Entry: On Rosies' Waka—the one that started all this

The Poem (as recorded)

My winter songbird 

I long for night to meet day 

With the Spear of Lu 

Pierce the blush-stained sky between 

Lost mornings and cold evenings

📓 Souta’s Notebook — On the Poem That Opened the Realm

Rosie’s poem isn’t just poetic—it’s a waka, a 5-7-5-7-7 emotional structure used in classical Japanese verse. But here, the form functioned as a spell. Longing became fuel. “The Spear of Lú” acted as a mythic ignition point. And when it all aligned—emotion, form, myth, intent—it created a rupture. Or maybe... an invitation.

The Blush Realm wasn’t stumbled into. It was written into being.

In classical waka, utamakura are place-names that hold poetic weight—locations charged with layered meaning. But what if the place doesn’t exist until the poem is written?

My working theory: 

The Blush Realm is an emergent utamakura.

Rosie’s longing etched a location into emotional geography. The word blush is overloaded—color, emotion, temperature, intimacy. The realm is named by the poem. Born of it. Anchored in the semantics of longing.

Emotion = energy Waka = vessel Myth = ignition Longing = place

✎ [Margin note, scrawled in pink gel pen]We was horny.

✎ [Neatly penned reply in blue ink, boxed and underlined]I am literally trying to formalize a new magical theory based on emotional-structural poetics, Fine. “Horny” as a catalyst word. Gods damnit, Rosie.