The Best Luxury

 

Published in Still, I rise (2022) – a Wingless Dreamer anthology that has been available through Amazon (the link to the listing is

embedded in the image below) – this work developed into a form of soliloquy through creative self-translation of some thoughts

originally settled in Chinese, Latin and Old Norse.

 

 

       

 

 

The English text is shown below.

 

 

 

The Best Luxury

 
 “The best luxury is the objective –

composing, encouraging readers and acquiring extraordinary clarity

is success …

alongside expediting great aspirations

concerning exceptional ideals.


“The most above average ‘grade’

is really relaying, expressing, following, describing and echoing

creation –

beginning to grow, doing, exerting oneself, making,

writing, constructing, giving forth and starting.


“Playing, performing (including beating a drum) or encouraging

encourages.


“Read, study and pronounce this –

‘Fetch, obtain, receive and choose

productivity, suitability, contentment and good’.


“Extraordinary, magnificent and robust greatness

is bright, clear, real, the target

and the optimal potential in each emerging moment.


“‘Succeeding in’ or ‘helping to achieve’

approaches, undertakes and completes –

and is exact, precise and just …

in addition to being cautious, meticulous and respectful.


“To advance grandeur

or influence the ‘heart’ and ‘mind’ –

one’s intentions, thoughts and ideas –

strengthens will and determination.


“Writing –

in summary –

encourages readers …

just as venerable and noble deeds

are partial to and favour

warmth, nurturance, support, encouragement, comfort or assistance”,

he wrote

concerning ‘a high path’

and to encourage readers …

his own goal

was to strengthen hope and expectation

towards that attainment

(great abilities, competence and outcomes).

 

 

 

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]).

 

 

كَمِلَ

Kamila

Perfection

Colored variant

  

كَمِلَ

Kamila

Perfection

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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Last modified: 12/18/22