The Soundless Symphony is a collection of poetry that covers themes of inner fracture, romantic ache, fantasy realms, and the wonders of the natural world. Why was this an important collection for you to share?

After writing from a place of instinctive emotion and creation, I wanted to reveal the experience to other readers to feel, reflect, and interpret in their own way. The collection is varied in its themes but still emotionally and atmospherically coherent. It’s also open enough to invite rather than to only tell. 

I understand that ambiguity will circle the collection because of such an approach, but I see it as a glowing gateway rather than a path of darkness. Although I do accept that ambiguity can be a trap for writers as well as a tool, yet it’s often the readers that decide which one you chose and whether it was successful.

I do enjoy the deep aspects of such an approach which allows for thinkers and wild imaginations, all the while still holding shape and intention. It’s also an intent that I hope to share with my readers.

Are you someone who writes from inspiration, discipline, or a combination of both?

Definitely more from inspiration, though that can be as frustrating as it is wonderful at times. Yet that very nature and unpredictability of creativity are what make the gift of creation so rare and special.

Often, as with many writers, my work carries my influence of life experiences. I do believe inspiration needs a tide to carry the ethereal muse.

Although I naturally lean towards the lyrical as my voice is innate in that sense, I still really appreciate the depth and soft interpretation that vivid imagery leading from that instinct encourages. I feel it gives you the ability to weave both feeling and seeing into verse which endures in a lingering and atmospheric way.

Mythological and fantasy elements appear throughout the collection. What draws you to those worlds?

I love to read about the Greek and Roman gods, goddesses, and mythical creatures just as much as I love to read Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and faerie lore.

The myths and legends often hold elements of human nature, morals, and sometimes hard-earned truths. At the same time, the other-worldly essence that lingers in the stories and their golden threads gives them a glittering allure that draws and holds my gaze. They allow both the glimmer of reality and escapism of fantasy to intertwine, and that is something that has always fascinated me.

If readers could take away one message from the collection, what would you hope it would be?

For me, I would say it’s about seeing the truth often veiled, whether by ugliness, beauty, silence, or sound. As for the readers I feel each deserves to reach for and to find their own inspiring message.

This is the first and opening volume. Poems of lost innocence, yearning, and the beauty that masks the truth and turmoil beneath. It is the beginning of the seeking journey, preparing to step into the later darkness. As with life, the feelings and messages are bound to change.

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