There’s something truly beautiful about the way of the world, if we can just understand it. In Blossom and Bone you can see what it is about the world around us and about each of us that is so beautiful and wonderful. Understanding the wonder of each person that we meet and the mix of emotions, whether pain or shame or love, is an amazing experience. The price of life and the price of death within these poems are very real and very wondrous. For anyone who is looking for a new view of everything around them, this is the way to go. Written by Nicole Lyons, this is a collection that will captivate you right from the first poem and will keep you going until you get all the way through to the last word.

In a series of long and short poems, the author makes a huge statement on beauty and amazing experiences. Even more, Nicole Lyons is able to create remarkable imagery that makes you think even harder about everything around you. Exploring everything in the world around us, and even the way that we relate to everyone and everything around us, is an amazing experience. This is a wonderful book of poetry that makes it much easier to imagine and to picture each aspect. You can see the night, feel the shame, and imagine the feeling of death or loss. Altogether, Blossom and Bone is a collection that’s going to make you really think.

Blossom and Bone by Nicole Lyons is an insightful and profound collection of poems in which the author bares her soul to readers with excellent use of imagery. The poems deal with wide ranging topics like heartbreak, passion, melancholy, hope, and many other emotions that everyone deals with in life, and they are also a depiction of the poet’s life. Her heartfelt emotions are palpable through her verses. Though some of the poems are sad and painful, there are a few that give readers hope and comfort. Reading the poems in this book is therapeutic and will help readers come to terms with life, thereby taking them on a path of healing and redemption.

The poems are beautiful and intense, and will make readers contemplate and reflect more on the intricacies of human emotions. Nicole Lyons summarizes her melancholic feelings in just three lines through the poem Melancholy. "Melancholy, my longest/lost lover has returned,/to dance with me, again." The wordplay is simple but conveys a deep sense of pain and angst effectively.

Though many of the poems are sad and poignant, there is a thread of beauty that lingers silently in the words that make Blossom and Bone memorable and captivating to readers. I like the way Nicole Lyons has explained that bit in her last poem ‘It’s Only Poetry’. This is definitely a must-read collection for all poetry lovers out there because the poems are amazingly wonderful and Nicole Lyons' unique perspective on feelings and emotions will leave you wanting to read more of her thoughts and words.