User:Jomie leung

Jomie Leung is breaking ground with a new ‘feminized’ style of poetry. It is neither feminist nor traditionally romantic in the style of 19th century women poets. Her forthcoming book Poem Was Born in Hong Kong is a fresh piece of work which explores the perceptions of the current crop of hard nosed internationalized Chinese women. It is mercifully without the feminist soap-boxing, self piteous whining or romantic cliches which make a lot of modern women’s poetry annoying. It comes as a surprise ‘interior’ view from such a hard-nosed brusque talking business type and it is unusually sympathetic to us men.

Jomie was born and raised on the Eastern Coast of Hong Kong Island back in the days when it was all ﬁshing villages. Her father was a builder and her mother a devoted housewife with a deep appreciation of classical Chinese culture. As soon as she could walk Jomie was learning classical Chinese dance and as soon as she could talk she was learning to recite classical Chinese poets like Li Bai. At age ten she decided to learn western ballet and at sixteen she was the youngest ever ballet coach to be appointed in Hong Kong.

The stresses and strains of ballet gradually took their toll on her joints, so Jomie moved into business and later industrial consultancy but her love of poetry never left her. In 1999-2000 she started to write poems in English. After only two attempts she had an unprecedented success. Based on her second ever poem in English Live Together she was selected by The International Library of Poetry as one of the 33 ﬁne poets for their anthology but she avoided the temptation to start producing poetry in bulk just to capitalize in this success. As she says

I can only write a good poem when I have a true feeling and nobody can have true feelings all the time. So I just continued in the business world and wrote when I knew I could produce something that satisﬁed me and people who like art and poems. I am glad that people like my art and I was happy to receive nice compliments and reviews from my customers and people around. I love to put modern and dynamic name and art into the businesses, branding or re-branding images. I would provide a worldwide perpetual licence of my name 'Jomie Leung' if my customers accepted.

However Jomie’s artistic aspirations don’t end with poetry. Being easy on the eye, she has managed to pick up more than her fair share of modeling jobs. She also has a signed limited edition of modern art, sculpture, paintings, photographs, prints, drawings. In additional, she has created the ‘MAR of Golden Leafs’ for an auction with start asking price USD 1 Million. She also creates ideas and pitches for the brands. She has received nice compliments from people around the world.