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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. Kiya's gift. I love it!
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#1095341 added August 15, 2025 at 11:25am
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Elegy to Life
Prompt:
Have fun with these 10 words in your entry: tooth, crown, tumor, leak, clear, survival, reflection, blank and Kermes

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Elegy to Life

shadow and fire carved *survival
now that the *tooth of time
is wearing a false *crown

like distant dreams in *Kermes red
as within their mask, a *tumor coils
while I measure *leak and loss

then, in *reflection, I judge my fate
for the hourglass glares *clear,
and a *blank chronicle writes itself




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