Search where?

This Portfolio (joycag)

All of Writing.Com

◄ April ► 2019
S	M	T	W	T	F	S
	1	2	3	4	5	6
7	8	9	10	11	12	13
14	15	16	17	18	19	20
21	22	23	24	25	26	27
28	29	30
Archive				RSS

Create New Item

Read & Review

Community

Browse By Type

Browse By Genre

Writing Resources

Monday, May. 6, 2024

11:40am EDT

Members: 965

Guests: 2,641

Total Online: 3,606

Everyday Canvas

by Joy

Rated: 18+ · Book · Experience · #2003843

Second blog -- answers to an ocean of prompts

"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.

Show Recent Comments

10 Most Recent Blog Comments:

~SilverMoon~

a day ago
In response to "Why Red Wouldn't Eat Rabbits"

Nicely done.

1 Like

🌸 pwheeler - love joy peace

a day ago
In response to "Why Red Wouldn't Eat Rabbits"

Lovely!

1 Like

Lyn's a sly fox

May 3, 2024 at 1:08pm
In response to "May 3, 2024"

That's a phenomenal poem, Joy! Impressive job with the challenging words.

1 Like

🌸 pwheeler - love joy peace

May 2, 2024 at 7:47pm
In response to "Nature Walks"

Can you still take short walks? I hope so. Even a little bit of nature is refreshing.

Simply Me

May 2, 2024 at 5:41pm
In response to "Nature Walks"

You can take a hike virtually. Or just watch on UTube. like... 4K Nature Treasures of Hawaii Botanical Garden - Jungle Forest Cinematic Virtual Walk. Your memories will do the rest.

1 Like

🌸 pwheeler - love joy peace

May 1, 2024 at 7:56pm
In response to "Being Kind"

That's beautiful, Joy and Megan.

Joy, I love that you gave that avocado seed a new life! It might just need more fertilizer? Good luck!

1 Like

Princess Megan Rose 22 Years

May 1, 2024 at 12:31pm
In response to "Being Kind"

Being kind to others is so important. There would be no wars if everyone was nicer to each other. A good entry.

1 Like

🌸 pwheeler - love joy peace

Apr 29, 2024 at 3:30pm
In response to "To Smile About"

Your beautiful heart shines through this list of things that make you smile.

I love that acts of kindness to others makes you smile. I forgot to include nature and acts of kindness but they are definitely things that make me smile too.

1 Like

Joy

Apr 29, 2024 at 11:06am
In response to "C'est la Vie!"

intuey GoT Survivor!

Thanks for responding. Yes, I agree. Happy memories do not have the same intensity, but if they were really happy, they could help. I said "really" in the above sentence only because our minds have a way of cutting out and doing away with the bad parts of our memories. As they say, "Good old days"! Were they really that good?
Then, if we can do better by "getting our sorrows out" so be it. Whatever works!
Happy writing!

1 Like

intuey GoT Survivor!

Apr 29, 2024 at 8:04am
In response to "C'est la Vie!"

Very thought-provoking entry, Joy. I think sorrows and negative emotions carry deeper, more intense feelings that enable us to dig down deep and pour them out on paper.

At least that's what I find from my writings that mirror such emotions. After pouring out a writing, or a poem about the pain I'm experiencing from loss or betrayal, or wherever the negative emotion may stem from, I feel a bit lighter. It's like I poured it out on paper and in doing so I was able to lighten my heart and soul a bit.

I know in the past if I had something haunting me, I'd write it down on a piece of paper and burn the paper. In doing so, I felt like I was releasing that negative emotion from carrying it around. I felt that it really did help.

Happier feelings don't carry the intensity of negative ones. (At least in my experience). Also, the need to get them out isn't as strong, because you want to treasure them and hold them close to your heart. You don't ever want them to diminish, so you harbor them to keep them safe from disappearing. Writings of happy memories and times are nice but they don't have the same intensity.

And for me, that's okay. Because I need to get the sorrows out as much as possible. To me, it's therapeutic.

1 Like

April 11, 2019 at 2:57pm

#956355

April and Criticism

Prompt: Write a poem about Spring and April.

------

I liken April to a young carefree girl
with an angelic grace
slight waist
eyes wide open
with sweetness and fragrance
of flowers and spices,
and in her itinerary,
a rippling creek,
vegetation, and rain

for in the stream of time
her silky green outfit
will take on
dazzling summer colors
in wavy red-hot patterns
and a mature scorching style

Such a downgrading gesture
to reinvent oneself!

Prompt: What was your most memorable piece of criticism, good or bad?

------

If the critique will help me or is done by a knowledgeable person, I appreciate it greatly whether it is good or bad, but when the critique becomes a criticism with bad intentions, then I see red.

Case in point: This was many years ago. Right here in Wdc, a member wanted to get back at me for a reason, in which she was in the wrong, and she re-registered as a gray case to give a one star to a horror story I had just written, and she said something like, “Why do you write such a scary story? Can’t you write something soft and sweet?”

It wasn't the one star that got me but her comment. I have no words for such an action.

Like • Comment • View 1 comment

Printed from https://www.writing.com/main/profile/blog/joycag/day/4-11-2019