◎ In the Name of Love

The First Name: Mania
Lies                     ---- 18
Let Me                    ----19
Cutters & Sawblades    ----20
I Wish I Could         ----21
A Jar Of Heart            ----22
Bury                ----23
Membrane             ----24
The Rusty Book        ----25
Frustration            ----26
Dribs & Drabs            ----27
Pain                    ----28
The Coin                ----29
The Long Escape        ----30
Our Song                ----31
Enough                ----32
Ribbon                ----33
Devil                ----34
Haunted                ----35
Secret                ----36
The Love You Give        ----37
The 14th Chapter        ----38
Trash                ----39
Split                    ----40
Empty                ----41
The Mountaintop        ----42
Here To                ----43
I Fight                ----44
In Vain                ----45
The Weapon            ----46
Kill-time Therapy        ----47
Cry A Little            ----48
Odd                    ----49
Only If                ----50
Scrawl                ----51
All Alone                ----52
Into The Night            ----53
Very Much On Time    ----54
The Withered Rose        ----55
She                    ----56
Falling                ----57
Maybe Not            ----58
Screw                ----59
It Hurts                ----60
The Solution            ----61
Sin                    ----62
Here & There            ----63
Tears Of Nowhere        ----64
Toss & Turn            ----65
Falling Steps            ----66
The Forlorn Cold        ----67
The Lone Air            ----68
The End                 ----69

The Middle Name: Eros
Once                ----74
Fragrance                ----75
I Think Of You        ----76
Morning Blue            ----77
Insomnia                ----78
Rain                    ----79
Longing For            ----80
The East & The West    ----81
Kotor Heart            ----82
Road Trip            ----83
The Blood Moon        ----84
More Than December    ----85
Fill Me                ----86
The Ferris Wheel        ----87
Give You Poetry        ----88
So Poetry                ----89
Right                ----90
The Wrong Hug        ----91
Mosaic                ----92
Perfect Pitch            ----93
Breath                ----96
More & More            ----97
Lost                    ----98
A Crying Shadow        ----99
Under The Shade         ----100
Secretly In Love        ----101
A Love Letter            ----102
Good Night            ----103
Drug                ----104
Upside Down            ----105
Quit                    ----106
Press Against            ----107
Kisses                ----108
Scent                ----109
Touch                ----110
Blueprint                ----111
Linger                ----112
Will You (Verse I)        ----113
Will You (Verse II)        ----114
Will You (Verse III)        ----115
The Manifest            ----116
The Figment            ----117
The Haunting Night    ----118
A Lifetime A Day        ----119

The Last Name: Pragma
// You are the reason I write //                                ----127
// You are the reason I fall // --- All In Or Nothing                ----128
// You are the reason I await //                                ----129
// You are the reason I dare //                                ----130
// You are the reason I glitter // --- Give You A Sunset            ----131
// You are the reason I cherish //                            ----132
// You are the reason I rise //                                ----133
// You are the reason I drown //                            ----134
// You are the reason I seek //                                ----135
I Will Know You Once Again                                ----136
Timing Knows No Love                                    ----137
Keep Waiting                                            ----138
Don’t Want You To See Me Weep                            ----139
In the Ends of the Earth                                    ----140                    

 

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　　Prof. Chiu Man Yin, Department of English, University of Macau

　　The linguist H.G. Widdowson once said provocatively that the value of poetry lies in its very uselessness. Although poetry serves no practical purpose, it has great value. Poetry is the means by which we express our deepest feelings and most unique insights. Poetry is the language of the soul.

　　One engages in the act of writing poetry for all sorts of reasons but never, I am convinced, for profit.  One writes because one has something to say, impelled by some intuition or emotion to fashion out of ordinary language a unique and personal verbal artefact.

　　The poems in this collection are a labour of love. They were written for no other purpose than to articulate a particular view of life. Together these poems express a poignant and penetrating consciousness engaging with the world that we all share. In these pages, the mundane fabric of everyday life is rendered in fresh and delightful vignettes. Every syllable radiates pure enjoyment of life. The little tippler is, oh so clearly here, leaning against the sun.

　　There is a common tendency to seek enlightenment and meaning in poetry. Such an urge, in my view, should be resisted. A poem should be enjoyed organically. The cadence of the lines, the arrangement of syllables are assembled in a unique order that fuses with the semantics of the collocations. A poem is a globed fruit, as Archibald Macleish says. Enjoy it whole.

　　Miranda Sin I MA, President, Macao Association for the Advancement of English Language Teaching

　　Just like her paintings, Lei Ka Man’s poems pop. Her words explode like fireworks, sparkle like stardust, and finally touch your heart. Her poems are a window that takes you to her world, a world filled with sentiments, adventures, and surprises. In this world, you sometimes smile, but you also sometimes cry. Ka Man’s world is not only made up of words, but also powerful colors and textures, as well as imagination and dreams. Reading Ka Man’s poems always makes me feel like I am talking with her. Her use of “I, you, we” is how she converses with her readers. I appreciate how Ka Man’s collection is full of contradictions about life because as most of us can relate - life is alluring because it can sometimes get contradictory. We may all experience and interpret Ka Man’s world differently, and I cannot wait for you to join me on this wonderful ride.

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　　I was born to write.