Bamakoola

BAMAKOOLA is a monumental three‑volume poetic odyssey chronicling a love rekindled after forty‑two years of silence. Composed across seven years and 224 poems, this Double Trilogy traces the evolution of a bond that begins in memory, expands through digital intimacy, and culminates in a metaphysical union that transcends distance, time, and mortality.Book I: Soulmeeting ignites the journey. When the speaker reunites with his first muse, Qi Hong, the encounter unleashes a torrent of memory, longing, and emotional rebirth. Poems move between Cultural Revolution youth, present‑day Vancouver, and the shock of rediscovered affection. Through mathematics, cosmology, and intimate recollection, the poet charts the reawakening of a devotion thought long extinguished-what he calls 'a record‑breaking longitudinal study of the heart’s capacity to regenerate.'Book II: Soulmating deepens the connection into a digital and spiritual union lived across hemispheres. Through WeChat calls, handwritten letters, dreams, and metaphysical imagination, the lovers build a shared virtual sanctuary where desire, philosophy, and devotion intertwine. Their intimacy becomes mythic and philosophical-rooted in quantum entanglement, yin‑yang duality, and the metaphysics of longing. Dreams, vows, and emotional rituals sustain a relationship that defies geography, age, and circumstance.Book III: Soulmelting completes the transformation. The lovers finally merge-body, mind, and spirit-into a single enduring reality. These poems confront aging, mortality, sensuality, and transcendence with clarity sharpened by decades of yearning. Their union becomes a metaphysical truth that outlives the body, culminating in Bamakoola, a private paradise 'small as the screen of a cellphone, but much larger than the whole planet,' where the lovers dwell beyond the constraints of the physical world.Blending lyricism, philosophy, sensuality, and cultural memory, Bamakoola stands as a singular literary monument: a testament to the resilience of the heart, the persistence of memory, and the ways love can evolve beyond distance, time, and even death.