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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.
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"Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself."
CHARLIE CHAPLIN
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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.
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This is my supplementary blog in which I will post entries written for prompts.
January 6, 2016 at 10:38pm January 6, 2016 at 10:38pm
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Prompt: Have you ever kept a New Year’s Resolution that you made?
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As a general rule, I don’t make resolutions on New Year’s Eve or at any other time. If I promise myself to do something, I’ll do my best to do it. I think, at times, people confuse wanting to do something with making resolutions. Yes, I want to do a lot of things, but I don’t make resolutions for those or even promise to do those only to myself. Yet, when I want to do something, I can focus on it and usually bring it to completion, but I don’t beat myself up while doing it or afterwards.
Resolutions are attempts for reinventing selves. If I wanted to reinvent myself, I’d have to go through extensive psychiatric rehabilitation therapy. Then maybe such resolutions would work.
Resolutions need sharpened attention and focus. They also bind a person to a time period. It is true that a time frame helps to get things done, but there are other aspects in a resolution other than focus and timing.
When you look closely to it, in a resolution, there is a cause and effect factor. What people have or did or didn’t do in the past, now has to be undone, done, or redone. If a person had the guts in the first place, the cause part of the equation wouldn’t have happened, would it? How do you undo or redo without some pain what is so stuck into your life? To see yourself lose again?
Not for me. I am not a glutton for punishment.
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Here's something on the subject for a chuckle or two.
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