Dream Whispers of the Blue Crystal Woman

Author: Shen Yirulan
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Publish Date: 2006-06-01
Features: A friend of a friend introduced Shen Yirulan and her poems to me. Before that, we were not acquainted because I didn’t use the internet. Later, I learned that she had already published many poems online. Shen Yirulan lives by the beautiful West Lake and describes herself as a "woman who is often intoxicated in dreams." She once "was lost in obsession" in pursuit of "a unique echo in the tenderness." Shen Yirulan writes novels, essays, lyrics, and perhaps even paints. But she writes the most poems, and most of them are published online. Maybe the online medium is more unrestrained, allowing her untamed emotions to roam freely. In this boundless world, her verses race like light, freely traversing between hearts. Her writing is vibrant and rich, with a kaleidoscope of colors that evoke a sense of painting. Shen Yirulan pours all her poems into expressing the one dream in her heart, the one emotion, the one love. In her intricate and dazzling poetic universe, we can effortlessly find a common theme that runs through them, which she summarizes in one of her poem titles: "A Rose Incident Blooming in Autumn hues." This forms the complexity within simplicity and simplicity within complexity in her poetry. To say it is simple is because she writes only about her emotional world. To say it is complex is because amidst a splendid autumn, there blooms the fragrance of spring—warm and fervent, creating a harmonious contrast that gives rise to a unique charm in appreciation.