Aidan Lucid’s “A Viking’s Prayer” is a well chosen selection of a captivating young poet’s work.  Lucid is a masterful weaver of words as he explores the very soul of life, from the pain and despair that he clearly knows from his own experience to the holding out of hope and the promise of resurrection.  The poetry in a “A Viking’s Prayer” is at times intense and, at others, softly reflective.  Lucid is not afraid to go from the deeply contemplative or powerful to the outlandishly humorous—and then turn around and take the reader on a roller coaster ride of terror.

 

Representative of Lucid’s free style of writing is “The Sands of Time,” which ponders the imponderable.  “How I watch the sands of time falling freely from the egg timer of the universe....With each gust of wind it blows the sand further away.”  He concludes, “Man gets older but none the wiser,” a truism if ever there was one.

 

Even his briefest poems, such as “History,” are rich in their message and themes—empathetic, loving and strongly questioning of life and societal values.  With “Christmas Is,” he courageously questions the smugness with which mankind buys holiday cheer and simultaneously continues to spill blood around the world.  As you finish this excellent collection of poetry, you can be assured, to paraphrase Aidan’s own final words, that you will continue to hear his “echoes in the wind.”  

 

Andrew O’Hara

Editor of  www.jimstonjournal.com and author of “The Swan, Tales of the Sacramento Valley”

 

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