Ian Pinto

The art of poetry is an essential gateway to understanding and appreciating the world around us. Poetry's strength lies in its ability to shed a "sideways" light on the planet, so the truth sneaks up on you. And the poet helps the people to embrace that light to kindle the innate human nature. Poetry teaches us how to live. Poetry is like the shield that protects everyone from the grub in the world and makes the human brain's conscious in fighting the vulnerabilities. The only way to read, analyse and embrace the light shed by great poetry is through the mind of a poet.

In this connection, the poetry book titled Pen Downs by Ian Pinto is an Anthology of poems. The poems are a collection that the author has written and collected over the years. Talking about the contents, the readers get to read fifty poems. The themes of the books vary on different topics.

Ian Pinto's dedication and belief towards the almighty can be understood from the initial pages. These pages contain poems dedicated to the Holy Spirit and prayer. It is indeed a process that almost everyone in the world, that the almighty or the holy spirit is the inspiring power for any task. The other pages have musings, liners and verses. They all are categorised under generalised topics like love, life, relationships, nature, etc.

With a traditional style of stanza writing, his poems will definitely provoke the lost zeal in one's mind. It is often said that poems come out of sadness and bring tranquillity to mind. Also, the simplicity in writing makes the book easily readable. But, when the muse is the almighty and his beautiful creations, the magic just goes into the reader's mind. The liners, along with the illustrations, make the book attractive.
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