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My name is Joy, and I love to write. Why poetry, here? Because poetry uplifts its writer, and if she is lucky enough, her readers, too. Around us, so many objects abound to write about. Once a poet starts with a smallest, most trivial object, he shall discover that his pen will spill out what is most delicate or most majestic hidden inside him. Since the classics sometimes dealt with lofty subjects with a lofty language, a person with poetry in his soul may incline to emulate that. That is understandable. Poetry does that to a person: it enlarges the soul and gives it wings. Yet, to really soar, a poet needs to take off from the ground. Kiya's gift. I love it!
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#857853 added August 19, 2015 at 11:01pm
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Love and Anger
Prompt: "When love is given, love should be returned, anger gives no life." Hawaiian Proverbs Do you agree?

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I don’t agree with the “love should be returned” part. Love is not a duty. If love is given, it is a gift. That’s that. There are no shoulds to it. You don’t have to return anything back. It is ridiculous to expect someone you love to love you back. True love has no conditions put on it. Obviously, love is not well understood in Hawaii or not understood like the way I understand it, even if I am neither an expert nor a proclaimed success on the subject.

Besides, this type of an expectation is a dangerous concept, as it leads to becoming an obsession and ends up in stalking and bothering the loved one. Would a true lover want to bother or scare the one he or she loves? I think not.

As to “anger gives no life,”---if I understand it correctly from this quite bad translation which doesn’t pay attention to the implied meaning—the feeling of anger is an emotion and emotions cannot be helped to be felt, but how we act on our feelings, especially where anger is concerned, is the key here. Acting rashly and impulsively with anger ruins a person’s health and possibly his life, not to mention that the acts he may commit may put him behind bars or worse.

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