Selected Poems: Jonathon Best: Dreams magic and life

This collection is not chronological but rather separated into loose categories in a way which I feel best tells the journey I have taken over the last nine years. Part one begins in a dark world of monsters war and evil. It is a montage of visions the main source being nightmares lucid dreams powerful music and the lingering atmospheres of some artworks. A few poems retain references that you may recognize. The second part is my clawing attempt to climb above the gloom. In these poems I explore new ways of thinking whilst questioning the old ones. I feel that this was a rather defining chapter in my life and it went hand in hand with a large amount of philosophical debates sociological criticism and alcohol. Theres also a scattering of wishful thinking as I escape to places either off-world or in my own mind searching for a way to rebuild everything from scratch. Part the third contains a lot less dreaming. It reflects my love for travel despite not having a proper understanding of why I do it. These poems are my way of trying to find out why as well as displaying a few unrealistically ideal outcomes and asking the ultimate question - Is reaching one of those outcomes the purpose of my life?