Fluctuating Life

Book excerpt: Fluctuating Life is a book of sixty (60) poems by Joshua Spencer, depicting, symbolically, the struggles, triumphs and jubilation of the author. Joshua Spencer, a teacher with the Toronto District School Board (TDSB), highlights the challenges, triumphs and jubilation, experienced throughout his life's existence, both in the Caribbean and North America. The work is perforated throughout with symbols, metaphors, personifications, similes, and so on. Joshua Spencer eloquently and touchingly entraps, captivates and motivates his audience's thought processes, to share in his challenges of love, perceived discrimination, economic deprivation and his will in overcoming a serious illness experienced. These poems, a direct experience of his winding life ́s journey, serve as great motivational tools for all who have encountered, or are currently facing numerous struggles and setbacks in life. You will learn how to triumph, how to be resilient! It is also a terrific vehicle of education for adolescents, young adults, and the inexperienced of society. Students of Literature and History will gain significantly from reading and studying from Fluctuating Life as will scholars and individuals of varying backgrounds and cultures.