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: “A gull on an invisible wire attached through space dragged. You carry the symbol of your frustration into eternity.”
William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
If you were to design a symbol for your greatest frustration, what would it feel or look like?
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Most of my frustrations happen when I get impatient with my own behavior or at my failure of action for something that had to be done, which I didn’t do. At that point, I feel like I have lightning flashing through my very own teeth zapping all the lights around to leave me alone and helpless in the dark. When this happens, my first reaction is to run away from it all, but now the rage at my flight behavior has turned inward, amplifying my frustration.
Frustration occurs when I am unable to reach my goals, usually as the result of my ambitions exceeding my abilities or sometimes as the result of external barriers in my way, such as getting stuck in a traffic jam while trying to get to an important meeting.
Frustration brings with it irritation and anger, but if I am careful, I may succeed to take it as a sign to adjust and redirect my goals. In its roundabout way, frustration can help me to cope better with life by forcing me to adjust my behavior and the way I react to external obstacles.
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