Wabi-sabi Stories

A collection of poems from the haiku, sonnet, and ghazal forms written for as a foolish quest to bleed randomness into meaning and back again, just like this description you are just reading. In other words, this anthology constitutes my exercise in emotional and psychological enrichment through poetry for the sake of both the self and the academy (all of the poems were written for a college course), and each composition is a singularity capsule with their particular, open-ended purposes without any interconnected meaning behind them.

wabi-sabi 侘寂 : (noun) a way of living that focuses on finding beauty within the imperfections of life and accepting peacefully the natural cycle of growth and decay Wabi-sabi. Synesthesia. Whatever words people use to describe this abstract relationship I have with colors. Some colors bring to mind the faces of people I know or memories I have or that one Tumblr post that I found at 1 AM. Sometimes, things will happen that remind me of colors. I'll hear sad songs and desperately try to find a color that knows how I'm feeling. What follows is a rather odd collection of what I associate with each color...

Does beauty fade with time, or blooms anew?

Wabi-sabi(侘寂) - is a uniquely Japanese aesthetic sense 《Gifs and quotations aren't mine CTTRO》