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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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#1108353 added February 14, 2026 at 3:28pm
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February Fourteen
Happy Valentine's Day.
Prompt: Write your entry using the words: red, candy, cupid, flowers and Hallmark.


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February Fourteenth, Alone

This morning opened quietly
no knock at my door, nor his laughter
drifting to me like the light...
no more...except the calendar was
whispering in all shades of *red,
inside my shadowy room.

I recall him bringing towers of *candy
stacked like promises, with hearts
wrapped in shiny foil, as if
he wanted to seal his sweetness
after he was gone and his laughter, too,
warmer than our fireplace.

Yet, I smile and think *Cupid must be
busy today, as my neighbor has received *flowers,
roses mostly, and I saw this while watering
the Cordylines, plants for good luck,
in the front yard, which he had put in
with *Hallmark declarations.

So, in a while, I'll unwrap a single piece
of candy, and taste its sweetness slowly
and I'll watch my own rose bush in
the back of the house, how its buds can
open, even when alone, petal by petal,
toward the light.


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