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The website content reflects on the interplay between love and fear through a 10-day poetry challenge, inviting readers to explore their own emotional paths and the importance of poetry in creative expression.

Abstract

The article titled "To Fear Or To Love Better?" is the fifth entry in a 10-day poetry challenge, contemplating the duality of love and fear as fundamental, interconnected emotions. It suggests that the presence of fear can enhance the experience of love and poses a question to the reader about their choice between living in fear or love. The piece includes a photograph credited to cottonbro from Pexels and encourages further engagement with the author's work through various platforms, including Medium, Substack, Instagram, YouTube, and Twitter. Additionally, the article references another writer, srstowers, who emphasizes the value of poetry as a standalone art form that resonates with both writers and readers, regardless of one's ability to analyze it academically.

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  • The author believes that fear and love are intrinsically linked, suggesting that one cannot fully experience love without also experiencing fear.
  • The article presents a dichotomy, challenging readers to choose between embracing fear or love in their lives.
  • Poetry is championed as a vital form of creative expression that can benefit everyone, not just those who can dissect its meaning in a scholarly manner.
  • The author invites readers to join a communal poetic journey to overcome writer's block and to write more, implying that such challenges can be a source of inspiration and motivation.
  • The inclusion of a previous day's poem and another writer's perspective on poetry indicates the author's view that poetry is a collaborative and shared experience that can enrich one's life.

To Fear Or To Love Better?

Day 5 of a 10-day poetry challenge

Photo by cottonbro from Pexels

Love and fear, the yin-yang of the universe. No fear, no love No love, no fear. Perhaps, to love better is to fear better.

The more fears we have, the more love we get to experience, someday. The question is, which path do you choose? Path of being in fear, or path of being in love?

Thank you for reading. For more of my short-form reads and poetry:

To read day 4’s poem,

Fellow Coffee Times writer srstowers share with us why poetry is a must-read for writers and readers:

“Poems are like paintings or sculptures — they exist as a work of art, independent of what the artist may have meant in making them. I can like a poem because of its images or language or how catchy it is. I don’t need to be able to explicate it in a five-paragraph essay.”

Starting Nov 13, join me on a 10-day poetic journey from KTHT poetry challenge #3 to beat the writer’s block, or simply give yourself “excuses” to write more.

Yours Yan, join me on Substack, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter. Or just get updates to your emails.

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