Obviously, Mr. Lucid has not allowed his disability to deter him in the slightest
from his chosen path.. His poem, A Viking’s Prayer, expresses the courageousness
with which the author faces life.
“And if I should be last to fall
Let me die a death with pride.”
I found The Change in which he explains why he writes, quite intriguing. I have heard
many writers’ reasons for selecting their profession, but Lucid’s is the most original.
He tells his readers that he writes because of a change in his relationship with
God.
My favorite of Aidan’s poems is A Burning Candle. He has a great deal of wisdom
for so young a person. I am much older than he, and on looking back on my life, find
it indeed is like a burning candle, in which the flame is quenching much too soon.
In The Sands of Time, Aidan writes,
“Man gets older but none the wiser
While the sands of time keep flowing.”
This philosophy is certainly not true for the author. Aidan uses certain expressions
which are particularly apt. For example, in Whispers, he speaks of awakening from
a beautiful dream of love, only to return to his “lonesome slumber”.
Mary Anne is
a different kind of poem. In it, a man sees a great beauty, who responds to his flirting.
At the end of the poem, the writer shocks the reader by revealing that the “real
beauty” is actually a man.