Mother’s yearning; or ‘Mother’ is the goal

to yearn for and cherish

 

 

Published in War scars in my heart (2022) a Wingless Dreamer anthology that has been available through Amazon (the link to the

listing is embedded in the image below) – this work arose from the creative self-translation of material originally composed in Chinese.

 

 

       

 

 

 

 

Mother’s yearning; or ‘Mother’ is the goal

to yearn for and cherish

 
To pity

is sad and sorrowful –

as is sympathizing, mourning and lamentation …

like being orphaned

by the passing of one’s mother.


Sad memories

of the deceased

are the mother

of thoughts, feelings, yearning and hopes …

in addition to

lamentation and grief.


Wailing grief

is painful –

physically and mentally …

it is also thorough, lamentable and pitiable.


Miserable and bitter sadness

is difficult and disabling.


Melancholy

has a sourness

reminiscent of being sick-at-heart –

or sometimes –

stingy, miserly and narrow-minded …

and even satirizing and ridiculing.


To be a bit envious, sad or jealous

is akin to achingly sour pedantry …

the type of pedantry

that warms, pilfers and escapes

rapidly and violently.


Anguish –

including that linked to outcomes –

feels excessive thoughtless veneration

concerning pain and suffering

and that which is clear and distinct …

and occasionally,

about what is bright, gorgeous, vulgar or unrefined.


Sadness

is sorrowful

and feels

excessive thoughtless veneration

concerning

pain and suffering

and that which is clear and distinct …

and occasionally,

about what is bright, gorgeous, vulgar or unrefined.


Sadness

is sorrowful

and feels excessive thoughtless veneration

concerning

regret, remorse, responses, influence, affect, touch,

arousal, thoughts, sensations, emotions, yearnings

and even the wind

or the temperature.


Sadness

is like a battle-axe

or a relative of regret …

and resentment.


To pity

affect, touch and arousal –

or other thoughts, sensations and emotions –

is to feel excessive thoughtless veneration

towards

regret and remorse …

it is like thoughtlessly and excessively venerating

corporal punishment with a cane.


Pity

may be vulgar and unrefined.


Pity

can be fawning, flattering, flowing or prompt –

and may even be summoned or called for …

a neighbourhood

that may be sad and grief-stricken,

or sour, spoiled and rancid.


Plaster or daub

that flatters, snatches and sneaks

off is stingy, narrow-minded, ridiculing and satirical.


Sadness and grief

strenuously and painstakingly

feel

thoughtless and excessive veneration

towards the sorrowful.


Hurting or causing pain –

including abhorring or being hateful –

is vulgar and unrefined ...

it is sorrowful thinking.


Mother

yearns for sympathizing …

natural and apt

sympathetic and compassionate

feelings.

 

 

 

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]).

 

 

Inhumanity

Colored variant

 

Inhumanity

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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