No rhyme, no reason
There’s a beautiful piece of prose in a Thai poem that reads: “Kavee rue lang laeng Siam” — (Siam never runs out of poets). Composed over 120 years ago by Prince Paramanuchit Chinoros, the verse is part of Samuta Koj Kam Chan, and it describes the golden age of Thai literary culture, in which poetry was ingrained as part of people’s speech. It was a time when rhyme and stanza were infused in…