Ang librong ito’y tungkol sa mga kapwa kong alagad ng sining. Minsan tayo’y may pinapaniwalaang mga bagay na basta na lang nating tinatanggap porket uso o may nakapagsabing tao satin nito na ating tinitingala o nirerespeto. Ngunit kailan ba natin sinigurado ang mga alam natin? Hindi ba da’t lagi nating suriin ang mga paniniwala natin tungkol sa isang kaalaman lalo na kung ang pananaw natin dito’y hindi pa ganung ka subok. At marahil hindi naman sang ayon sa alam nating totoo?
Ang mga tulang ito’y mga hamon sa ating opinion. Para masubukan lalo na ang ating paniniwala sa ating obra at ang pagkakaintindi natin sa kabuuan ng mga nakikitang likha, katha or mga tao sa sining. Para natin malaman hindi sa pananaw ng iba, kundi kung ano ang maganda sa ating sariling mga mata.
POETRY DIARY 2024 - In 2024, I challenged myself to write a poem a day, from January 1st to December 31st, up to 11:59 PM. My usual way of writing a poem was, writing down a few lines and leaving it for a few days or months, maybe years, until I was ready to add something to it. And even then, I usually discard the poem if it doesn’t lead to my liking when finished or if I couldn’t add anything to end it at all. I’m usually able to write about 10-15 complete poems a year, and if I’m able to collect 33 finished poems, I self-publish an independent poetry book like my Bunshin series.
As for my Poetry Diary Challenge of 2024, I was able to finish a total of 503 poems. I was able to write to the end of the poems as soon as I started, which was something I never thought I could do, forcing my way to write a finished poem on the spot in less than 5 minutes most of the time. And it didn’t at all feel forced; if anything, it felt more spontaneous, and the ones I wrote like these are the ones I really liked. I still wrote fragments of lines as a start of a poem and left them to be finished another day, but these too were finished quite easily once I got to them. I plan to release these poems this year, in 2025, and I have divided them into 14 separate books with an average of 35 poems per book. This book you hold in your hands is one of them. -Marius Black
