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Expressions of Poetry by Montice L. Harmon is a beautiful collection of semi-confessional poems that speak about the poet's trials and tribulations. The poems are a kind of motivation for depressed minds and discouraged people to rise above their problems and face the world with a positive attitude.
Most of Harmon's poems are prose poems. He takes prose poems to another level with this collection. The poems all deal with some aspect of the poet's personal struggles - his joys and sorrows - and they connect you with his spirit and inner mind. Poetry need not be confessional all the time but it can most often be the result of some soul-searching or some emotions that are embedded in the poet's mind. Many poems are inspiring for the reader. They help the reader to come to terms with personal tragedies and rise above them.
The poem 'You' is a beautiful expression of love that will touch any reader. The warm thoughts that the poet shares with his loved one are expressed very differently. It makes the reader feel so good. 'What Will I Do' concerns the author's desperation about life and how he overcomes it by faith and determination and changes it into a positive feeling.
The prose style gives more options to be more expressive. It reminds me of the prose poems of Tomas Transtromer where the poems are more like a narration than verses. These poems are also a kind of example for poets wanting to try out prose poems.
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Poetically, Harmon's music has evolved since he debuted in 2000, at the age of fourteen with his MySpace cover release using Eryka Badu's "On & On" instrumental. He cites the song was his first demo he record on his karaoke machine. From that moment he developed a poetic style that gave him a “good boy” image with a “hip-yet-wholesome” poetic appeal. At the age of 24, he dropped his first single, 'Time In A Bottle (Drifting…)' delivering pure spokenword about his trials and tribulations. In 2011, he released "Expressions of Poetry," a collection of Harmon's best work to date. The same year he released ''Who I Am." the single which signified him as a spokenword artist.
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At the beginning of his career, he often cited Brandy Norwood as his biggest musical inspirations. He has cited singers Michael Jackson, Luther Vandross, Stevie Wonder and R. Kelly as being his major vocal influences. Before the age of 17, Harmon had already written over 1000 songs along with poems that eventually won him numerous awards from song writing competitions, poetry contests from online sites such as poetry.com.
Harmon’s initial sound is contemporary Hip Hop and R&B, heavily rooted in spoken word poetry. His lyrics speaks of various types of love, life, and understanding from casual and friendly love to romantic and spiritual affairs. Influenced vocally by Norwood and Jackson, he incorporated a ballad-heavy style and an adult contemporary feel into his urban-poetic-r&b pop sound for the majority of his releases.
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His latest release EP “Love and Lessons” released in 2015. Saw Harmon abandon his soft spoken like appeal for a more adult and sensual edginess. Along with his image, his voice has gone through a major change, trading his low soft rasp voice for a now deeper and warmer voice that has acquired a somewhat throatier, smoky edge grounded in soulful poetry. His music also reflected the change, as songs like “Take My Hand (Come with Me)," "Cold Winter Nights," and "Sad & Lonely" explored more adult, sexual topics, and a sound that blended his previous soft urban-poetry sound with a more heavier influences of garage, glitch, and hip hop electro funk as it is heavily advanced on his sophomore album "Eclipse,” which changes how poetry is created and developed as songs like "Take A Ride With Me," "Forever My Love," "Lay With Me (One Night)" to name a few showcases Harmon's natural singing ability. Following behind many more songs that separates his previous sound into a more distinctive sound. This go round Mr. Harmon invites his alto ego BoSsWRiTeR on his music and dominates Hip Hop and R&B with a new sound no other poet/artist has created with tracks like "Bad," which takes a turn strictly towards Hip Hop music approaching it with a different personality. "Give It Back," opens up and tells a story about the poets rivalry between him-self and his alto ego BoSsWRiTeR. Eclipse released on August 21, 2017.
Harmon voice that has often been described as low, soft, raspy, and husky by music critics and Harmon himself.
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