天马行空

——云南诗人马勇诗歌想象力初窥

◎晁一民（山东）

       读云南诗人马勇诗歌作品，最能打动我的是他诗歌想象力的奔突跳跃，犹如天马行空，灵气尽显，洒脱豪放，大有江河奔腾之势，又如暗流汹涌，富有很强大的冲击力，形成了他诗歌作品的一大特色。

       诗人马勇出生于云南昭通市，1991年毕业于云南农业大学，为昭通市农业科学院高级农艺师，业余爱好诗歌创作，有许多作品发表和获奖，曾出版《闪过的意象》、《朝阳之梦》、《灵魂的眼睛》、《疼痛的心灵与泪花》四部诗集，系中国诗歌学会会员、中华诗书画派重要成员、云南省作家协会会员。

        在他的诗歌作品《神韵》中，“漫向远山的绿叶/表达着自己光合作用的辉煌/构架的诗语模板/闪烁”，绿叶由近向远排列到远山，是何等波澜壮阔，像构架的诗语模板，闪烁在阳光下，诗语，诗境，诗意，都给读者创造出了气势磅礴的生长空间，这也是诗歌的生长空间，更是诗人想象力的生长空间，继而，“海疆/老屋的炊烟/薰暗了黄昏的脸颊”，这脸颊就是天空，“苍穹挂起/照彻宇宙的灯笼”，这灯笼就是月亮，“平原/成了躺着的巨人”，“喜马拉雅山的头颅/紧贴天空”，河流裸露的血管奔流不息/神灵抛下橄榄枝/下界/让人间和顺吉祥”。这神韵，是大自然的神韵，是人间祥和的神韵，通过诗歌中涌现的意象和比拟，展示出诗人想象力的奇特多彩。

         可以说，诗人的想象力，就是诗人的创作天赋，通过熟能生巧，运用艺术化思维，随着经验的积累沉淀出来的，并非一朝一夕形成的思维能力，所以说，诗人的想象力有天生的一部分，大多部分是通过个人的努力探索和学习培养出来的，云南诗人马勇就已经具备了这个能力，在他的多首诗歌作品中都能看出来。

      他的诗歌作品《百鸟云集》“朝阳腼腆/扯块薄云半遮面/羞涩的红霞发布广袤的蓝天/大海试探意欲迎娶/浪花司仪/蜂蝶贺语采点放飞/香江腾跃蜿蜓莅临/疆域口岸/百鸟云集/深海星空/洞房花烛夜”，朝阳能腼腆，薄云半遮面，羞涩的红霞，广袤的蓝天，百鸟云集，深海星空，洞房花烛夜，这些不相干的意象句排列在一起，烘托出了一场盛大的婚礼，这婚礼不是人类能举办的，是诗人通过百鸟云集想象出来的，是铺天盖地惊天动地的，是诗人描述大自然“幸福时刻”诗思泉涌的艺术结晶，是诗人创作灵感爆发后，按照主题思维去想象展现出来的诗歌境界，是诗人通过想象力生发出来的奇思妙想

      《灵禅》同样发挥出了诗人马勇超凡脱俗的想象力：“星晖/勤勉/努力点亮黑魆魆的夜空”，大意是星晖点亮夜空，“古老的流向/携沿岸风情/侧身嵌入大海雄阔的疼痛”这里的大海可以理解为星海，也可以理解为大地上的大海，“坎坷地貌/千姿百态/禾苗纯朴的拔节声清澈见底/生长/苦吟/蓓芽喜悦/神灵弹指间引光河之水/滞留酒杯里的月色/酣畅淋漓”这一段诗句对现实世界做了真实的描述，与“星海”产生了鲜明的对比，一个天上，一个地下，有着天壤之别，又有着共同的关联，酒水一杯，能容纳月色，能容纳虚实，这也是《灵禅》表达出来的哲理思考，给读者创造出一个想象的空间，引发共鸣。

        诗人的想象力最主要的表达方式，是通过思考和联想来完成，把思考和联想的结果记录下来，按照诗歌体裁写作要求，通过艺术加工，才能创作出一首完美的诗歌作品。诗人想象的过程，也是诗歌作品的创作过程，只有抓住创作灵感忽至的瞬间，组词造句，才能创作出一首好诗。

      《袅袅意象》也展示出诗人马勇较高的想象力和诗歌创作能力，“玄空驾雾/穿云而过的鸟群/哨音/轻抹起伏山峦/漫涯消遁/闪电/行大地/雷声追尾/雨，让天下万物喜不胜喜/静夜的风/降低了喘息的呼啸”，云雾，鸟群，山峦，闪电，雷声，雨，风，喘息的呼啸，通过诗人的发现和联想，写出了夏天的物语。“阳光造型/树冠丰茂/意象上扬/探视梯田玉米/吐丝、授粉/我写完/季节变奏曲后/将目光投向巨浪昂首的大海”，这季节的变奏曲，是夏秋交替，诗人通过诗歌意象，讲述了大自然的生生不息和交替轮回，烘托出生命的自然成长规律和顽强的生存状态。

       诗人的想象力完全为诗歌的创作主题服务，如果脱离了诗歌创作主题去想象，毫无约束，那就是胡思乱想，那就是异想天开，会像无根之木，没有生命力。

       诗人的想象力还体现在诗歌的写实、比喻、拟人、夸张等诗歌创作技法的运用，观察和感悟独到，如果没有纵深的联想，没有丰富的想象，要想写出耐人寻味的、动人心魄的、引人共鸣的、词语表达完美的诗歌作品是很难做到的。因此，诗人的想象力决定着一首诗歌的优劣。

        而对于普通人来说，普通人看事物，就是事物，没有联想，没有想象，也很难进入艺术作品的创作状态，更无法开拓读者的想象空间，创作也就失去了价值和意义。诗人的想象天赋赋予了诗人伟大的使命，只有不懈的努力，才能取得璀璨的成果，诗人马勇做到了，他天马行空般的想象力，令人刮目相看。

作者简介

晁一民，本名晁佃荣，笔名大上，山东临沂人。中国收藏家协会会员，中华诗书画派成员，中国国学研究会研究员，中国诗歌学会会员，山东省作家协会会员，临沂市传承书画艺术中心主任、蒙山国画院院长，《当代作家书画家》总编，《中国诗人年度诗歌选集》主编。已出版诗歌理论专著（新诗创作函授教材）《新诗艺术创作初探》。著有随笔集《书画与古玩收藏杂谈》、《学书杂谈》、小说集《情归何处》等多部文集，创作诗歌作品千余首，《天修研究院》（小说电影连续剧）策化师、原创著作者。

Unrestrained Imagination

— A Preliminary Glimpse of the Poetic Imagination of Ma Yong, a Poet from Yunnan

◎ Chao Yimin (Shandong)

When reading the poetry works of Ma Yong, a poet from Yunnan, what impresses me the most is the leaping and surging of his poetic imagination, just like a heavenly steed soaring across the sky. It shows his brilliance, freedom and boldness, having the momentum of a surging river, and also like a turbulent undercurrent, full of powerful impact, forming a major feature of his poetry works.

The poet Ma Yong was born in Zhaotong City, Yunnan Province. He graduated from Yunnan Agricultural University in 1991 and is a senior agronomist at the Zhaotong Academy of Agricultural Sciences. He loves poetry creation in his spare time. Many of his works have been published and won awards. He has published four poetry collections, namely "Flashing Images", "Dream of the Rising Sun", "Eyes of the Soul", and "Painful Hearts and Tears of Sadness". He is a member of the Chinese Poetry Society, an important member of the Chinese Poetry, Calligraphy and Painting School, and a member of the Yunnan Writers' Association. 

In his poetry work "Divine Charm", "The green leaves spreading towards the distant mountains / Express the brilliance of their own photosynthesis / The framework of poetic language templates / Sparkling", the green leaves are arranged from near to far to the distant mountains. How magnificent it is! Like the framework of poetic language templates, sparkling in the sunlight. The poetic language, poetic realm, and poetic meaning all create a majestic growth space for readers. This is also the growth space of poetry and even more the growth space of the poet's imagination. Then, "The coastal areas / The smoke from the old house / Darkened the cheek of dusk", this cheek is the sky. "The firmament hangs / The lantern that illuminates the universe", this lantern is the moon. "The plain / Has become a lying giant" "The head of the Himalayas / Is close to the sky", The exposed blood vessels of the river flow ceaselessly / The gods throw down the olive branch / To the lower realm / Making the world harmonious and auspicious. This divine charm is the divine charm of nature and the divine charm of harmony in the human world. Through the images and comparisons emerging in the poetry, it shows the peculiar and colorful imagination of the poet. 

It can be said that the imagination of a poet, which is the creative talent of a poet, emerges through practice makes perfect, the application of artistic thinking, and the accumulation and precipitation of experience. It is not a thinking ability formed overnight. Therefore, the imagination of a poet has an inborn part, but most of it is cultivated through personal efforts in exploration and learning. Yunnan poet Ma Yong already possesses this ability, which can be seen in many of his poetry works. 

His poetry work "Hundred Birds Gathering" "The morning sun is coy / Pulling a thin cloud to half cover its face / The shy red glow announces the vast blue sky / The sea attempts to propose for marriage / The waves act as the master of ceremonies / Bees and butterflies' congratulatory words are picked and released / The Xiangjiang River leaps and winds its way to arrive / At the territory's port / Hundred birds gather / Deep-sea and starry sky / The wedding night", The coy morning sun, the thin cloud half covering the face, the shy red glow, the vast blue sky, the gathering of hundred birds, the deep-sea and starry sky, the wedding night, these unrelated imagery sentences are arranged together, setting off a grand wedding. This wedding is not something that humans can hold. It is imagined by the poet through the gathering of hundred birds. It is overwhelming and earth-shattering. It is the artistic crystallization of the poet's abundant poetic thoughts when describing the "happy moment" of nature. It is the poetic realm displayed by the poet's imagination according to the thematic thinking after the burst of creative inspiration. It is the wonderful and ingenious idea generated by the poet through imagination. 

"Spiritual Meditation" also demonstrates the extraordinary and refined imagination of the poet Ma Yong: "Starlight / Diligence / Trying hard to illuminate the pitch-black night sky", the general meaning is that the starlight illuminates the night sky. "The ancient flow / Carrying the customs along the coast / Sideways embedded in the vast pain of the sea" Here, the sea can be understood as the sea of stars or the sea on the earth. "Rugged terrain / In all kinds of poses / The pure jointing sound of the seedlings is crystal clear / Growing / Groaning / The joy of the buds / The gods flick their fingers to lead the water of the river of light / The moonlight detained in the wine cup / Heartily and vividly" This section of the poem makes a real description of the real world and contrasts sharply with the "sea of stars". One is in the sky and the other is on the earth, with a huge difference but also a common connection. A cup of wine can hold the moonlight and both the real and the virtual. This is also the philosophical thinking expressed in "Spiritual Meditation", creating an imaginative space for readers and triggering resonance. 

The main way for a poet's imagination to express itself is accomplished through thinking and association. Record the results of thinking and association, and through artistic processing in accordance with the writing requirements of the poetry genre, a perfect poetry work can be created. The process of a poet's imagination is also the process of creating a poetry work. Only by seizing the sudden moment of creative inspiration and forming words and sentences can a good poem be created. 

"Niaoniao Images" also demonstrates the poet Ma Yong's relatively high imagination and poetic creation ability. "Floating in the void and fog / The flocks of birds passing through the clouds / The whistles / Gently touching the undulating mountains / Disappearing on the horizon / Lightning / Traveling across the earth / Thunder chasing after / Rain, making all things in the world overjoyed / The wind in the still night / Reducing the panting and whistling". Clouds and fog, flocks of birds, mountains, lightning, thunder, rain, wind, panting and whistling, through the poet's discovery and association, write the language of summer. "Sunlight shaping / The tree crowns are lush / The images rise / Peering at the corn in the terraced fields / Silking and pollinating / After I finish writing / The variation of seasons / I turn my gaze to the sea with surging waves". This variation of seasons is the transition from summer to autumn. Through poetic images, the poet tells of the endlessness and alternation of nature, highlighting the natural growth law and tenacious survival state of life. 

The imagination of a poet is completely at the service of the theme of poetry creation. If one imagines independently of the theme of poetry creation without any restraint, it is just wild fantasy, whimsical thinking, and would be like a rootless tree without vitality.

The imagination of a poet is also reflected in the application of techniques such as realism, metaphor, personification, and hyperbole in poetry creation. With unique observation and perception, it is very difficult to write thought-provoking, soul-stirring, resonant, and perfectly worded poetry works without in-depth association and rich imagination. Therefore, the imagination of a poet determines the quality of a poem. 

For ordinary people, when they look at things, they are just things. There is no association, no imagination, and it is difficult for them to enter the creative state of artistic works, nor can they expand the imagination space of readers. Thus, creation loses its value and meaning. The imaginative talent of poets endows poets with a great mission. Only through unremitting efforts can brilliant achievements be made. The poet Ma Yong has achieved this. His unrestrained imagination is impressive. 

Author Profile: Chao Yimin, originally named Chao Dianrong, pseudonym Dashang, is from Linyi, Shandong Province. He is a member of the China Collectors Association, a member of the Chinese Poetry, Calligraphy and Painting School, a researcher of the China Sinology Research Institute, a member of the China Poetry Society, a member of the Shandong Writers Association, the director of Linyi Inheritance Painting and Calligraphy Art Center, the president of Mengshan Chinese Painting Academy, the chief editor of "Contemporary Writers, Painters and Calligraphers", the chief editor of "Annual Poetry Anthology of Chinese Poets". He has published a monograph on poetry theory (correspondence teaching materials for new poetry creation) "Preliminary Exploration of New Poetry Artistic Creation". He has written several collections of essays such as "Miscellaneous Talks on Painting, Calligraphy and Antiques Collection", "Miscellaneous Talks on Learning Calligraphy", the collection of short stories "Where Does Love Belong", and has created more than a thousand poetry works. He is the planner and original author of "Institute of Heavenly Cultivation" (novel, film and TV series).