One's Significant Other: The Fool

The Shuōhuà of the Barn Owl; or,

The Barn Owl concerning black roses, mocking precious

things and libelling fabulous people

The Material Form of Emotion: A Song;

or An Ode to Feeling Rūpa

Wisdom and Appearances

Facebook’s data-mining, Haiku and ‘winning the lottery’; or,

A string of Haiku and 4 translations

First published in New World Writing on 5 February 2022, these five pieces arose in various ways and represent different approaches

to creative translation. Regardless of those differences, however, each explores philosophical concepts in a grounded manner. 'The

Shuōhuà of the Barn Owl; or, The Barn Owl concerning black roses, mocking precious things and libelling fabulous people' is a bit of

a personal favourite – it proceeded from a challenge to "write an Aesop" and an initial reticence to so forcibly direct the creative

process which was, serendipitously, followed a day later by a period of flow that produced the work (life is like that on occasions).

Click on the hyperlink embedded in the following text to see the material in situ at New World Writing.

These works also appear in Arete: Enlightening Poetry and Coloring (2023) with specially designed illustrations (in both color

and grayscale variants [those are displayed below]).

One's Significant Other: The Fool

Mēla

Appointed times

Colored variant

Mēla

Appointed times

Grayscale variant

The Shuōhuà of the Barn Owl; or,

The Barn Owl concerning black roses, mocking precious things and libelling fabulous people

Cetanānām

Consciousness, understanding, sense and intelligence

Colored variant

Cetanānām

Consciousness, understanding, sense and intelligence

Grayscale variant

The Material Form of Emotion: A Song; or, An Ode to Feeling Rūpa

Šəlāmā

Peace, perfection, health, welfare and prosperity

Colored variant

Šəlāmā

Peace, perfection, health, welfare and prosperity

Grayscale variant

Wisdom and Appearances

Humanity

Colored variant

Humanity

Grayscale variant

Facebook’s data-mining, Haiku and ‘winning the lottery’; or, A string of Haiku and 4 translations

俳句

Pái qú

Funny decorations

Colored variant

俳句

Pái qú

Funny decorations

Grayscale variant

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

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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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