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: Do you believe in reincarnation? If you could come back to Earth after you're done living this current life- but could only come back as an inanimate object- what would you choose, and why?
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I don’t know for certain if reincarnation is possible. It might be if the earth life is some kind of a school or a lab. There is so much to learn, and one lifetime is not enough for it. There isn’t even enough time for me to read all the books I have hoarded thus far. At this going pace, I’ll need more than ten long lifetimes. 
As to the second question, if I can only come back as an inanimate object, I would want to be a writing implement of some sort, like a pen, pencil, tablet, or whatever else that needs to be invented.
As they say, the pen is mightier than a sword. I can bet it is even mightier than the most powerful bomb invented so far. A bomb destroys but its effects are gone in time, maybe a long time, but they are gone eventually. The writing implements’ effects can stay longer. Sophocles’ plays are still being sold. The Vedas of 1700 BC are still on sale in several book forms in Amazon. Even the stone tablets of long-gone eras have managed to survive.
So, can you blame me for wanting to stick around?
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