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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.
September 7, 2016 at 1:09pm September 7, 2016 at 1:09pm
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Prompt: They say you can't go home again. Do you agree or disagree?
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I agree because “home” changes both in its reality and through the ideas that we associate with it.
In some communities, the residential streets may turn into business districts or a busy street may turn into a dump over time. Some people are disappointed when they return home because home isn’t home anymore. In addition, since it is people who make the home a home and people move or pass away, that home is not the same home.
In the more abstract sense, people can’t go back to an earlier time in their lives because they have learned and outgrown that experience already. Even if that experience was bad and one would want to undo it, that isn’t possible either. Also, we learn from all our experiences, good or bad, no matter if we were happy or sad then or how we acted at the time they took place.
When it comes to me, I don’t like going back or looking back. It is the future toward where I am and we all are headed. Going back is only a fantasy.
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Earlier prompts for September 5 and 6
Prompt: Talking about characterization, does each of us have the potential of becoming a monster in the right circumstances? Just how does an ordinary person become a monster? Can you think of a few scenarios?
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It is possible that each person has it in him or her to become a monster or an angel in the right circumstances. This doesn’t mean that we should forgive all monsters or hail anyone with a good deed as if he or she were an angel. Surely, given the right time and conditions, most of us generally have the inclination toward one extreme or the other.
As characters, we are not perfect and we all are in the process of evolving. Remember Ann Rice’s vampire character Lestat? As unreliable a narrator as he is, he has the good and the bad in him. He is flawed and he knows it. The same is true of most of us, the works of nature in the making.
Yet, a person may act badly because of a faulty chromosome or a brain disease. On the other hand, I believe that most monstrous acts by people have their origins in ignorance or being mishandled somehow and in some way, in their past. The anger that results from being mishandled continuously or even once can influence the psyche to make the person to suddenly act up in a terrible manner.
Although we love people to be like Superman, this extreme goodness is not a rational way of being, and neither are the villains we meet in real life are true villains, no matter how badly and consistently they have been acting over any stretch of time.
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Prompt: What do you do to adapt to change as a writer? Did any life changes have demanded or can demand such an adaptation?
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In meaning, adaptation points to our adjustment both to the current state and the evolutionary process of change. For me or for any other writer, adaptation has to do with the real life’s demands.
When I sit down to write and the screen turns blank, I don’t blame the writer’s block. I first check my own self. Am I upset, angry, depressed, or overjoyed and giddy and can’t focus? If so, I start writing about my present state and the writing begins immediately. I may erase what I have written about myself later, once the writing I wanted to do takes shape. This is one form of adaptation. I also have other ways of jump-starting my writing if I can’t think of anything at the time, but these are not new and are known by all writers.
The second form, for me, happened over years and decades. Earlier, I needed a quiet space and no interruptions. At this time in my life, this is not possible, and all my writing has turned into a catch-as-catch-can affair. It was difficult to do at first, but I have grown accustomed to it over time.
Then, when the tools to write with aren’t available, I write inside my head. Just like a painter who sees the shapes and light and shadows at anything she or he looks at, I judge each action, occurrence, or emotion--be it experienced or observed--, for its possibility for a writing piece. This, too, is a form of adaptation.
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