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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  #1076664 added September 12, 2024 at 10:48am Restrictions: None	 
	Right as Rain 
	Prompt: Right as rain. Write about this term in your Blog entry today. 
 
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"Right as rain" is a hopeful expression that is usually applied to health. It means something or someone is completely ok, well, or healthy again, especially in the case of recovering from an illness or a bad experience. 
 
Charles Dickens's Pickwick Papers uses a different form of this expression: "right as a trivet." It wouldn't surprise me if "right as rain" is the grandchild of that expression since, in  England in those times, Dickens's work had infected common speech.  
 
There is a farewell-to-a-lover song by Adele with the title Right as Rain. Here are its lyrics. 
 
Right as Rain 
Song by Adele 
 
Who wants to be right as rain? 
It's better when something is wrong 
You get excitement in your bones 
And everything you do's a game 
When night comes and you're on your own 
You can say I chose to be alone 
Who wants to be right as rain? 
It's harder when you're on top 
'Cause when hard work don't pay off 
And I'm tired there ain't no room in my bed 
As far as I'm concerned 
So wipe that dirty smile off 
We won't be making up 
I've cried my heart out 
And now I've had enough of love (of love) 
Who wants to be riding high 
When you'll just crumble back on down? 
You give up everything you are 
And even then you don't get far 
They make believe that everything 
Is exactly what it seems 
But at least when you're at your worst 
You know how to feel things 
See when hard work don't pay off 
And I'm tired there ain't no room in my bed 
As far as I'm concerned 
So wipe that dirty smile off 
We won't be making up 
I've cried my heart out 
And now I've had enough of love 
Go ahead and steal my heart 
To make me cry again 
'Cause it will never hurt 
As much as it did then 
We were both right 
And no one had blame 
But now I give up 
On this endless game 
'Cause who wants to be right as rain? 
It's better when something is wrong 
I get excitement in my bones 
Even though everything's a strain 
When night comes and I'm on my own 
You should know I chose to be alone 
Who wants to be right as rain? 
It's harder when you're on top 
'Cause when hard work don't pay off 
And I'm tired there ain't no room in my bed 
As far as I'm concerned 
So wipe that dirty smile off 
We won't be making up 
I've cried my heart out 
And now I've had enough of 
No room in my bed 
As far as I'm concerned 
So wipe that dirty smile off 
We won't be making up 
I've cried my heart out 
And now I've had enough of love, whoa 
Yeah, enough 
 
 
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