"What is joy?"

[Nietzche]

I posted this to show ya'll the softer side of Nietzche . I have a tendency to tire of the ridiculously dense blather I normally post in here. So heres the background: I good friend of mine from school sent me an email yesterday asking me the title's question . . . I pondered this for quite awhile drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes at Winsted's and just when I was about to give up all this stuff appeared on several stained napkins . . .
"What is joy?"
Unhiemliche
-This word rest upon my paper
with a proud obtrusity that's really quite obscene
to pin you down and see your frown
would only create a scene
-Can I with honesty
disregard this anomaly
and submit to your impenetrable gleam?
-Or do I press on
and attempt to capture
this unseemly emotion
that fills me with rapture . . .
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Joy -
Why do you remind me of vaporous steams
That cannot be captured and barely be seen?
Joy -
You creep up behind me
Without making a sound
Joy -
In private analogies
There you are found
Joy -
the crescent moon shadows
your purity and truth
Joy -
At Winsted's I encountered you
While sitting at this booth
Joy -
I abore you
You're just far to much
Joy -
I adore you
For persisting untainted
Through my weak words and such
Joy -
I'll admit you
have baffled me dumb
Joy -
By some sting-ray
I've surely been stung
Joy -
I have seen you
And you're really quite sexy
Joy -
Thank you for asking
This great question Becky!
Joy -
I'll gladly applaud you
For showing me glee
(and transforming my writing
into something silly
[Pause]
Joy -
I apologize for the interruption
But I had to go pee . . .
This often occurs
When I drink too much coffee
Joy -
These lightening fast moments
Have been quite a blast!
Joy -
But now I must leave
Because I have class
Joy -
I know you'll be with me
Time and again
But I am still so excited
For our next meeting to begin!
[ 19 April 2002: Message edited by: Nietzche ]
Blegh! I really laid it on thick in this poem . . . :D
[ 19 April 2002: Message edited by: Nietzche ]

 

[harraser]

well you made me smile, who cares what joy is as long as it feels good, and this poem made me feel good.

 

[E-girl]

Joy -
Why do you remind me of vaporous steams
That cannot be captured and barely be seen?
beautiful sweetie! i like this side of you!

 

[Frosty da snowman]

sweet. :D

 

[lilnellierox]

the simple joys are simply there
they simply come then disappear
and with it...
another cup of coffee, please.
a lighter for my cigarette.
i simply walk
i simply fly
i'm just too simple to know the answer to the why.

 

[Nietzche]

The only decent answer to the question why
Is to simply live and simply try
To find your answer in a walk
And search for meaning from a talk
To live for beauty and not for gain
And never to see the world as plain
Or find your self inhabiting a realm of the same,
For if the moment is no longer new
There is no chance joy’s rays will come shining through.