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 #932821 added April 15, 2018 at 3:12pm Restrictions: None
Progress
Prompt: What is your personal definition of progress?
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Progress, to me, is personal growth, and it has nothing to do with success, fame, monetary wealth, or others’ opinions. If we learn or discover something each day, possibly help someone in some way, and anything we put out--be it in words, conversation, music or visual arts, and other actions—springs from the feeling of love and other positive feelings, we grow.
This growth is not fancy. It doesn’t happen in the future. It has to happen immediately, each day, putting us in touch with that warm, hidden place inside ourselves. Then, it adds up over time, becomes progress on a wider scale, and inspires others. If each one of us concentrated on his or her own progress, the entire humankind would show progress, too.
I think, therefore, progress begins in the home, in the home of the body and mind of each person, to spread and become worldwide.
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