
I never spot peace in my mother’s beautiful eyes. And I write a poem.
My brother keeps forgetting my name. And. I write a poem.”
“All that scares me makes me lighter.
Will you float away with me? To a
town where the sun’s slow exile doesn’t
threaten our days. Where the counting of
hours is simply an exercise in futility.
Where wasting away years is the norm of
the place…”
"...there is this tender place
between something & everything.
now that's where I see myself.
someone's something
in the everything of their world."
-
I believe all books are voyages to new lands; poetry, in particular, becomes a window into the machinations of someone else’s heart. Kichloo’s culture —so different from mine, born in a tiny Caribbean island— was a joy to discover. I adored the bits of Arabic, Persian and other languages used throughout the book; that the words were sometimes explained and sometimes not. The chance to weight and consider our differences, to find our similarities are always heavier, is one of the reasons I love reading. I thank Kichloo for the opportunity.
November 29, 2019
Akif Kichloo has proven himself to be a new rising poet to definitely watch out for. I have the pleasure of reading his other work Poems That Lose which I thoroughly enjoyed as well, but Falling Through Love has got to be my favorite book by him. I have witnessed how much his poetry evolved from his very first book up to the latest one. He was more precise, yet never losing his signature charm.
There are few poems here that honestly made me tear up, especially the poem The Absence of Everything. I don't know why, but it gave me goosebumps. The poem is about a stillborn child and how it somewhat affected the relationship of the parents. It spoke to me as if I have undergone the same ordeal, when in fact I didn't. And that was what is commendable with this collection of poetry, it has the power to make you feel emotions beyond your own understanding.
Falling Through Love is such a powerful collection revolving around family, parent and child relationship, loss, longing, brokenness, love and the depths of it and so much more. It was coherent yet gave different textures, different flavours. It tackled topics with full of heart, you can notice how personal each of the poems were, yet one couldn't help but resonate to it as if each poem is also about its reader no matter how different their situation might be. It was personal yet inclusive. It touches you like every good poetry should. It wasn't a detached piece of writing, it was inviting, with shared joy and even shared grief. A collection like this is hard to come by these days.
Akif Kichloo is now added to my favorite poets list. His work is truly something to watch out for. Lyrical yet concise. Honest and evocative. Fearless and passionate. A book worthy of your precious time.
There are few poems here that honestly made me tear up, especially the poem The Absence of Everything. I don't know why, but it gave me goosebumps. The poem is about a stillborn child and how it somewhat affected the relationship of the parents. It spoke to me as if I have undergone the same ordeal, when in fact I didn't. And that was what is commendable with this collection of poetry, it has the power to make you feel emotions beyond your own understanding.
Falling Through Love is such a powerful collection revolving around family, parent and child relationship, loss, longing, brokenness, love and the depths of it and so much more. It was coherent yet gave different textures, different flavours. It tackled topics with full of heart, you can notice how personal each of the poems were, yet one couldn't help but resonate to it as if each poem is also about its reader no matter how different their situation might be. It was personal yet inclusive. It touches you like every good poetry should. It wasn't a detached piece of writing, it was inviting, with shared joy and even shared grief. A collection like this is hard to come by these days.
Akif Kichloo is now added to my favorite poets list. His work is truly something to watch out for. Lyrical yet concise. Honest and evocative. Fearless and passionate. A book worthy of your precious time.
October 30, 2019
The eternal question " What is love?" Has burned through the minds of one and all at some point of their life definitely.
As humans we are forever in our quest for love , no matter what we tell ourselves. It is our inherent nature to want love, crave love and love.
Akif's book Falling through Love is a different perspective on love, makes us question what love is and all that it can be.
A poetic journey so profound, it takes you through the highs and lows of all kinds of love.
The poetry in this book is very different from what was in his previous two books ( both again excellent choices if you want to read heartfelt poetry.)
The great thing about Akif's poetry is his ability to move the reader with few and simple words. His poetry takes one through the throes of emotion.
A comparison which I am not qualified to make but I will make it anyway is What Khaled Hosseini does to prose, Akif Kichloo does to poetry.
An added attraction to the book is the illustration by Surbhi Pathania, each more beautiful than the other.
Also the book has some phrases in Hindi as well as Urdu which just adds more dimensions to it. I will also put in a word of praise for the gorgeous cover.
One million praises later, just go and pick the book already. It releases on 5th November and is available on Amazon as well.
As humans we are forever in our quest for love , no matter what we tell ourselves. It is our inherent nature to want love, crave love and love.
Akif's book Falling through Love is a different perspective on love, makes us question what love is and all that it can be.
A poetic journey so profound, it takes you through the highs and lows of all kinds of love.
The poetry in this book is very different from what was in his previous two books ( both again excellent choices if you want to read heartfelt poetry.)
The great thing about Akif's poetry is his ability to move the reader with few and simple words. His poetry takes one through the throes of emotion.
A comparison which I am not qualified to make but I will make it anyway is What Khaled Hosseini does to prose, Akif Kichloo does to poetry.
An added attraction to the book is the illustration by Surbhi Pathania, each more beautiful than the other.
Also the book has some phrases in Hindi as well as Urdu which just adds more dimensions to it. I will also put in a word of praise for the gorgeous cover.
One million praises later, just go and pick the book already. It releases on 5th November and is available on Amazon as well.
November 4, 2019
This is the book I have been waiting for. Here Kichloo really comes into his element gloriously, saying things as succinctly as one can ever attempt to say. This is crème de la crème of Kichloo's writing, and I would like to take the liberty to say, of any poetry book I have read this year or even the last couple of years for that matter. I read this book cover to cover once in a few days and have been reading it every now and then at a slow pace, to saviour its richness and exotic flavour. How liberating must it be for Kichloo to be able to express everything so poignantly without compromising the honesty of the subject. It truly transfers onto the reader, the truth of the topics touched in this book, which stays with one for the longest time. I am truly touched and honored to have found a poet, even though late in life, but one I will be following well into the late years of my life. I can't wait to see what Kichloo comes up with next.
November 14, 2019
🍨Falling Through Love🍨
Falling Through Love submerges readers into Kichloo's deeply personal yet widely resonant experiences, exploring relationships in their most exposed and honest states. Looking at life backward and forward simultaneously, this collection brings forth new perspectives on what it means to be alive, to have made mistakes, to have fought for an identity, to have loved and lost and then loved and lost again.
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🍨I just don't know what to say about this book, I am so much moved and surprised. This is not just a collection of poetry but it's much more than that. The book really connected with my soul. I can feel what the author was trying to convey. I was convinced by his words, the truth, the desire ans the bitterness of reality. The book is a piece of cake for all avid readers and I am so sure, you might not have read something like this yet.
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The illustrations, ah, they are just choosen so wisely, it made me feel happy and sad and again happy and confused. I was in a continuous chain of emotions. The book is presented in an unique manner. Once you pick it, I bet you won't keep it down. It was such a page turner. Exceptional and extraordinary. I highly recommend it.
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Rating: 4.25🌟
Falling Through Love submerges readers into Kichloo's deeply personal yet widely resonant experiences, exploring relationships in their most exposed and honest states. Looking at life backward and forward simultaneously, this collection brings forth new perspectives on what it means to be alive, to have made mistakes, to have fought for an identity, to have loved and lost and then loved and lost again.
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🍨I just don't know what to say about this book, I am so much moved and surprised. This is not just a collection of poetry but it's much more than that. The book really connected with my soul. I can feel what the author was trying to convey. I was convinced by his words, the truth, the desire ans the bitterness of reality. The book is a piece of cake for all avid readers and I am so sure, you might not have read something like this yet.
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The illustrations, ah, they are just choosen so wisely, it made me feel happy and sad and again happy and confused. I was in a continuous chain of emotions. The book is presented in an unique manner. Once you pick it, I bet you won't keep it down. It was such a page turner. Exceptional and extraordinary. I highly recommend it.
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Rating: 4.25🌟
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
November 4, 2019
What can I say. I keep coming back to this book everytime I have a question about life. I open one random page from the book and there it is. The answer in all its glory. I have started to use this book as my guide to navigate life. There is something so prophetic about the text in this book that I believe if you have it by your bedside, the text in this book has the power to enlighten you even in your dreams. From the very first page onwards I had this uncomfortable feeling in me, as if someone was poking me with knives made out of truth. As I kept on reading and started to accept what was written in front of me, that feeling went away and got replaced by wonder. One page at a time. I can't recommend this book enough. GET THIS BOOK. GIFT IT TO YOUR FRIENDS. YOUR LOVED ONES. YOUR BELOVED. YOUR MOTHER. YOUR FATHER. YOUR SIBLINGS. This will do wonders for anyone trying to understand life in all its different aspects and forms. Thank you Akif for writing this one. 5 stars!!
January 21, 2023
as its title it's really falling through love. could feel the struggles, denials, and claims in the poems. it uses typology at its best to form each piece. though this kind of style isn't really my cup of tea, but this is good. not to mention the use of foreign terms from many languages that kind of build its poeticity in another unique way.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
October 7, 2019
A lot of these sections resonated with me. I love how metaphorical the writing is. How it can mean what you need it to mean. These words were powerful.
January 12, 2020
2,5 stars.
There were some poems that really moved me and that I liked a lot and then some that didn't really work for me at all.
There were some poems that really moved me and that I liked a lot and then some that didn't really work for me at all.
August 20, 2021
Ive read so much poetry, and this is the first book that left me thinking, after I closed the cover, “this has really, really touched me.” Amazing.
October 19, 2021
There were a few poems I liked but on a whole, his poetry is different, like sketching out of the lines.
December 6, 2024
never again !
September 23, 2025
good work, but I preferred his style in “the feeling may remain”.
November 15, 2019
“Sometimes, timing can be wrong, but if you stay wrong, the right time will come”
Lately I´ve been into poetry, mainly because of my lack of time. So I picked this up mainly because the author used to be a doctor and because it had to do with love.
I really enjoyed this book many of the sections resonated with me. Specially because he used to be a doctor and some of the things he said about the work felt close to my heart. The writing means what you need it to mean in the moment and circumstances you need them to be. And I feel I needed to read this at the time I did. I wasn’t the best poetry collection I have ever read, but it made me feel complete, it made me feel hopeful. The black and white drawing were beautiful and they really helped portray the authors message.
My only critique would be that I had a hard time trying to understand everything he was trying to portray and I though in some parts he put more attention to the way the poem looked rather than the way it was written. But other than that I really liked it and I will be looking for new things this author writes.
“An unrealized dream is what makes us act like monsters”
Lately I´ve been into poetry, mainly because of my lack of time. So I picked this up mainly because the author used to be a doctor and because it had to do with love.
I really enjoyed this book many of the sections resonated with me. Specially because he used to be a doctor and some of the things he said about the work felt close to my heart. The writing means what you need it to mean in the moment and circumstances you need them to be. And I feel I needed to read this at the time I did. I wasn’t the best poetry collection I have ever read, but it made me feel complete, it made me feel hopeful. The black and white drawing were beautiful and they really helped portray the authors message.
My only critique would be that I had a hard time trying to understand everything he was trying to portray and I though in some parts he put more attention to the way the poem looked rather than the way it was written. But other than that I really liked it and I will be looking for new things this author writes.
“An unrealized dream is what makes us act like monsters”
June 27, 2021
*I received a copy of Akif Kichloo’s Falling Through Love for review purposes. As always, this review reflects only my honest thoughts on the book.*
Reading Falling Through Love felt like what I imagine Alice felt like falling into Wonderland. It’s beautiful—almost overwhelmingly so. It evokes a remarkable variety and amount of emotions, and ultimately causes you to look inward towards yourself.
*full review at Pencils & Pages*
Reading Falling Through Love felt like what I imagine Alice felt like falling into Wonderland. It’s beautiful—almost overwhelmingly so. It evokes a remarkable variety and amount of emotions, and ultimately causes you to look inward towards yourself.
*full review at Pencils & Pages*
September 19, 2025
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