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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.
April 24, 2016 at 12:36am April 24, 2016 at 12:36am
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Prompt: If you had the power to wish books out of print, movies out of theatres, or television programming would you ever use it? Why or Why not? What are the risks if that door was opened?
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I would never do that or even want to do that because it would be against our freedom of speech that we hold so dear, as it should be and as it is declared in the first amendment. Not only for the things I want and like but also I must stand up for the stuff I don’t like, as well, because when it comes to the stuff I like and no one defends my right to it, it means not only mine but all our rights as to speech and thought have been snuffed out. What we must always keep in mind is that, in any oppressive regime, the freedom of speech is the first to be obliterated. As Benjamin Franklin said in his writings, “Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.”
All censuring and condemnation of any of the arts usually starts slow and grows bigger and bigger, until the writers, journalists, artists of visual and stage arts can no longer exist as free thinkers.
On the other hand, I would encourage the makers of such programs to give as much information as they can for their products before they sell tickets for those works so their audience does not feel insulted if the product hurts their beliefs or feelings.
For example, I like what we are doing here in WdC by rating the items and enforcing their correct ratings. Even here, there isn’t a further rating after XGC, and there are instances which the item might be totally deleted for the highly dangerous and perverted subject matter that might go over XGC; ]the reason for that is, the site is open to 13+ year-olds, but I don’t believe any WdC member would go for such stuff, anyhow. In addition, this rarely if ever has happened or happens.
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