We haven’t met yet, We were supposed to go to war together; Yet, you went to battle alone, becoming my very adversary. Still, we haven’t met yet, Because I never went to war.
A black cat blocked my path, Facing the movement of the parrots, I have withdrawn my weapons. The sissoo trees have welcomed me into their fold— Whose shadows fall even in the sun, like a drizzling rain. There is no wailing in the sound of the wind, Only the eternal friendship of sunlight, breeze, and leaves. I am now with the fish, we do not have to go to war…
Even then, we are marked for slaughter… Since we haven’t met yet, You haven’t been able to kill me. To destroy me, you are building heavy missiles, Warplanes, even nuclear bombs; While I am weaving a net of sky-blue dreams.
If we ever meet, I will give you the messages of the birds, I will take flight with you like wild geese, I will build nests on new islands; If we ever meet, I will give you love.
We haven’t met yet; You are searching for me to kill, And I am searching for you to love.
The spell of the red flowers in the nursery seeds planted in World War Two Japan in the afternoon shadow of the Japanese Alps in the personality shade of a troubled family a berating mother sending the child to spy on the playboy father sexual obsession and fear sitting side by side by the smooth white river stones, flowers speaking
of the war lingering in the blackout factory thinking of hanging herself throwing herself in front of a train a shrink called her a genius helped her gain recognition planning her escape from self-obliteration from endless revolving in the infinity nets the absoluteness of reality and unreality a proliferation of talking pumpkins only to be reduced to nothingness.
Yayoi Kusama grew up in a small mountain town west of Tokyo in a wealthy, high society family, owners of successful wholesale seed nurseries. As a child she had asthma and a partial hearing loss, and she suffered from hallucinations and periods of depersonalization. Her domineering mother forced her to spy on her father and his geishas, ripped up her artwork and tried to marry her off.
Infinity Nets
The Flower That Blooms In My Heart
Out in the purple fields of flowering spring the blossoms sprung tiny individual faces opened pistil mouths to her, to the child the violets spoke chasing her back to her mother’s house of anger, fighting and a pencil, paper the art supplies her father gave her only escape.
Her spirit floated from her little body wandering the border between life and death a thin curtain of gray like a personal cloud shadowing the girl the young woman bent over body drawing, sketching painting, creating in a wild fever born of desperation reproducing endlessly on the conveyor belt to infinity, net cast over her life, art her creed.
Paintbrush in hand imagination overdrive obsessions crawling mind and body working herself away from madness on an endless highway of fear and visions fleeing hallucinations seeking obliteration following the flowers following red thread on the path to freedom allowing her to live.
Yayoi’s art has been called feminist. It’s been labeled pathological art brut, or outsider art. She doesn’t think it fits any category. She mixes East with West, realism with surrealism, hallucinations with humor and pathos. Her work is eclectic and electric and eccentric. It is her own, unique.
The Scandal Queen of Japan
“Ultimately, behind the impulse to fight is the simple fact that men have penises.”
Repetitive Vision
Soft-sculpture figures by the boatload the couch load the chair load furniture obsessions macaroni mannequins overcoming fear machine-made naked polka dots all the way to her studio across the street her permanent residence a psychiatric ward.
If it were not for art I would have killed myself a long time ago before global fame before legions of fans her alter-ego pumpkin black spots on a pier of plastic and I’m here but nothing in Tokyo infinity in mirrored rooms dancing lights fly up to the super-reality to the unclothed universe all together in the altogether the dissolution of self via immersive obsessions repetitions and intrusions transporting us too to another cosmos.
In the midst of the mid-century avant-garde art revolution, Kusama’s large scale paintings of nets and polka dots caught on. Critics called her work obsessional, austere, disturbing, and a tour de force. She expanded her work to include political theater, fashion design, and body art. Her clothes were sold in Bloomingdale’s, and she appeared on The Tonight Show. But in Japan she was a national disgrace and her family shamed.
Fire Burning in the Abyss
My Eternal Soul
The Manhattan suicide addict starving, suffering the vertigo of nothingness crawling into cold hands no heat, no bed, no money the downtown den of resistance a shimmering veil across reality fate like a chorus of violets launching her like a moonshot into the bright eye of acclaim crowds at galleries, museums drawn to her strange beauty blending personal revelations bare-faced self-promotions branding the self as product art as fiery weapon: Go live your shining life.
Back home in Japan the castle of shed tears a studio down the street from the stark white room at the soft sculpt loony bin in the moon dot aftermath of obliteration of eternity the world’s most successful living artist transcending female Asian identity art genres and cataloging unnecessary boundaries barriers and structures dancing swarms of fireflies fly up and out of this universe showing the route to full happiness to spending everyday every day embracing red flowers.
Yayoi believed that Japan had ostracized her for her mental illness. But she returned there after 17 years in the U.S, famous and successful and so ill she chose to live in an open ward of a Tokyo mental hospital for her own safety. In the 2000s, she collaborated with several brands to share her style including polka dot Cokes and pumpkin-like BMW Minis. She continues to create at age 97 and traveling retrospectives of her work still draw massive crowds.
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Or the corrosive taste of briny eyes with every furtive hello.
But time has done nothing to exempt the heart from
The onslaught of raging waves crushing into
Empty shores –like the old bell ringing
Through my ears at Angelus –
Dusk, our favorite time of day
Before you left without that anticipated
“Look, I’m sorry, okay?” backward glance.
And bells do not have a memory of tunes
For awkward silence, silence, silence.
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Nominated for “Best of the Net 2025” for his poetry, Emeniano Acain Somoza, Jr. considers himself the official spiritual advisor of his roommates, Gordot and Dwight – the first a goldfish, the other a Turkish Van cat. His works have been published in The Poetry Magazine, Moria Poetry Journal, Fogged Clarity, Everyday Poem, Loch Raven Review, The Buddhist Poetry Review, The Philippine Graphic, The Philippines Free Press, Troubadour 21, Full of Crow, Indigo Rising, Asia Writes, Triggerfish Critical Review, Troubadors 21, Gloom Cupboard, TAYO, Haggard & Halloo, and elsewhere. His first book, A Fistful of Moonbeams, was published by Kilmog Press in April 2010. His second, Kleenex Theory, published by Createspace-Amazon, came out in 2015. He is busy anthologizing emptiness and boredom at the moment.
High-Dimensional Wisdom Mentor / High-Dimensional Spiritual Poet / Inheritor of Dongba Culture / Master of Traditional Chinese Culture / Great Master of World Multiculturalism / Donor and Founder, Dean of Yulong Wenbi Dongba Culture Academy / Dean of Aming Gaotu High-Dimensional Wisdom Academy / Philanthropist
Beyond the Firmament
(Homeward Chapter)
Poem By Wan Yilong
Translated By Lan Xin
When the morning star rises in the east
In the starry sky hang countless sorrowful eyes
I open my wisdom eyes and gaze
Beyond the galaxy tears have long been pouring
I whisper to the universe what happened
She unfolds a picture before me
Countless mechs overturn heaven and earth
Countless planets burn with raging war
Myriad races slaughter each other
Billions of lives wither in strife
Ruined walls and fragments turn to glaze
Dead planets only cold iron shadows remain
Surviving star people struggle to forage in black water
All I see is rotten bones
Hungry rushing here and there
Mutated beasts no longer fit to eat
They hunt in packs spread plague
Despair spreads silently in the dust
Desperate beings pray to heaven
A voice echoes slowly
We have stored food
When rows of dark caves are opened
Out step
Men women and children in swaddling clothes
All gasp in astonishment is this our food
The voice replies
They are our clones
I close my eyes in sorrow
The universe whispers admonition
All beings must awake
Every life is a child of the universe
Every soul yearns for ascension
Dark technology will eventually turn on itself
Cold power only destroys life
We are all brothers born of the same womb
Without love there is no universe
Without compassion even destruction cannot be reborn
Love and compassion are the eternal themes of the universe
With this thought even in purgatory
We can be reborn
That scene is the universe’s past
And also the mirror of the future
Mother universe is calling out
Wake up
Greed confuses the eyes
Souls sink in delusion
Love and hate are self-imposed barriers
Greed anger delusion are the cages of the heart
Every planet can be a cage for the heart
Everybody can be a dojo for awakening
Look within you are complete
Every soul yearns for light
Compassion can break the curse of all dark technology
Souls will ultimately live forever at the source of the universe
The ultimate civilization of the world is about to begin
Its name is universal harmony
We come from eternity rush to this moment
Only to wake up the sleeping beings
Live in the present change the past determine the future
The past and the future are but a single thought
I wake slowly from meditation
The morning sun illuminates the mountains and rivers and every heart
From now on I have no choice but to move forward
This is my fate
Is also your fate
And even more the common fate of all beings
Technology must ultimately serve the ascension of souls
Footnote
Taking homecoming as its central metaphor, this poem lays bare the absurdity and spiritual awakening of an age dominated by technology. Mechs and warfare, cloning and alienation unfold in layered progression, striking straight to the spiritual predicament of modern society. Breaking free from linear narrative, it employs vivid visual metaphors and interior monologue to explore the eternal themes of love and redemption, selfhood and the mirrored self. The fate and awakening revealed at its close represent the homecoming not only of the individual, but of all sentient beings.
Note on this poem’s process, from poet AG Davis: Gathering info/data then intuitively applying to matrices that intertwine and reconfigure yet relate on multiple levels of dimensionality. however, these matrices can be read linearly, or reinforced in any manner the reader chooses: my theory is that there should be at the very least resonance/or purely mental vibrance with the words themselves; that although not direct sometimes in apparent semantic content, there is still some para-semantic content, or ur-semantic content that will ‘stick” to make a ”meaning” ”ravel”.
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The Role of Sleep in Academic Performance
Choriyeva Oynur
Uzbek State World Languages University, Faculty of English Philology
2nd-year Student
Abstract
This article examines the important role of sleep in academic performance. It demonstrates how adequate and quality sleep can enhance memory, improve focus and concentration, and support cognitive functions such as problem-solving and critical thinking. It also highlights that insufficient sleep can reduce memory recall, decrease attention, worsen academic performance, lower grades, and reduce productivity. The purpose of this article is to emphasize the importance of obtaining sufficient, regular, and high-quality sleep for effective studying.
Keywords: sleep, academic performance, memory, attention, cognitive functions, reading, productivity, student health, effective studying, overall quality of life
Introduction
Sleep plays a vital role in student health and academic success. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Institutes of Health, adequate sleep is essential for physical health, mental clarity, and overall quality of life, especially for young people. During Student Sleep Health Week, the Indian Board of Education provides resources and recommendations on the relationship between deep sleep and success.
The CDC emphasizes that sleep is crucial for memory consolidation, learning, and cognitive functioning. Students who do not get enough sleep struggle with concentration, problem-solving, and remembering information. This can negatively affect their academic results, lower their grades, and reduce productivity.
Leslie L. Crow, a licensed professional counselor and specialist in BIE’s Student Behavioral Health Program, notes that sleep significantly impacts students’ academic and athletic performance.
“Healthy sleep habits greatly affect the mental and physical health of children and adults,” Crow states. “Sleep influences our emotions, stress management, and overall well-being.”
Main Body
Sleep is essential for cognitive functions as well as overall physical and mental health. According to the CDC, insufficient sleep is associated with increased risks of obesity, diabetes, and other chronic health conditions. For students, lack of sleep can lead to reduced energy levels and greater susceptibility to illness, preventing full participation in academic and extracurricular activities.
The two most common consequences of insufficient sleep are decreased focus and impaired memory. These effects are not only harmful individually but also compound each other. Lack of focus results in incomplete information retention, which is further compounded by inadequate neural connections formed during learning.
Insufficient sleep can reduce both short-term and long-term memory. Short-term memory retains information briefly, such as remembering someone’s name upon meeting them or recalling the last few words on a fast-changing PowerPoint slide. Long-term memory involves retaining information for hours, days, months, or longer, such as remembering due dates or recalling past events. Students struggling with sleep-related stress over classes may benefit from seeking tutoring to improve mastery of the subject.
Leslie L. Crow emphasizes the importance of understanding recommended sleep durations for different age groups. According to the National Sleep Foundation, teenagers need 8 to 10 hours of sleep per night, while younger school-aged children require approximately 9 to 11 hours within 24 hours. Crow notes that many behavioral and mental health issues, such as attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, anxiety, depression, and difficulties in emotional regulation, may be partially or entirely caused by sleep disorders.
To address these challenges, the CDC recommends maintaining a consistent sleep schedule, even on weekends, to regulate internal biological clocks. Additionally, creating a sleep-friendly environment—keeping the bedroom dark, quiet, and cool—can significantly enhance sleep quality.
Crow also provides practical tips to improve sleep:
Go to bed and wake up at approximately the same time every day.
Maintain a consistent bedtime routine.
Use the bed only for sleep.
Spend time outdoors to get sunlight and engage in physical activity.
Avoid screen time before bedtime.
Model healthy sleep habits for students.
Consult a medical professional if sleep problems persist.
By prioritizing sleep, students can improve academic performance, enhance physical and mental well-being, and establish habits that contribute to long-term success. Student Sleep Health Week serves as a vital reminder that adequate sleep is not a luxury—it is a necessity.
Conclusion
There are multiple ways to measure the relationship between sleep and academic performance. Much of the earlier research focused on sleep duration and sleep quality, with mixed results. These measures have limitations—sleep duration is usually self-reported, and sleep quality is subjective. Recently, novel measures of sleep have emerged. The timing and consistency of sleep may have the greatest impact on academic performance.
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