Week 10 Blog
Nadya Saptono A01

This week’s poem really stood out to me, it is titled “My Kintsuki”. It is a Japanese word meaning “to repair with gold”. The Japanese language is full of colorful metaphors like this, it is used to describe shattered pots that are mended with gold and silver. Hence highlighting the breakage and celebrating it.
In the first stanza of the poem, how she tried to calm a storm with a storm and soothe anger with anger. But she realized that it is not working, she has to take a different approach she cannot do to them what they did to her. She has to rise above and choose not to engage. It is the only way that she will find peace. In the poem, she also wrote that she will not give up “until the rivers run free and the mountains no longer slide”.  But these occurrences are almost impossible in nature, meaning that she will never give up. The poem also wrote about His Holiness, so I am assuming she deep religious roots as well, which may explain where she gets her strength and motivation.

Question: Sometimes fighting a battle that seems impossible can be very tiring and unfulfilling. How to keep going?

References:
https://edsd.org/guidelines-for-writing-prayers-of-the-people/

Valverde, K.-L. C., & Dariotis, W. M. (2019). Fight the tower: Asian American women
scholars resistance and renewal in the academy. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers
University Press.