Dark Soul of the Millennium

Dark Soul of the Millennium
Mel Waldman
World Audience
ISBN: 978-1-934209-41-7
Literary, Poetry, Plays
Reviewed by Dr. Tami Brady

There is a rather varied feel in the collective works of Dark Soul of the Millennium. The majority of the plays (short and extended) have a witty mood. Each of these works tends to take the reader on a journey of the mind in reaction to an event. The events seem quite normal at the time and the conversations quite rational. Then, slowly the reader becomes privy to the catch of the story. Sometimes one or both of the characters are dead, the characters are in some way not quite what they appear to be, or the situation isn’t as mundane as it might appear at the onset. These pieces tend to be fairly light with the primary meaning veiled in humor and irony.
The poetry in Dark Soul of the Millennium takes on a very different tone. Much of this work is dark, somewhat visceral, and hard hitting. Interestingly enough, many of the longer works though very descriptive and thought provoking are not as powerful as the shorter pieces that contain only a few short lines. Perhaps this strong reaction is partly due to the topics of these pieces. A good number of the poems look at the attacks of 9/11 and the atrocities of the holocaust. The primary message here is that we must never forget so that we insure that such acts never happen again.