Turbulent Waves: Enigmatic micro-writes cast ashore during a global pandemic

By Verde Mar

Verde Mar wrote Turbulent Waves as a member of Twitter's writing community. Turbulent Waves is divided into thirteen sections or "elements", including "Komorebi," the effect of sunlight filtering through the leaves of trees; "Saudade," the love that remains even after someone is gone; and "Petrichor," the mild and pleasant smell or scent of earth associated with the first rain after a dry spell. Each element showcases enigmatic, melancholic, and in some cases "poly-paradoxical" micro-writes that work within the theme of that element.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Aug 9, 2023
• ISBN: 9798350916201

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TURBULENT WAVES

ENIGMATIC MICRO-WRITES

CAST ASHORE DURING A GLOBAL PANDEMIC

By Verde Mar

Contributing author:

Hidden in Childhood: A Poetry Anthology

edited by Gabriela Marie Milton;

published by Literary Revelations

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Copyright - © 2023 Verde Mar

All rights reserved. This book or parts thereof may not be reproduced in any form, stored in any retrieval system, or transmitted in any form by any means—electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or otherwise—without prior written permission of the publisher, except as provided by United States of America copyright law. For permission requests, write to the publisher, at Attention: Permissions Coordinator.

ISBN: 979-8-350916-20-1

Portions of this book are works of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places and events are products of the author's imagination, and any resemblances to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Portions of this book are works of nonfiction. Certain names and identifying characteristics have been changed.

Front cover image: NASA Cassini photograph

Photograph in Komorebi: Piotr Krzeslak/shutterstock.com

Illustration in Calliope: Warm Tail/shutterstock.com

3D rendering in Saudade: Wacomka/shutterstock.com

Photograph in Retrouvailles: Maridav/shutterstock.com

Illustration in Aphrodite: Algol/shutterstock.com

Photograph in Apprivoisement: Allexxander/shutterstock.com

Photograph in Petrichor: Irina Raduga/shutterstock.com

Photograph in Transcendence: van van/shutterstock.com

Photograph in Turbulent Dénouements: Tracy J. Anderson/shutterstock.com

Photograph in Epilogue: NASA Cassini photograph

All other photograph/illustrations: Verde Mar

Book & cover design: Verde Mar

For Calliope

Stars dance; skies move us

Weaving thought like Calliope

We measure your glimpse

Sandcastling our time here

Poetry a bridge we share.

Contents

Prologue

Light

Komorebi

Calliope

Saudade

Retrouvailles

Aphrodite

Apprivoisément

Mnemosyne

Petrichor

Transcendence

Turbulent Dénouement

Epilogue

Prologue

This is an abridged collection of my enigmatic, melancholic, and paradoxical poems or very short stories that describe the emotional turbulence that we might have experienced during the coronavirus global pandemic, sequestered from family and friends worldwide. Some of them represent songs and tales of my past, others sang to me as I wrote them in the moment.

I’ve organized Turbulent Waves into eleven elements or chapters, in this work. Each element underscores a potential emotional period we can and might experience under turbulent or changing conditions that potentially shape our experience.

If language is indeed a viral alkahest, one that can potentially metamorphosize how we structure thought, perhaps poetry is the vehicle that first opens the door to who we might eventually become. Like everything we bake, including friendships and lovers, tasting our words is like saying hello for the first time; it’s the sound of one hand clapping, and the echoes can follow us throughout time. I hope that you enjoy what I’ve cast upon these turbulent shores and that they open up new doors for you to experience