Hommage À Japonaiserie Poem by Ahmad Shiddiqi

(dedicated to Ms. Missa Johnouchi, a Japanese great artist)

very proud
daring stance
luxuriously textures
flattening of surfaces

to unify sea's vast perspectives
an adventure of wanderer's gaze
a plebian scene of ordinary people
interlaced through waves and water

impending crash
a massive yin to yang
swimming and diving into life
repeated hundreds of miles away

(inspired by Katsushika Hokusai's Women diving for abalone)