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:" If you love something, it will work. That's the only real rule." Bunny Williams
Do you agree with this? Write what you want about this.
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True and pure love means perfection, but since no human being can be perfect, true and pure love may not be possible for imperfect people, at all. I am, however, going to answer this prompt with the hope of such a love as being remotely possible.
The trouble with love is that people confuse it with attachment, as they do in most romance novels.
Attachment isn’t love. Loyalty isn’t love. Sex isn’t love.
The presence of attachment, loyalty, and sex means a good relationship, but love is something else.
Love in itself is caring, compassionate, and emphatic. It sees no otherness because it knows of the interconnectedness of all creation; yet, it still respects the integrity and authority of each being.
Love is inherently free. It can’t be traded, cajoled, bought, or sold, as it is not a marketable substance or commodity, for it exists in mystery for most, and it is vulnerable since it is given freely, and it is only given. It can't be taken. Love just is. It exists within itself, and its action is one-way, only.
Love is an action, a performance, or a feeling that is freely given without even thinking of a return. If you think of a return, you might say it “worked,” but love doesn’t “work” in anyone’s favor as it does not demand a return. It just doesn’t have that concept because it doesn’t need to.
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