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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Babies
Prompt: Babies
“Dogs have owners, cats have staff, and babies have room service.”
Nanette L Avery
What is your take on this quote as to what makes babies so lovable?
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Well, to begin with, babies are cute. With big eyes, round cheeks, small noses, tiny chins, they awaken our protectiveness and tenderness. This may be because they are also totally helpless, totally sincere, and totally eager to learn about our world they have been brought into.
Also, a baby is a beginning, a potential with future. If we didn't care for them, babies wouldn't survive. They are clueless about their environment and even their own needs. And they have no hidden motives. Their expressions are honest. They cry for an immediate need. They laugh out of pure, whole-hearted joy.
In my case, holding my babies, feeling their soft skin, hearing their breathing, their smiles, smelling their scent were the most rewarding experiences in my life. Even today, with my sons in their fifties, for a split second when I look at them, I still feel those rewarding experiences and think how wonderful it is that my babies, once so small and helpless, could turn into such grown, thoughtful, and wonderful human beings.
