Barbara Cunningham

Gi-blues: a Soldier's Poem Barbara Cunningham

The author has hopes that the reader will identify with her writing. Her perspective is that of a woman, a mother, a wife, and a soldier. Her experiences are projected through her poetry. She wants the reader to hear, feel, and experience different emotions, and draw their own opinions and views. She expects them to relate, agree and disagree with her writing. She hopes that in many ways it provokes a sense of consciousness, by reflecting on subjects dealing with love, hate, death, and life. The author has a particular genre of poetic style, using rhyme, free write, end rhymes, internal rhymes, and list poems, in which most tell a story. The book also contains love serenades, haiku's, and some military poems. All that makes for a enjoyable and interesting reading. Her pin name, "Blues" represents poetic sound, color and thought. In her expressions she gives "Blues" a style of living, yet most poets would call it voice. But however way you perceive it, the dialogue should be memorable.