Okay, don't just scroll social media everyday. Do something useless.
How about GloPoWriMo 2025?
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names
what is the pub's name again?
the one in the east coast?
a live band of Filipinos
with a lovely lady singer.
remember, you always walk up
to that singer with a slip of paper,
your neat handwriting,
for a song request.
there are always wolf whistles
because your skirt is so short,
and your legs so long.
we drink our brandy,
the band plays your songs,
at times we sing along.
sometimes we leave early
to catch the last bus home,
other nights we don't,
we walk under the stars,
the street lights glare jealously,
the old rain trees sigh,
but now
after a lifetime,
i cannot remember that pub's name
but i remember your's clearly,
because
it is carved
in gilded letters
on a marble slab.
04/04/2025
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qingming
thanks to napowrimo.net for the badge
no prompt needed. just wrote this in the middle of the night.
Okay, don't just scroll social media everyday. Do something useless.
How about GloPoWriMo 2025?
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A portrait of Kaneko Misuzu
It must be those eyes,
like dark coals
staring into the echoes,
a certain fleeting sadness,
as if she can see
into the future
her later unfortunate life,
that draws me
to the portrait.
"We're all different, and that's just fine"
01/04/2025
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The early-bird prompt at napowrimo.net was to write a portrait poem. I wrote it on the first day of NaPoWriMo, but other urgent things took over and I have to post it on the 2nd.
Kaneko Misuzu (1903 -1930) was a Japanese poet known for her poetry for children. She was celebrated during her lifetime, but her works fell into obscurity after her death.
I may like to compare her life with that of Adelaide Crapsey (1878 - 1914), the inventor of the cinquain. Both were ardently pursuing their art during their brief lives, but their popularity waned after their deaths. Fortunately for us, their poetry were not lost.
Random artworks I find in the streets, underpasses, parks. No transit stations. No museums. Well, sometimes.
They would include paintings, murals, sculptures, statues, structures, and temporary installations.
Can I call this an art installation? I just adore the Minions.
photo by dsnake1
beauty is in the eyes of the beer holder
Bello, do you prefer avocado or pistachio gelato?
01/07/2024
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Location : Outside a house in Volendam, The Netherlands
Random artworks I find in the streets, underpasses, parks. No transit stations. No museums. Well, sometimes.
They would include paintings, murals, sculptures, statues, structures, and temporary installations.
It is not everyday you walk into a mall and say "Wow!".
photo by dsnake1
you think the lines bend but they are parallel
in a parallel cosmos you an I could be more than a shadow
Random artworks I find in the streets, underpasses, parks. No transit stations. No museums. Well, sometimes.
They would include paintings, murals, sculptures, statues, structures, and temporary installations.
I was glad I visited the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam during the winter of 2023. To look at the works of these movers and shakers of contemporary art is to try to look into the minds of the masters.
photo by dsnake1
you scratch my back, i'll scratch yours.
evening -
the flutter of wings
returning to the eaves
27/05/2024
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Location : Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Artwork Title : Suspended Composition of Small Leaves (Four Red Spots)
Type : Mobile
The Artist : Alexander Calder (b. 1898, USA; d. 1976 USA )
Ramdom artworks I find in the streets, underpasses, parks. No transit stations. No museums. Well, sometimes.
They would include paintings, murals, sculptures, statues, structures, and temporary installations.
Well, you wander into a school and wonder at what these kids can paint.
photo by dsnake1
it seems you have not left at all
persimmons at the altar -
luscious and firm
like you in life.
Ramdom artworks I find in the streets, underpasses, parks. No transit stations. No museums. Well, sometimes.
They would include paintings, murals, sculptures, statues, structures, and temporary installations.
Paint residue rolled into tiny rosettes, cut and sliced and reattached onto the canvas.
photo by dsnake1
jellyfish and whisky don't mix
I have been trying very hard to get rid of these worms in my head.
07/06/2024
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Location : Singapore Art Museum at Tanjong Pagar Distripark
