When were you last suprised by joy?

Posted on Jul 22nd, 2008 by

This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for July 22, 2008:

Well Joy Billingsgate who lives down our street actually got herself a job...and, I'll tell ya, I had to take a magnet to me pacemaker I wuz so shocked.

There's a poem by, I think, Octavio Paz about the last tear of sorrow being the one of joy.....

And I'm thinking, now, of what the difference is between joy and happiness...so I'm looking forward to scanning all your replies to this question tonight.

Enjoy your day.

Jon x

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about 5 hours later

Nicole said

i couldn't find that poem but his poems are so vibrant and passionate…

Summit and Gravity

There's a motionless tree
And another one coming forward
                                                         A river of trees
Hits my chest
                        The green surge
Is good fortune
You are dressed in red
                                      You are
The seal of the scorched year
The carnal firebrand
                                   The star fruit
In you like sun
                           The hour rests
Above an abyss of clarities
The height is clouded by birds
Their beaks construct the night
Their wings carry the day
Planted in the crest of light
Between firmness and vertigo
                 You are
         Transparent balance

(»Cima y gravedad«)

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about 15 hours later

Shameslaya said

Lovely poem, Nicole…thanx for this..had not heard or read that one before…..Jon x

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