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About This Author
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.
 
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Everyday Canvas
"Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself."
CHARLIE CHAPLIN
Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet
confinement of your aloneness
to learn
anything or anyone
that does not bring you alive
is too small for you.
David Whyte
This is my supplementary blog in which I will post entries written for prompts.
January 19, 2018 at 11:43pm January 19, 2018 at 11:43pm
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Prompt: Creative Saturday, have fun with these eight words.
spill // identification // curtain // chin // pool // wash // option // indication
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Poor dear! She spills all over you, and pulsing with pleasure, you unclothe your body and mind. Now, you have no option but to lower your chin and jump into the pool, pushing hard against the curtain of water that rises up on contact.
Her clear blue-green irises stare at you with a predictable indication of desire, tinged with determination. You, the flamboyant funambulist, boogying aquanaut, washed-out comic, float to the surface and turn from broadside to profile to revel in your identification of her applause, which sounds to me like a crack of doom on your ‘single’ status.
Yet, you still think you are the barracuda while her hook has sunk into your wide open mouth.
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January 19, 2018 at 3:42pm January 19, 2018 at 3:42pm
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Prompt: Since Megan raised the question yesterday about the organization in the kitchen, I'm going to take it one step further.
Are your husbands, boyfriends, roommates helpful or a hindrance when it comes to the organization overall? Do you split the rooms, tasks? How do you make it work?
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Hindrance is more like it. No, there’s no job distribution either. I do just about everything or sometimes, or rather more so, do nothing.  Hubby is a great guy but he’s older than me, which I use as his forever pardon. And rather than chewing the cud on the subject, I’ll tell you a story. Use it as an analogy.
Diogenes of Sinope, a.k.a Diogenes the Cynic, lived as a beggar on the streets and made a virtue of extreme poverty. He taught contempt for all human achievements, social values, and institutions. This story is attributed to him as if a legend.
According to ancient people, one day, Alexander the Great came to visit Diogenes. It was a sunny day and Diogenes, having scanty clothing, was warming himself up in the sunlight. Alexander stood up in front of Diogenes and asked him what he desired and how he, Alexander, could be of help to the philosopher. Diogenes replied, "Just don’t block my sunlight. I don’t need any other gift.”
This goes for me, too. No gift, no help, nothing. Moreover, I have been doing things that he used to do that have nothing to do with housekeeping. It is a miracle or a grace of God that I find the time to do anything else. 
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