Poems
Puzzles
My fascination with puzzles began much earlier than my journey into poetry. Since kindergarten days, my mother, a puzzle enthusiast, has introduced me to the wild realm of brilliant colors, lines, shapes within little cardboard and plastic pieces.
Finding similarities between assembling visual pieces and linguistic symbols, I bridge my favorite family puzzle completions and my passion for poetry through ekphrasis — imagining a poem out of the picture.
Ballooned in an azure blue,
Antique meets the cyber new.
Pagodas rise, lanterns float,
Water falls still like crystal.
An archaic metropolis operates its buzz,
Bringing old into new, shadows to the sun.
Skyscrapers top the sky,
waking history in Neon flickers.
A new day breaks.
Green dazzles bounce off the morning sycamore,
Her silhouette sits in solitude, with
The house cat in quiet distance,
Their shadows dancing in the rustle of leaves, a long day's refrain
Lost to the cut of simpler times.
Flapper wings flutter
In the wind
Spiced by flowers
An enigma of green lake water,
Dreamscape.
Family Pride!
Below are all puzzle pieces I have completed with my mother, and sometimes dad, too, who's not interested in the activity but still willing to spend time making fun with us :)
We have created over 100 pieces over four years!
