For those of you who are new to my blog page, my name is Muaad Sucule and I became a poet in my early twenties. This path eventually led me to find a lasting source of joy in my life. This is why I identify myself as a poet of joy. This joy is not something available only to people who write poetry.

It is available to everyone and my poetry is about sharing these insights with the whole world. Joy, in our world, is in three steps:

Initial difficulty > Mystical insight > Joyous flow

This was the process that I went through and when I look at others around me who are also happy, they have also been through a similar experience.

My journey didn’t start so well but like the soothsayer from Kung Fu Panda said:  “Your story may not have such a happy beginning, but that does not make you who you are, it is the rest of it—who you choose to be,” is from the movie Kung Fu Panda 2. My story started with much difficulty. I was confused and I suffered from many difficult emotions.

At the same time, things were not going so well for me in my personal life and the world around. Eventually, you will give up and when you give up you realise that your ego (I.E. your image of yourself) couldn’t help you out of this situation and it couldn’t help you because it doesn’t exist.

You might be wondering, why is this a good thing? It’s because your image of yourself leads you to a type of psychological hell. It leads you to unnecessary conflict, internal frustration, close mindedness and causes you to make decisions that get rid of your peace.

Once this is out of the way, you begin to flow with the world around you. You begin to become more open minded, laugh more, have less internal frustration and the only conflicts in your life will be ones that are not caused by yourself.

You will become engaged with the world as you will see the world and understand that its a wave that you’re a part of and not a conflict that you’re struggling against. Then you will ride that wave into the future for the rest of your life.

This doesn’t mean you won’t have difficult or painful moments in your life but it does mean that you will always have the comfort of knowing that whatever pain you’re enduring – it will remind you of your real essence.

We can live lives that are joyful, meaningful, honest and bright. It is possible and that is what my poetry is all about.

A poem I always recite (written by me) is the following:

I am a flute,

Played by time,

My actions were never just my own,

Me and you are walking stories,

We are walking songs.

Enter Jestora

Jestora represents a multitude of things. It is an identity (persona and mask mean the same thing in Latin) that I created and one that represents both an ideal and a space. There is a deep reason why I adopted it as my pen and artistic name. Check out my upcoming blog about this identity of mine.

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