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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.
February 4, 2016 at 11:16am February 4, 2016 at 11:16am
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Prompt: Your Blog is going to be recorded into an audible book. Who would you choose to narrate it? Family member, celebrity, friend or who?
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My blog an audible book? Wow! Who’d know!
Now, since I barely spend, give or take, fifteen minutes on each entry, I’d need a voice or maybe voices that will cover up its holes, don’t I?
Thinking seriously and rather selfishly on the matter, I opt for the English accent; thus, I’d like my blog read by the actors from the UK. As their accent is so sensual and mesmerizing, no one will focus on the content. Boy, I should have been a producer. I'd offer any crap as if a feast. But never mind my wandering mind.
Coming back to the issue at hand, rather than pick one actor, I think I’d prefer a whole slew of them. Sir Anthony Hopkins comes to mind, immediately, for the heated entries, but for the snarkier ones, I definitely want Maggie Smith; to read those down-the-middle blah ones Judy Dench, for her sweet way of saying anything and making it come alive; definitely Helen Mirren for the thoughtful ones about women, for what little thoughtfulness I might have mustered, and when those actors take a break, I have some others in mind as well, such as Ian Mc Kellen, Michael Caine, Liam Neeson, Kate Winslet, Julie Andrews, Emma Thompson, Ben Kingsley…and others.
The only two non-negotiable ones are Anthony Hopkins and Maggie Smith. I mean who can resist Countess Grantham’s sideway stares as she says only a phrase or a simple everyday word, like “Thank you!” One can read so many meanings into that “Thank You!” and the same goes for Anthony Hopkins. After the Silence of the Lambs, even the slightest mention of Chianti is enough to make me feel tipsy. If my blog is to become an audible book, therefore, I shall not grant permission if these two are not employed in its reading group.
There, you have it!
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