Various Poems

Easter Eggs

Easter Eggs, Inspiration of the poems, and symbolism behind certain words, phrases, and numbers.

1. 'Daydream' was supposed to be titled 'Rainbow' or 'Kaleidoscope' because of the different aspects of symbolism using colors.

2. Daydream represents 10 colors, '2gether' and 'Sweet Young Love' represents red, 'Tangerine' and 'The Song Is Still Here' represents orange, 'Golden Love', 'Horoscope', 'Night of Thrift' and 'Cloud 9' represents yellow and gold, 'Neon Rings' represents green, 'Aquamarine Sight' represents blue, 'Cerulean Skies' represents indigo, 'Violet Vendetta' represents violet, 'Meet Magenta' represents pink or magenta, 'Prism', 'Love Minions', and 'The Living Light' represents white, and 'Black Flamingos' represents black.

3. Each color in this album represents a feeling or an emotion. Red represents love and innocence, orange represents heartbreak like how red is next to orange, it is also similar to love is possibly next to heartbreak, yellow and gold represents happiness and being special and cherished, green represents eternity and commitment, blue represents separation and indigo represents resolution, violet represents violence and vengeance, pink or magenta represents feminism and women inequality, white represents general ideas, faith and goodwill, black represents racism and the 'Black Lives Matters' movement.

4. 'Tangerine' is inspired by the anime 'Haikyuu!!' which is about volleyball. The main characters in the poem are Kageyama the narrator or speaker in the poem, Hinata the one with tangerine hair and hazel eyes, Atsumu the one with yellow hair and black brows. All of them are characters from the anime and their relationships are pretty much common in Haikyuu!! ships.

5. 'Neon Rings' is a poem for a married couple in our neighborhood, it started with a shared post on Facebook about me giving a line from a poem whoever comments. My neighbor who is married commented, but I don't have a line from a poem that is suitable for her, so I created a new poem for her.

6. Marittes and Susan Bekenemen are relevant and famous names from the Philippines. Marittes is the Filipino version of a Karen and Susan is the controversial woman who threw rocks at a transgender who was just passing by.
Bekenemen is a sarcastic surname which means 'maybe'.

7. A verse from 'Black Flamingos' has words that are sooner be the compilation chapters.

8. The reference I used for the guy in 'Prism' is actually Corpse Husband from the phrase 'veiny fists' which is actually the only thing he only showed so far.

9. January 17 is my spiritual birthday which is the day which I accepted Jesus Christ as my personal savior, and there are only 17 poems in this album to represent the importance of the number seventeen in my life. I also mentioned Taylor Swift Song Titles seventeen times in one verse.

10. I intentionally mentioned the word 'God' seven times which is my birthdate.

11. In 'Cerulean Skies', there was the line, "fast forward to chapter sixty-one" its actually a nod the amount of poems I written since the first album which is 'the power of quarantine'. In total I have written sixty-one poems including the epilogue poem titled 'me?'.

12. There's a verse in the poem 'Violet Vendetta' that has the word 'heaven' spelled only using the first words of each line in the verse.

13. 'Night of Thrift' is inspired by Conan Gray's song entitled 'Affluenza' which is also mentioned in the poem to give credit of what is this poem inspired about.