In this book, Roger Humes combines a unique idea for poetry with his amazingly profound and insight-driven voice. Humes captures the reader's attention with powerful metaphors and long-lasting images that color the "poetic canvas" magnificently. Humes' thoughts flow into sentences seamlessly, creating the heartfelt illusion of a dream, embodying the most human emotions and bringing them to the surface of the paper. All the while, he deftly keeps the story flowing with intrigue and expertise. This chapbook of poetry is truly a noteworthy piece of art, a wondrous bit of storytelling, a glimmering oasis in an endless desert.

Roger Humes manages a chapbook sanctified with both honesty and majestic feeling. Inspired by the classic works of Persian poet Nezami of Gandja and the Syrian poet Nizar Qabbani, Humes countlessly hammers his embodiment of their stories page after page, as well as providing his own works that are rich and original, each poem cleverly blendling mystic awe with enlightened teachings.