My second review this one from: Clarion Foreword

Guy Bala’s Memories, Thoughts, and Dreams features poems celebrating common aspects of nature and grieving the end of a romantic relationship. Using symbolic elements . . . seasons, flowers, beauty, and the ephemeral— a falling snowflake . . . winds passage—the author recalls love and loss in plainspoken terms. Arranged in an order that charts a transition from tranquility, in “A Mountain’s Sojourn,” . . . to love and then estrangement, in “Alone,” each poem . . . offers such direct revelation. 

Enthusiasm for poetry as self-expression emerges in the author’s introductory note, contextualizes an aesthetic that favors transparency over gradations and employs emotive abstraction. Here, souls embrace and are immortal. Existence is questioned in the absence of the loved one.

                                                                                      Karen Rigby – Clarion ForeWord Reviews