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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.
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Prompt: "Imagination is the only weapon we have against reality." Alice In Wonderland "Bewitched is distorted from reality and nothing is as dull as constant reality." Agnes Moorehead. What is your take on this?
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I don’t think reality is dull, neither is imagination, especially when they accompany each other in acceptable doses. Lean heavily on either one and you’ve got troubles.
If I were to be made to choose between reality and imagination, however, I would definitely go with reality. Reality or, in other words, truth forms the basis of everything. If you ignore the facts and turn your head away from reality, you would be a good candidate for an inmate in a mental asylum.
All art--together with the writing arts--gain inspiration from their artist’s reality. Take a writer, any writer. For the sake of analogy, let’s go with Fyodor Dostoevsky. If he weren’t sentenced to exile in a Siberian labor camp for four years instead of being executed for his crime of reading banned books, he would probably not be able to depict the feelings of the exiled in most of his books, specifically in Crime and Punishment. Or take Picasso. If his eyes didn’t see the world in its reality first, would he be able to imagine his art as the distortion of reality?
On the other hand, many an imagination has helped the reality and life on earth through new tools and vehicles. This means imagination can become reality when expressed in a certain, special way because, according to scientists’ findings from the EEG recordings of seeing and imagining, the neural patterns of imagination and reality flow in opposite directions in the brain. I find it curious for these two things that flow opposite each other to work together well if handled with delicacy.
My conclusion, therefore, is both imagination and reality enrich our lives. Without imagination, our lives would be gloomy, and without reality, we would all turn into wild raving maniacs.
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