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My name is Joy, and I love to write.
Why poetry, here? Because poetry uplifts its writer, and if she is lucky enough, her readers, too. Around us, so many objects abound to write about. Once a poet starts with a smallest, most trivial object, he shall discover that his pen will spill out what is most delicate or most majestic hidden inside him. Since the classics sometimes dealt with lofty subjects with a lofty language, a person with poetry in his soul may incline to emulate that. That is understandable. Poetry does that to a person: it enlarges the soul and gives it wings. Yet, to really soar, a poet needs to take off from the ground.
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Daily Cascade #1109463 added February 28, 2026 at 2:22pm Restrictions: None
Only Courage
Prompt:
Have fun with these four cliche phrases and these four words--- I smell a rat, a lone wolf, a bite at the cherry, a cut below, essential, notion, passion and knock!
Only Courage
“I smell a rat,” I said at dawn,
when the sky became
a pale-blue *notion of
what it meant to begin again.
In the hallway of my *essential days,
where doubt would *knock
I stood as “a lone wolf”
by habit,
but not by heart.
Perhaps, I feared this chance
was only “a bite at the cherry,”
one brief sweetness...then,
the stem went bare
and I called myself “a cut below,”
measuring my worth
against louder voices,
brighter rooms,
fancy people,
but you had seen my *passion
and how it lifts the ordinary
into something fierce
and shining.
There is no rat here tonight,
only courage,
and the steady rhythm
of my knuckles that *knock
and knock again
until your door opens
to my light.
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