Beau Taplin’s Bloom is a beautiful collection of poems focused on deep love, self introspection, and the value of being true to oneself. Most of the poems in this collection are fairly short, and all are thought provoking.

Several of these poems spoke to me on a very deep level. Many actually made me uncomfortable because it challenged deeply ingrained notions of being unworthy. Good poetry does that, you know? Makes you look at things differently, and see beauty in everything, even one’s own broken self.

I loved the various ways the poems were presented. Some pages were black, with white text, and some pages contained inspirations in large swirly font. Bloom is a work to read and reread, learning new things each time.

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