If you've read my art book, you'll know that I am absolutely OBSESSED with a book called "Journey to the West". I've done SO MUCH art, and I just love talking about it in general. I used it for my Independent Novel Study in my senior English class...
Yeah, you read that right. I wrote poetry for this book. There's actually a lot of poetry in the work itself, but that's not the poetry I'm talking about (at least, not yet. some of it is pretty cool, like the battle poetry). I'm talking about poems that my frenzied mind somehow came up with for this centuries old piece of literature that hardly anyone in North America has heard about. Specifically, I've finished three poems and I'm working on writing two more. Anyways, I think the poems are really cool, so I'm gonna share them. They're all written in a very specific form; 3 stanzas with 8 lines each, rhyme written in terms of 4; 1st stanza - suffering, 2nd stanza - character, 3rd stanza - victory. It'll make more sense once you read them.
A Poem for Monkey
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A Poem for Pigsy
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A Poem for Sandy
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The poems for Tripitaka and the White Dragon Horse are still in the process of being written (I've started Tripitaka's, the horse might just get "this is a draconic disappointment", idk yet), so they should be here at some point.
