Stepping Lightly: The Technique

 

First published as 'The Footstep Method' in Garden of poets (2022) – a Wingless Dreamer anthology that has been available through

Amazon (the link to the listing is embedded in the image below) – this work may be taken as a short commentary on the matter of

'stepping lightly' (and otherwise) in life.

 

 

       

 

 

The original Chinese text is shown below with the English creative translation to the right.

 

 

 

五灵灵灵五五躡

个风风风个个術

要火火火要要

素水水水素素

地地地地地地

水素素素水水

火要要要火火

风个个个风风

灵五五五灵灵

 

 

  

Stepping Lightly: The Technique

 
 Five separate, individual and united

necessary fundamentals:

the background; beauty; thriving; influence;

and effectiveness.

 
 Five parts

important always:

circumstances; financial considerations; brilliance; conduct;

and being nimble.

 
 Quick-wittedness

fans flames

flooding the Earth.

 
 Purity

is the aim, standard and criterion ...

the optimal potential

in each emerging moment.

 
 Being warlike ...

coffins.

 
 Being groundless, mocking and dissolute ...

anger, wrath and rage.

 
 Being worthless and lacking substance ...

raw and plain.

 
 Being demanding, conspiratorial, coercive and obstructionist ...

separation, individuation and solitude.

 
 Inheriting a spirit to reform the misguided through persuasion –

a burning passion (beauty on the inside) –

always invites and promises unity.

 
 Five concerns alone

are vital eternally:

the situation; boon and bane; action; love;

and potency.

 

 

 

 

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]).

 

 

躡術

Niè shù

Follow imparting and expounding

Colored variant

  

躡術

Niè shù

Follow imparting and expounding

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