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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“Beauty is the purest feeling of the soul. Beauty arises when soul is satisfied.” ― Amit Ray
What is your take on this statement? Do you agree or disagree that our souls need satisfaction for us to be the best we can be?
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I certainly agree. Walt Whitman said, ““Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.” To me, this is where the arts come in. I think soul satisfies more easily with beautiful literature, music, and visual or stage arts. It can also be satisfied with work well done, whatever that work can be. It might be making life easier for others or it might be helping out a broken person. All these things, plus good thoughts, words, and actions beautify the human being and let the soul feel that beauty.
This beauty in the soul is the opposite of the beauty inferred in the saying, “Beauty is only skin deep.” This “skin-deep” beauty is the outer beauty which means the beauty of the body and the face or maybe the worldly goods, and it has nothing to do with the beauty of the soul. Outer beauty may attract at first sight, but the inner beauty, once recognized, captivates.
Too many live in a deeply divided state against themselves, since they have paid homage to the outer beauty alone, ignoring their positive human qualities that need to be developed, ignoring the works for the emergence of the soul's beauty. This may leave them broken or unsatisfied because the soul is where we find our refuge, our quiet place where we find encouragement to go on if only because we are here on earth to enjoy the experience of creativity and to contribute to humanity’s evolution.
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