序言：与季节押韵，将日常铭刻为诗歌

When winter’s dawn spills through classroom windows, gilding the frozen motes of time between desks with silver frost; when March winds, heavy with peach blossoms, sweep through the corridors, and wind chimes waltz with newborn willow catkins in dappled light; when May’s raindrops whisper against the library’s gauze curtains, staining the fluttering pages of Gitanjali with hues of lime-tinted tides—Sarah Wan Qianyu of IG1 paints a flowing scroll of the seasons, her brush dipped in the ink of the co-curricular activity Words and Horizons.

A contender for the Forbes Project and the architect of a literary healing initiative, she bridges generational divides with the boldness of a leader and the tenderness of a poet, transforming her fervent love for verse into a shared creative odyssey. From early spring to late spring, this five-month experiment has blossomed into both a nascent campus poetic community—where words serve as oars, guiding unspoken yearnings toward harbors of understanding—and a poetic incubator for innovative humanities education, dismantling solitude through cross-media creation and reimagining the ordinary in intergenerational collaboration.

Origins: From Seven to Seventeen, Weaving Life’s Tapestry with Words

Sarah’s poetic journey began quietly at seven. Over the years, she has filled a dozen notebooks with musings, her devotion to the written word unyielding. At sixteen, she published her debut collection, Waiting, a chronicle of inner landscapes and philosophical contemplations from the age of twelve onward.

Now, she channels this passion into Words and Horizons. In the short term, poetry becomes an emotional prism, refracting complex feelings through metaphor and imagery, guiding participants to confront their inner selves and answer life’s silent cries with language. Long-term, she envisions a sustainable campus poetry society, weaving literary healing into Yew Wah’s cultural fabric—a timeless legacy rekindling love for verse in an era fragmented by information overload.

Highlights: Intergenerational Poetic Resonance, Reconstructing the Everyday

Words and Horizons ignites cross-age poetic synergy, dissolving barriers through creativity. Younger students unleash untamed imagination, while older peers delve into existential themes, ascending from childlike wonder to philosophical depth.

Signature projects amplify poetry’s allure:

Collage Poetry: Resurrecting discarded book pages and newspapers into surreal verse, participants curate linguistic fragments, easing creative anxiety.

Outdoor Sketch-Poems: Marrying visual and poetic improvisation in nature, where verses mimic the wind’s shape, a leaf’s veins, light’s breath.

Relay Creation: A blind first-line lottery followed by timed continuations, weaving individual strokes into a collective tapestry.

Thematic Blank Verse: Open prompts like loneliness or envy invite deliberate negative space, leaving room for boundless interpretation.

Impact: A "Poetic Proposal" for the Forbes Project

Sarah’s Forbes submission framed literary healing as innovative therapy—using guided writing to mend minds. Praised by judges, her project validated Words and Horizons’ societal relevance, positioning Yew Wah’s poetic pedagogy as a model for urban emotional infrastructure, extending poetry’s reach beyond campus.

Anthology of Moments: Cosmic Verses Hidden in Life’s Creases

Recent sessions have yielded gems:

Roy (G3) on Color:

"Life turns gray in monotony, / but blooms in rainbow hues / when family gathers."

Steven (G7) on Spring:

"Blossoms are shattered pink diamonds / reassembled by sunlight."

Kim (G4) on Life:

"Often I wonder— / as I smile toward the horizon, / down twilight paths, / through silent wilds, / past laughing waves... / Who can tell me what love is? / Not the wind. / Not the rain..."

Epilogue & Preview: Next Stop—Collage Poetry’s Time-Space Mosaic

Words are nets, capturing overlooked beauty; poetry is the glue that reshapes time. Each line in Words and Horizons refocuses life’s lens, each creation a tender deconstruction of existence.

Coming Next: Dive into the whimsical universe of collage poetry—where newspaper clippings, ticket stubs, and ad fragments coalesce into time-space anthologies.

Join Us: Whether you’re an observer of the mundane or a scribe of the soul, we welcome you to this dialogue between the self and eternity. Contact Sarah (IG1) to embark on this poetic odyssey.