eclectic muse

Anyone else enjoy a cuppa tea?
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/1572655284-aposiopesis-26-tea

Poetries are like icebergs, sometimes. 
          They're often described as "spilled thoughts", but what ends up on the page is but a small fraction of the thoughts behind it. 
          
          Since having a poet's note section that's 10x longer than the poem itself don't look good on page, I've set up a blog to compile the commentaries for my work, discussing things like the thought processes behind the writing, the inspiration, the choice of poetic form, etc.
          
          This is an index for "The Wandering Wayfinder:" 
          
          https://www.tumblr.com/evangel108/775181922464841728/the-wandering-wayfinder?source=share

After several long months, I finally managed to update The Wandering Wayfinder with a new poem, "Wild Mirrors."
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/1536325045-the-wandering-wayfinder-wild-mirrors-shairi
          
          It is a shairi, or a Rustavelian quatrain, and it was quite a challenging form to pull off.  It is a monorhymed quatrain, consisting of 16 syllables per line.
          
          I didn't quite manage to capture the exact meter (4 sections of 4 syllables in each line), but I hope it could still work as a representation of this beautiful form.

Updated "aposiopesis" with 3 new poems! 
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/1556346493-aposiopesis-22-birdsong
          https://www.wattpad.com/1567941452-aposiopesis-23-morning-dew
          https://www.wattpad.com/1567967576-aposiopesis-24-bamboo-rhythm

It is said that some of the best treasures in life comes from the simple delights we rarely take the time to truly appreciate. I'm publishing a new collection called "Aposiopesis". It's basically a collection of short verses (max. 6 lines) to celebrate the joys and beauty of everyday things.
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/story/390553654-aposiopesis

https://www.wattpad.com/1536323464-the-wandering-wayfinder-silk-festival-shichi-go
          
          Poetic beauty often lies in simplicity, and in this latest chapter of my poetry collection, I tried to formulate my own poem form. Based on the "shichi-go-san", i.e. a traditional Japanese rite-of-passage for children (3 and 5 years old for boys, 3 and 7 for girls), the poem is structured in a three-lined verse with 7-5-3, then 3-5-7 syllables. 
          
          In accordance to the origins of its poetic structure, "silk festival" echoes the themes of growth, maturity, and rite of passage, although I suppose the form should allow greater freedom for its subject.

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          Thanks!

https://www.wattpad.com/1521970289-the-wandering-wayfinder-the-bard%27s-babble-faux
          
          It's been a while, but I've finally posted an update, and I think this is one of my all-time favourite pieces.
          
          "The Bard's Babble" is a satire of a genre/movement I'd like to call "purple poetry", in which poems are laden with celestial, floral, jewel metaphors that evoke lush and vivid imagery, but rarely say anything much beyond vague sentiments and expressions of sorrow, longing, heartache, etc. The metaphors and are functionally interchangeable, and the symbolism can be replaced without significantly altering the mood or tone, which demonstrates style over substance.
          
          "The Bard's Babble" both mimics and critiques this very style. The structure apes the typical form of Shakespearean sonnet (14 lines made up of 3 quatrains and a couplet) but abandons rhyme and meter in favour of melodramatic content.
          
          The first stanza is basically stylistic nonsense, the second hints at the emptiness of such prose, the third directly challenges this phenomenon, and the fourth is a direct rephrase of Shakespeare's epigraph inscribed in the beginning.
          
          Now I'm not saying that metaphors and vivid imageries are bad in and of itself. That is why I continued expressing the verse in ornamented language even when delivering the critique instead of devolving into direct statements of indictments (which would be more a rant than actual poetry).
          
           However, I find that they are much more meaningful--and therefore worthwhile--when anchored with intention, discipline, and care for craft.