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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.
August 19, 2015 at 11:01pm August 19, 2015 at 11:01pm
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Prompt: "When love is given, love should be returned, anger gives no life." Hawaiian Proverbs Do you agree?
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I don’t agree with the “love should be returned” part. Love is not a duty. If love is given, it is a gift. That’s that. There are no shoulds to it. You don’t have to return anything back. It is ridiculous to expect someone you love to love you back. True love has no conditions put on it. Obviously, love is not well understood in Hawaii or not understood like the way I understand it, even if I am neither an expert nor a proclaimed success on the subject.
Besides, this type of an expectation is a dangerous concept, as it leads to becoming an obsession and ends up in stalking and bothering the loved one. Would a true lover want to bother or scare the one he or she loves? I think not.
As to “anger gives no life,”---if I understand it correctly from this quite bad translation which doesn’t pay attention to the implied meaning—the feeling of anger is an emotion and emotions cannot be helped to be felt, but how we act on our feelings, especially where anger is concerned, is the key here. Acting rashly and impulsively with anger ruins a person’s health and possibly his life, not to mention that the acts he may commit may put him behind bars or worse.
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August 19, 2015 at 12:37pm August 19, 2015 at 12:37pm
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Prompt: To a dog, you're family. To a cat, you're staff. {I have a kitty I love dearly!} Do you agree?
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I had both dogs and cats. To all of them I was family. If anything, cats considered me more of a family, but to the dogs, everyone was family, once they got warmed up to the people. This makes me think that dogs are promiscuous while cats are faithful. The only cat that doesn’t consider the people in the house as family is probably a Siamese, but not all the time either. A Siamese usually gets attached to one person the most; the others, he only tolerates. I know this from my son's Siamese who is now in cat heaven.
Dogs also need more attention time than cats. If they don’t get it, they’ll make sure, one way or another, that you play with them. A cat, on the other hand, if you don’t play with him, is happy to be snoozing near you or on your lap.
I guess this might relate to the way dogs and cats drink water. A dog uses his entire tongue to lap the drink while a cat uses only the tip of his tongue.
Some trainers claim that dogs are trained more quickly than cats. My experience negates that. If you have a cat who really loves you, he’ll do exactly what you want him to do, while a dog will act like he didn’t hear you. My favorite dog was a New Foundland mix, and as nice as he was, he had a mind of his own, whereas my cats were more adaptable to new conditions.
One thing I like about dogs is that they don’t climb on top of things in the house. They are floor bound, except maybe they’d sit on the sofa or the armchairs. The cats, on the contrary, they are all over the place, knocking things off high places; although, I once had a tabby who learned to stay on the ground level or, at most, on my lap.
Having said all this, do I prefer cats to dogs or vice versa? No way! Each species has its pluses and minuses, and when all is said and done, they both are the best companions one can ever get.
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