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: How do you feel about this quote by Marilyn Monroe “Boys think girls are like books, If the cover doesn't catch their eye they won't bother to read what's inside.” Do you agree or disagree?
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I like Marilyn Monroe just fine, more as a tragic figure than a beauty, which her beauty is a given, anyhow. I also agree with what she has uttered however with the reservation that has to do with who the boy is and at which age he is viewing the so-called girl-book.
Most young men go for the visuals, agreed. All of us while in our teens and early twenties have experienced this, be it as boys or girls. I attended an all-girls high school where the teenage girls mostly talked about physical attractiveness of certain boys or, in reverse, how to enhance their own beautiful aspects.
Girls usually get over their physical criteria hangups soon enough, but with some boys, not all, the same criteria can stick for a lifetime, probably until after they are bulldozed by a raving beauty.
As far as beauty is concerned, I have to agree with this other quote more, where both sexes are concerned. ““Immodest and attractive is easy. Modest and repulsive is easy too. But modest and attractive is an art form.” -- Douglas Wilson, 5 Paths to the Love of Your Life
In this quote, I replace the word modest with having inner beauty. In fact, I believe either she or he--who goes out of his or her way to make life easier and more beautiful for others--has the true everlasting beauty inside them. As Criss Jami said, “If love is blind, then maybe a blind person that loves has a greater understanding of it.” Life works better for us if we focus to see others with the eyes of the heart, instead of the eyes on our faces.
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