Flash of Joy – v6

Flash of joy, moment,
inspiration, epiphany
a sudden awareness
On the page before me
As I write,
 
Seeing the words appear
out of the air, the gossamer,
Knowing they are right,
Clear, concise
 
An Embodiment,
captured quickly
only momentarily,
Of mind’s eye
and fleeting thought…
 
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Edited April 4, 2024
Flash of Joy – v6
 
edited March 21, 2015
Flash of Joy – v5
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/03/flash-of-joy-v5.html
(editing version 3)
edited January 14, 2015
Flash of Joy – v4
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/01/flash-of-joy-v4.html
(editing version 2)
edited January 14, 2015
Flash of Joy – v3
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/01/flash-of-joy-v3.html
(editing original)
edited May 24, 2012
Flash of Joy – v2
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/05/flash-of-joy-v2.html
February 2, 2004 11:44
Flash of Joy
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/02/flash-of-joy.html
– Written in reaction to the response to the poem “Into Being”
by Roberta Woods –
“Love it!  You've captured the essence of writing not as a discipline but as joy.  And it is because it is pure joy (the agony comes later during revision) it is not a discipline in the sense of having rigid edges.  All doing from joy is a gift to the doer as well as the recipient whether cooking, writing, gardening or any other activity.  My joy activities are writing and carpentry.  All the rest require me to have discipline to get them done. –Roberta”
&
January 31, 2004 19:28-19:36
Into Being
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/02/into-being.html
– About the process of writing as merely writing down the words, suggested by Roberta Woods earlier in the day. I see her point, based on the way my writing often comes quickly. Even when I edit it as I write, it is more to get it right/write. We had been talking about “one-book wonders” and had segwayed into a discussion of how she writes daily and how, when she starts writing a story, it often is prolific.

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