The Poetry of My Life through My Writings and Journeys
Looking back at my old posts, I have created poems and musings inspired by a quote from some of the famous poets and artists.
Nothing to do
so i look for photos i’ve taken
Random everyday sceneries
long captured by my lens
Creating a storyline
for my crazy mind
The pictures and the lines
are all mine
So please don’t steal it
if you want to use it
enjoy it and don’t be cruel
give credit to Joys of Joel.
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“Why are you trying so hard to fit in when you are born to stand out?”
The movie What A Girl Wants was a bit trashy but at least it gave memorable punchlines. Or should i say it’s a Dr. Seuss’ quote that was used by the movie?
Either way, it reminds me of A quote by Oscar Wilde which truly fits this scene just like this beetle car that caught my attention.
Achievements and setbacks, trials and success. joys and sorrows. It makes one unique and just like this beetle that’s stuffed with fancy things we normally ignore until it was collectively decorated. Only then we appreciate the end result. And yes i can say you are only one. Unique and Decorated.
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Your shooting star
lights someone’s dreary sky
No matter how far
he feels the spark
Your starry eyes
ignoring the signs
A whisper of hope
after hearing the lullaby
The dawn has spoken
its golden moment
Broken but not frozen
in a glimpse of a second
You turn around
she found his sound
Together they’re in heaven
Now you’re forsaken.
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Nothing could be so true
what Ernest Hemingway once knew
So i speak and cite this creed
everytime i feel the grief
Even if the world has torn me apart
and fractured my loving heart
I’ll never blame those days i kissed
the monster of my youthful beast.
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No need to escape from all the pain.
Through the fire or through the rain
There’s no way out
to leave in vain
And if you leave
You must go through
accept the view
then say adieu.
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Just sharing this line from the movie “The Butterfly Effect.”
Love is a gamble and not a game. A gamble means taking risks, a game means to cheat. But if love is a game, i’ll challenge you to play it. Tell me the truth and i’ll dare you to prove it.
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Yes, it’s your nature to be fair but it’s also the scorpion’s nature to sting. The world is a huge jungle, if you want to get your lion’s share you should expect the unexpected. Do not expect to be unscathed or unbitten while you hike that trail. Fair expectations and all those complications, a truthful confirmation that it won’t be easy to fulfill your journey but it will be all worth it.
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Countless times i’ve been a fool, shameless me. And the kind of fool that i am, one would think i’m rushing in to avoid the traffic jam , come April Fools Day.
Yes, we learned from the heroes but sometimes the bad guys also have something worthwhile to say and we learned so much lessons from the antagonists who gave us our bad days. And nothing could be more true than this quote from the green goblin in the movie spiderman.
Staring at the blank moving wall, now called wallpaper, the memories keep flashing like a movie scene. I’m still in a state of confusion as to what usually follows after finishing the sentence not with a period but with a colon that never belong to a conjunction of a subliminal past and paradoxical present.
i truly cannot understand why a tinge of justification was needed for that fleeting moment of indecision or bad judgment. Nope, it is not to be judged, i know in due time it is only to be understood.
The truth in not knowing the value of the moment until it became a memory. That obsequious feeling of driving a wheel , disregarding the traffic rules inspite of knowing that dangers will be waiting for breaking the stone that rocks the cradle.
The cradle that was all taken care of from infancy to puberty. The adolescence of the mind brainwashing humans that ignorance is a bliss. Until adulthood teaches you that it’s only a bliss until you take the risk.
The paradox of following your bliss believing that you can strive for anything. Anything is possible, even screaming sky is the limit. You can have anything but not everything. An oxymoron parable that sounds better than the aesop’s fable.
The fable that shows human frailties using the art of narrating the pros and cons of an action with its lessons. Realization of the long forgone wishes. Pushing boundaries and eventually stepping over them. The pursuit to fill your bucket list with the unending whispers that the story is not over yet but too late to edit the page.
Yes, the book was already printed, but the story is not over yet.
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The worst prison is a closed heart.
When you are in a glass case of emotions
and everything is bottled up,
why wait for someone to unscrew the cap?
Let it all out and speak up.
Never take someone’s feelings for granted
you just don’t know how much courage
it took them to show it.
Never run away from your feelings
because someday
you will still face it
Time is not an enemy
but it is neither a friend
if you keep running.
Roll the bottle
shake it up
break it if you have to.
The shattered pieces may hurt you.
The broken splinters may scar you
but then who am i to teach you?
I’m just as coward as you.
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