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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.
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Prompt “History-writing is a way of getting rid of the past.” Goethe
What is Goethe trying to say here, and what do you think of history and historical fiction?
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What Goethe meant I can’t exactly say, but I think history-writing could help us avoid the crimes of the past and not make the same mistakes people before us made. On the plus side, we can also learn from the good things the earlier civilizations and people did.
I am not too sure we have succeeded in that learning, however. I was a good history student in school, and from what I have read, I think, through the last several decades, we may have come a long way where material things are concerned, but we are still forming groups and warring with each other. It is as if we are suffering from amnesia forced on us by time and lack of learning. Our conditioning may also be affecting us because we may have heard from our teachers and elders that the perspectives of a different age do not apply to our time and circumstances. Yet, most situations do recur often, in however different costumes.
Historical fiction appeals to me a lot. At least one fifth of my book reading has to do with historical fiction. Historical fiction makes history more humanistic and more entertaining. I have been reading especially half-fictional stories that took place during the two World Wars because those stories are about people. Everyone says such human suffering shouldn’t happen ever again, but it is still happening and I resent that we haven’t learned our lessons from the past.
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