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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"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.
David Whyte
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This is my supplementary blog in which I will post entries written for prompts.
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Prompt: Do you believe the adage that bad news sells better than good news? Do you find yourself getting more response to negative posts than positive ones?
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That “bad news sells better than good news” adage is something Winston Churchill believed about his nation, when he said, ““The British nation is unique in this respect: they are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.”
I don’t think, however, Churchill’s words apply to me, exactly. Good or bad, I like to hear the news that tells the truth, not the kind we have been getting lately by partisans who pull the news to their advantage and those unethical journalists who exert a titillating edge to any kind of a news.
As to my posts, I don’t know, since I haven’t kept a response log. All I care about is that I’ll keep on writing what feels real to me.
No matter what I think, in some instances, it might be a fact that negative anything makes more waves than all the positives that go unheeded. In my opinion, bad news may have longer legs, but good news has heart. Better yet, truthful news is a whole entity, and as a plus, it is a moral, ethical being.
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