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: What are the best last words ever? Like for instance Rhett Butler's priceless last words to Scarlett O'Hara. "Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn!" Share with us the ones that left a lingering impression with you.
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I don't know and can't judge what the best last words ever are, but here are a few that have impressed me.
Let’s begin with good old Leonardo da Vinci. “I have offended God and mankind because my work did not reach the quality it should have.” Modesty? Wow! But then, don’t we all wish to have done a lot more?
The same sentiment is reflected by Cecil John Rhodes, the British businessman in South Africa: "So little done, so much to do."
Groucho Marx: “This is no way to live!” He had to be funny even at last breath. No way anyone can top his good sense of humor.
Emily Dickinson: “I must go in, for the fog is rising.” I keep wondering what she was experiencing. Was it visual or was it again her way of wording everything?
Then another one I wonder about what it was he was experiencing is Steve Jobs. According to his sister, he exclaimed: "Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow."
I hope I get to say the same thing: "Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow." I surmise, however, that I’ll say: “Writing.com…sorry to leave you!”
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