I hope this was part of his reason for publishing. Each poem subtly tells the reader to go out and make a better world for us all - a little at a time. What the reader does with them is not his business but his vision is not lost. Through works like 'Julian', he tells his own stories while offering life lessons and insights. It is as if he is telling the reader to 'Take me strapped upon your back / And I will follow and help you / Reach your dreams.' Perhaps you will find your center, your healing, your inner beauty, your eureka, your 'Elusive Missing Piece', your whatever you need.

You may not be moved deeply, but you will be moved. There's a continuous balance between melancholy and hope that Cozzi expresses through the imagery of 'Mystery' and simplicity of 'Distance', among others. Few writers are capable of establishing such a connection with their readers but this is what I believe allowed him to offer such a carefully curated collection that any reader can find inspiration in.

By the end of the collection, I felt that I had gotten to know Robert Cozzi on at a deeply intimate level. He's unashamedly personal (a la 'Robert and Jerome' and 'Dog Tag'), grappling with issues we all experience in our own lives ('I'll Never Be Enough' and 'My Back Door'), and shares observations of lives seemingly not his own ('Ed and Gabby' and 'Returning Soldier'). They were the intermittent stories that he so graciously shares between them. In fact, the works I found most moving weren't standard poems at all. Cozzi's poems are not written with the deep introspection or eloquence of but the collection is heart-warming and moving in its own poeticism.

Kaleidoscope of Colors is not a poetic masterpiece.

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