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Elizabeth H. House, Managing Director of Dorrance Publishing Co.
Rumpelstilzchen offers a collection of thoughts emphasizing the layers of emotion often defining the human condition. Along the way, you highlight qualities relating to identity, belief, and love in various forms. From the television evangelist to "Lucifer" and the twenty-firs century politician, your work covers a range of characters and experiences. Altogether your reflections are designed to communicate phases of your own journey as well as to capture the imagination and provoke thought for the reader who may be following a similar path.
John L. Moore, Writer, Editor and Storyteller
John Deer (the alias of Rumpelstilzchen) has a playful, nonetheless serious way with the poems in his collection of verse titled "Poetic Engineering." Some, such as "Snack Time," which details the ingredients of a package of peanut crackers, are downright funny. Others, notably "An Austrian Evolution," struck me as sad. I like best the ones that tell a story. "Stephanie" and "Arbor Vitae" fall in this category. My favorites are "Tall Man," which chronicles with a powerful poetic punch the relations of a father and a son, and "So Long, Othello, which mourns the death of a kindly large dog who at last became "too worn to be lifted off the floor." John Deer has produced a surprising variety of poems that touch upon many aspects of modern life. I found a number of them to be quite moving.
Rumpelstilzchen offers a collection of thoughts emphasizing the layers of emotion often defining the human condition. Along the way, you highlight qualities relating to identity, belief, and love in various forms. From the television evangelist to "Lucifer" and the twenty-firs century politician, your work covers a range of characters and experiences. Altogether your reflections are designed to communicate phases of your own journey as well as to capture the imagination and provoke thought for the reader who may be following a similar path.
John L. Moore, Writer, Editor and Storyteller
John Deer (the alias of Rumpelstilzchen) has a playful, nonetheless serious way with the poems in his collection of verse titled "Poetic Engineering." Some, such as "Snack Time," which details the ingredients of a package of peanut crackers, are downright funny. Others, notably "An Austrian Evolution," struck me as sad. I like best the ones that tell a story. "Stephanie" and "Arbor Vitae" fall in this category. My favorites are "Tall Man," which chronicles with a powerful poetic punch the relations of a father and a son, and "So Long, Othello, which mourns the death of a kindly large dog who at last became "too worn to be lifted off the floor." John Deer has produced a surprising variety of poems that touch upon many aspects of modern life. I found a number of them to be quite moving.
Rumpelstilzchen,
I am overwhelmed by the complexity of feelings stirred by your poetry.
Thank you for sharing them.
You are an astute purveyor of human feelings.
Annette O’Donnell