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Online website banners usually occur in 2 categories. The first form is the traditional advertisement banner, normally used as a means to promote a website, as a click on the banner takes one to the advertised site. The second variety is discovered at the top area of a regular website - the site header area. This location ordinarily familiarizes a visitor to the site with a title, possibly a secondary strapline, and some images to help theme the website. Advertising and website header banners serve fundamental roles in both delivering people to a site, and helping make a website “sticky” - by informing them simply with the underlying purpose of the website, and enticing the individual to peruse the website further, employing compelling imagery / strapline text.

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And as transparent as all this may be, a misapprehension many websites make is to assume every website visitor will know such information before-hand. One should not take for granted that the visitant knows such info, so you need to squeeze the website visitant’s hand in those vital first 3 or 4 seconds they visit your site.

The public has had a love/hate relationship with graffiti. On the one hand, talented creatives such as Banksy have made walls a place to put a political point across, utilising stencils to create challenging graphics loaded with a nuanced political point. This sort of graffiti was bound to get fashionable with both the masses and the art critics : attention-getting to both eye and intellect. This type of graffiti is even bought as prints on canvas, and hung in suburban households and corporate meeting rooms.

Yet, what of the familiar variety - the tagger, the gangbanger kind - this kind of graffiti is often seen as vandalism, an offence committed by the talentless. However misinterprets graffiti as strictly art. To many people, it’s not only art, but a method to put your stamp on territory, or even a two finger salute : anti-social, anti-art, anti-establishment.

Spraying has invariably been an underground activity, even though the results are public facing. The targeted audience is often unbeknown. Is it for a rival gang? A communication to a single person? To the public? Perhaps it’s just gratuitous and out of nothing to do.

Whatever the causes may be, there appears to be some kind of continuous demand to spray graffiti on walls. Some city councils have admitted that graffiti isn’t a fad, so they’ve designated areas where graffiti is allowed - normally uninhabited areas, but from time to time more civic zones like temporary boarding surrounding urban construction sites.

Title: Moods in Motion

Entertaining Read …….. Recommended 5 stars

The Review

The stanzas open with a lyrical work: You in You: I see you in everything But what I love the most Is to see you in you. The reader experiences the bitter sorrow of Poisoned Pen, the binary love of Saviors Arms as well as the embracing warmth of the sun in Beach Thoughts. We feel the poignant longing of the Blind Poet : He imagines rainbows within his shadows And senses gods presence upon his shoulders. the End of the Line leads the reader to the portal at the end of the rainbow. We Ponder the wonder of life as we read Born for a Reason. Sometimes it is better just to start Entirely over, Entirely Over and other times We are searching for a shadow Inside a galaxy of stars. Finally we close our reading sitting for hours in the Ghost Garden.

On the pages of Moods in Motion Lyrist Forese has created a tantalizing publication of 50 of some of his finest elegies. Verses extending across seventy pages entice the reader with a diversity of deeply felt sonnets penned about a far-reaching melange of the authors favorite subjects. Lyrist Forese’s passion for life flows from the page to the reader as these poems are enjoyed. Stanzas filled with warmth, perspicacity and contemplation are included in this picturesque arrangement. Readers, regardless of whether they are admirers of poetry or not, are sure to take pleasure from Moods in Motion. Lovers of poetry will unquestionably be exhilarated as they find themselves stopping often to relish a statement or a passage before going on to the next appealing tidbit.

Poet Forese has an extraordinary aptitude for taking the everyday issues of life and turning them into an irresistible work. There is something for everyone in Moods in Motion. Accomplished, piercing, words to enrapture, and thrill are offered as Poet Forese draws upon the adventures of life to give rise to an opus of lovely work. Romance, life lessons, enlightenment all are communicated to the heart of the reader in most good-natured and calculable manner. Readers will be sure to be transformed in a very tangible way while reading the words offered by this perceptive, straightforward poet.

Moods in Motion is meant to be read and then taken out often for a re reading as craving and fancy strikes. Bard Forese demonstrates his idyllic genius in this exquisite little work. Each refrain only gets better.

It is the belief of this reviewer that Moods in Motion should do well in specialty/gift type shops as an offering when a unique gift for a particular person is essential. The work will lend itself well to the homeschool library for middle grade to high school age readers as they begin to explore the world of poetry for themselves. With the writer’s permission I plan to lift a poem or two for use in my fourth grade classroom as we begin to write some poetry for ourselves.

Lovely book for a long winter afternoon or a quick poem or two while waiting for the light to change during a busy day.

Enjoyed the read, happy to recommend.

Genre: Poetry

Author: Robert Jude Forese

Line/Publisher PUBLISHAMERICA, LLLP

ISBN: 1-4137-8226-4

Writer, Teacher, Reviewer, Parent, Boy Scout adult scouter