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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: Who were your favorite fictional literature characters when you were a teenager?
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Jo or Josephine March (of Little Women) I absolutely adored her, at the time, possibly because she had a mind of her own. She was a rebel of the gentlest kind and she loved to read and scribble. I thought of her as my alter ego.
Prince Mishkin (of Idiot by Dostoyevski) He amazed me, still does. I couldn’t believe anyone could be so gentle, so understanding, and so full of love, to the point of gullibility, but he wasn't gullible either. No wonder, in my later years, a lit prof thought of him as being a Christ symbol.
Jane Eyre Jane was an unfortunate girl by birth, but she, too, was a strong female character who had to fend for herself, but she did it without hurting anyone and on her own terms.
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Prompt: What does meditation mean to you and how do you meditate?
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About 35 years ago, I seriously studied meditation. Then, it became second nature. As the result of it, I am a much calmer person.
I rarely meditate now, at least not consciously. The good thing about meditation is it becomes second nature and you find yourself meditating on a specific thing or idea, as well as what you trained for.
Prompt: “Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you,” says Carlos Ruiz Zafón, in The Shadow of the Wind
What do you think he means? Don’t we see in a book what its writer has written?
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I am not sure what Zafón claims is true for everyone. I certainly want to find out what the author is trying to say and why and on which thing inside of him he is basing it.
On the other hand, it is a fact that I like a book better if those things, ideas, and/or the writing style of the author correspond to my sensitivities. If this same feeling wouldn’t apply to every reader, then, we would have only one genre, one style, and more or less the similar storylines in books.
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