The System and Purple isn’t my normal kind of read as I’m not a massive poetry lover. I can appreciate the art and the thought that goes into writing poetry.

The book is split into two sections and as you may have guessed from the title we have ‘System’ in which there are three poems all called the same – System 1, 2, and 3. The ‘Purple’ is a collection of eleven poems, with just one, the final poem being called Purple.

In the system, the poems are all about the society and the world in which we currently live and how people may think they are free but the ‘system’ is always there, dictating how we live, what we see, or don’t see. What we hear or don’t hear.

In the second section, the poems are more about life in general. They are more personal. I particularly liked the poem called ‘Garden’ in which the author uses a garden as a metaphor for life such as some flowers being picked early whilst others bloom until the very end.

The book is short at just 21 pages. It took me a matter of minutes to read through it. I suppose that if you are a poetry lover you will want to take your time reading them, to absorb the author’s work and so will take longer to read the book.

I like how the author thinks and feels about the world and how he views it. He certainly feels passionate about the way the world works and the powers that be.

A nice, quick read that wasn’t too complex and had a decent amount of poems within.