Reviewed by Faridah Nassozi for Readers' Favorite
Whisper Into My Eyes, by Christopher Jackson, is a collection of beautiful poems about life, love, passion, happiness, regret and all the other emotions that accompany us on the journey we all take when seeking love and happiness. Some of the poems speak about the beauty of new love, others about the pain of lost love, while others just speak about the desire for love and risking it all for love because the losses, pains and mistakes will be there, but in the end, it is all worth it. Each poem, written with words that are so few and yet so deep, brings with it a new set of emotions and a new reading thrill.
The poems in Whisper Into My Eyes by Christopher Jackson are truly the work of a gifted poet. The poems will touch your soul, soothe your heart and make you smile or make your heart ache with raw desire. The book is essentially a collection of poems that touch the full cycle of the beautiful and often painful journey of love. Christopher Jackson does not just touch on the beautiful side of love but the complete cycle, and all that makes it special; pain, passion, loss, regret, happiness, mistakes and making amends. The poems are filled with raw emotions that will tug at your heart and make you appreciate the little pleasures in life, the moments you have had, good or bad, and the life you have lived. Christopher Jackson wrote the kind of poems that will leave you yearning for the love that makes you cry out with joy.
Reviewed by Mamta Madhavan for Readers' Favorite
Whisper Into My Eyes: Cracked Hearts One Soul Book 1 by Christopher Jackson is a collection of soul searching poems that will help connect readers to the hearts and souls of other people. The poems evoke feelings of pain, sadness, suffering, love, peace, happiness and harmony. The poems are meditative and reflective and take readers to places not traveled before; they transcend all boundaries of time and space. The whole collection revolves around love, opening ourselves up to other souls and reaching out to other hearts. They reveal what is light and what is darkness effectively and convincingly.
The collection is profoundly synesthetic and one gets a feeling of vibration, exhilaration and great sensation while going through them. The poet has played well with the senses and mixed them up beautifully in a very simple yet aesthetic way. The haunting depiction of love, the weaknesses of humanity and the cracks in our lives make the poems relatable to readers. The style of writing is simple, neat and elegant. The short lines give an urgency, tension and uncertainty to the poems. The poet writes from his heart and all the poems have a beautiful lilt to them that will make readers want to read them again and again. All the poems convey the thoughts and feelings of the poet truly and vividly. The interesting images and emotions of the poet are interwoven in a way that propels the imagery forward.
Reviewed by Jack Magnus for Readers' Favorite
Whisper Into My Eyes is book one of Cracked Hearts One Soul, a poetry series written by Christopher Jackson. Jackson writes free verse. Each poem tells a story or reveals a world in miniature. The poems are linked with themes of love, redemption, loss, suffering, solitude and illness, but each stands alone and is complete in itself.
The poems in Christopher Jackson's book of poetry, Whisper Into My Eyes: Cracked Hearts One Soul are intense and lyrical. They beg the reader to be read aloud; some want to be read slowly, while others would seem to rush off the tongue. I found myself absorbed in each and every one of them. Jackson's style is direct and very, very personal, sometimes even uncomfortably so. This is a volume of poems that I found exceedingly hard to put down. I felt compelled to keep reading and rereading them. They are highly introspective and, at times, very visual. Some of the images are grotesque and frightening; there are monsters, and things that smother, and things one must run away from.
There's so much in this slim volume. Jackson calls it a "meditative poetic journal;" and it's an apt description indeed. There is that sense of an invasion of privacy in reading these poems; an almost delicious or decadent sense of reading another's diary, albeit with the implied consent of the diarist himself. Whisper Into My Eyes: Cracked Hearts One Soul is not for the faint of heart, but those venturesome souls who'll brave the shadows in search of excellent free verse will not be disappointed. It's highly recommended.