When the universe is in bloom, there are dreams I whisper to you. Soft as a secret and sweet as a player, in a language only we would know. How have you been all these years?(By Annabel, April 2025) Little Updates: How have you been? I am thinking of you. I am well. This quarter,… Continue reading Those Moments…
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Unstory: Like Wind
Life happens in fragments, not stories. It’s only when we decide that certain fragments should link together in a certain way and with certain transitions, a story is made. In that sense, we are the playwrights of our own stories in which we gather the materials (life’s fragments), we decide the progressions (the order of… Continue reading Unstory: Like Wind
A Little Love (from my students)
Little things make me happy.A little grin,A little spring,A little surprise,A little sunshine,A little pink and a little red,A gentle morning comes and goes, A Saturday sitting right beside,the silent symphony in your eyes,the ardent flame burns in my heart.the list goes on and on...A little something is everything I love. (by Annabel, Feb 2025)… Continue reading A Little Love (from my students)
My Ten Years
A morning light, A gentle breath,An unexpected sigh,A moment has drifted.These simple words,this time and place,this quietude when I think of you.It's in the dark,It's in the rain,It's in the silence after pain.A golden ray, A rain drop,A moment peace,A second chance?(Untitled, By @Annabel 2025) It's been a long time since I last posted something,… Continue reading My Ten Years
Beyond Solitude: A Journey Lived
I need my solitude. Without it, I'm groundless.A worldly dream once took it away. We talk of presence and sharing as inspiration, but sometimes that very sophistication we are told to desire is the bringer of disaster. An incurable tumor fermented in the heart. At first, I just wanted to dance, and now I can… Continue reading Beyond Solitude: A Journey Lived
Remember Us
When yesterday speaks, I quietly sit beside you,There's spectacles in your eyes that shine the darkest sky:velvet dreams, relentless passions, and vivacious tempers,and the shapes, space, and shadows you bring into my life. It all casts upon me, a violent-sweet memory. The girl you know yesterday has flown away,radiant in nature's first green and last… Continue reading Remember Us
Today, I AM With Lights
"The body is much smarter and the mind", my one dance master once remarked. I was skeptical at first, but not anymore. With more than two decades experience in dance and embodied practice, I know, without a doubt, that our bodies are sacred, magical, and magnificent in every way. Today, I am sharing my one… Continue reading Today, I AM With Lights
February Delights
Slowly and surely, we are moving towards the end of February. That means another welcoming fresh Spring is on her way to embrace us, with her magic breaths and secret dreams hiding in Iris and tulips. The days will be merrier, and merrier.... Today, I would like to first share a lovely "class advertisement" for… Continue reading February Delights
All I Wish for You (Christmas Birthday Poem to Myself)
When mountain peaks lose edges and rivers no longer flow;When time stops, days and nights melt into one tomorrow; When winter leaves quietly grow red bells and white snows;Every December, I dress in fresh roses and I celebrate you,Your tender smile is my greatest triumph in this life anew. When the Sun no longer rises and… Continue reading All I Wish for You (Christmas Birthday Poem to Myself)
December Again
Every story begins with a silent spark,Every season ends with an afterlife glow,I loved the spring roses, the summer fountain, and the autumn dews,I admired your youth beauty, your tender eyes in bewitching sonnets.To live in this story is to live in a bottomless ocean, free yet breathless;And to love you is to love a… Continue reading December Again
Once in a Red Moon
Once in a red moon, I meet you there. And when you come, You are quiet like the night garden, And tender like the white tulip glow. But the stars in your eyes bright as lions, they lead my breaths astray from earth air, then I am free! I am another breathless moon. Once in… Continue reading Once in a Red Moon
Beautiful
But there must have been a better way: You can show her that she is beautiful. Your eyes quiet as twilight adoring only her moon, Your hands like winds lifting her up from deep sea, Your presence like mountains grounding her stars. Still, She'll rid your sweet words, chivalrous tricks, then show her your devotions… Continue reading Beautiful
The Mystery
I once saw a galaxy of grass knitting the mountain top, strongly, steadily, expanding and claiming territories. From there grew new suns, moons and fresh constellations. They reminded me of you. Your face and your smiles, I only vaguely remember, But Dear, I need not see you to know you are here. Your breath of… Continue reading The Mystery
Twilight Vignette
Here comes the surrender, to the rest of our days, When the fading song that lingers, can be contented with twilights’ caress, and calms the rains on my bewildered face… I am searching for the faraway Greenland of peace, where I might lie beside autumn’s demure rivercrest, dancing wild, shout in remorse and cry at… Continue reading Twilight Vignette
The Promise
Sweet sour autumn rains fall quietly like air, And my flimsy heart is an aimless floating kite, Its purple wings seized my struggling lungs, invisibly buoy me to the rivulets of sunlights. My dreams are mostly dull and silent, Despite the realities are proud and loud, The beauty on earth is so blue, With every… Continue reading The Promise
The Sweetest Burden
Whenever my heartbeats out of rhythm, I secretly blame you, my friend! like a violet in the meadow grew, Bowed to earth, and hid from view: what a strange melody, oftentimes, you’ve sung to my heart's sentiments. Are you caught by bonny youth By that beloved form and fresh dew, By those eyes seem so… Continue reading The Sweetest Burden
The Modern Etiquette 