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"If I don't write to empty my mind I go mad" - Lord Byron, "You've got to jump off the cliff all the time and build your wings on the way down.” - Ray Bradbury, “Write hard and clear about what hurts.” - Ernest Hemingway, It isn't easy being green, Master and Servant, Practical Purge, Well it's a dirty job but someone's gotta do it
“If you are a creator, it is child’s play to paint pages of joy, to scribe visions of pure pleasure and happiness, so long as you keep your bliss in your pockets, close to hand and heart. But there is much more to be gained with courage; delve further, step out of the light. Do not shy from that which you harbour within, the abhorrent and hateful, the harrowing and painful which you have locked far, far away, behind blackened, rust-caked doors. It holds a deep well that brims with that which is, and has been. Every anguished iota stored and poured in meticulous detail – rapids in a river of razor blades. Use it. Have it earn a living. Ladle it liberally upon your work when called for. Be careful though – neither live it, nor let it define you – recycle the bastard.”
- The Cloud
Esme's Cloud 
right write
light lite
therefore there is
literature
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Nods.
As a torch.
s.u.t.C
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Exquisitely written, your words are an echo of orthodox Buddhist wisdom, wherein suffering, or unsatisfactoriness, is deemed to be a gateway to liberation, along with impermanence and non-self. Many incline to say that they do not suffer, that they experience only little unsatisfactoriness, yet this is solely because they fail to accept what is there. Buddhist pessimism? No; we simply need to view our lives as they are in actuality, as against how they appear in our conditioned thought-memory. As you so rightly say, we ought not let what is unsatisfactory define us, yet to ignore it is to perpetuate it, even though our ignorance veils it in softly translucent cloths.
Many thanks, H. ❤
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That’s spot on H. Pain is as much a part of us as any other emotion, and doesn’t do well when purposely ignored, then again, to focus upon it with a magnifying glass will burn you to a crisp. To acknowledge it’s presence and allow it to be, then ideally utilize it is a positive way to create methinks. It’s a ‘one fits all’ for everything you’ve ever experienced. As it happens, I have little choice when it comes to the poems and fragments, they appear in such a fashion that to censor them, misery-wise or other, makes for a vast sea of empty pages – I’ve noted this. The transmissions turn off and all that is left is a distant hiss. And we can’t have that, because hissing gets pretty dull after a very short time, and usually leads to ‘boo-ing’ which would be an abomination of the highest degree looks horrified.
Thank you so much for your words.<3
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I particularly like the words of caution, “neither live it, nor let it define you”, and yet indeed we must draw from it to encounter the fullness of our own being. I guess it’s like being honest about what we harbor, all the while knowing what we harbor is not who we are… Well said, Sonmi!
Michael
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Thank you Micheal, very kind of you to say so. We are the sum of as many parts as we choose.
sonmi smiling upon the Cloud
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he will try and do just that
says hi
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waves at him and smiles
sonmi looking very zen upon the Cloud
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I’ve not been shying, I’ve been avoiding the harbor all together. “Thems polluted waters” is what I’d say if asked, but no one has because they hate me for having all of my amazing qualities and not sharing them. It’s what you might call a vicious circle.
The…
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“I’ve not been shying, I’ve been avoiding the harbor all together.” – HAHAHAHAHA.
I don’t blame you one jot.
It isn’t a necessity anyway, you can just go quietly mad instead. Though probably not all that quietly in your case. laughs some more.
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Works for writers, and for life. Well put.
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Thank you JB, I appreciate that smiles.
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