The central idea: to start, open and expand

 

First published as 'Recipes and Creative Innovation' in My Glorious Quill (2022) – a Wingless Dreamer anthology that has been

available through Amazon (the link to the listing is embedded in the image below) – this work might be considered a relatively

brief commentary on genuine creativity, formulaic construction and bindú (the point at which creation begins with the potential

to manifest unity).

 

 

       

 

 

It was originally rendered in the Chinese text shown below (with the English creative translation to the right).

 

 

 

的以十性式獨一中

這及分圖和創半心

種十之像結性的思

 分一和構第創想

 分清結的三造打

 之晰構連种力開

 一度的貫形和歌

 

  

The central idea: to start, open and expand

 
 Half accomplished,

creation's power is an echo.

 
 Innovation is innate.

 
 Most

repeatedly foster formal processes

to produce the objective ...

piecing together content.

 
 Picture 'the sum' constructing –

clearly –

perfect components ...

duty, allocation differentiation and destiny.

 
 This –

unexpectedly and singularly –

is distinctly akin to

a prayer to save a soul from purgatory,

the tomb or

'convention' ...

as well as the utmost

division and separation.

 
 Sprouting only the aim, standard and criterion

(the optimal potential in each emerging moment)

welcomes, greets and receives

sowing, growth and cultivation.

 

 

 

This work also appears in Arete: Enlightening Poetry and Coloring (2023) where it is published with specially designed illustrations

(the color variant accompanies the literary work and the grayscale variant is shown separately [both are displayed below]).

 

 

Falsum īdōlō

A false idol

Colored variant

  

Falsum īdōlō

A false idol

Grayscale variant

 

To purchase a copy of Arete: Enlightening Poetry and Coloring (2023) through Amazon, click on the hyperlink embedded in the

image below.

 

 

 

To purchase a copy, click on the

hyperlink embedded in the image

above and order through Amazon.

  

Arete: Enlightening Poetry and Coloring is a coloring book

for adults with a twist. It presents timeless, relevant and

entertaining poetic commentaries with over 40 specially

designed illustrations prepared by the author using

text-to-image AI programs informed by the poetry.

 

Color variants of the designs appear with the poetry and

grayscale variants are shown separately. Intended to

provide an immersive and interactive meditative

experience, the collection will nourish the mind and

soul.

 

Beginner and advanced colorists alike will find the range

of illustrations satisfy, challenge and extend their skills –

and provide ample opportunity to reflect on the matters

explored in both the text and images.

 

The poetry shown includes a portion of the author’s works

that were first published in online and traditional print

anthologies and magazines including: POETiCA REViEW;

Impspired; New Note Poetry; The Antonym; Written Tales;

Ygdrasil, A Journal of the Poetic Arts; Wingless Dreamer

anthologies (My Glorious Quill, Garden of poets, Still, I rise,

Let’s begin again, Oxymorons and poets, Midsummer’s Eve,

War scars in my heart,  Mother, a title just above queen,

Ink the Universe, The Black Haven, Summer Fireflies,

Paranormal Whispers and Sea and Seashore); MindFull,

New World Writing; Red Door Magazine; A Poem A Day;

Mercury Retrograde; Family; and Soul.

 

 

 

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