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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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	 Green Peas at Stake  #581592 added April 25, 2008 at 11:09pm Restrictions: None	 
	Watching the Current (Dew Drop 25) 
	Watching the Current 
 
The riverbank has swollen  
to drown the wayward vine,  
creeping into its territory,  
as the end of spring  
renovates the skin of the earth. 
A brown scaly branch 
bounces downstream to meet 
its insignificant decay, 
taking with it a memory 
of the mother tree, and I,  
with a book on my lap,  
watch the water pour  
over the boulders, savoring  
the flow without an attitude  
or a yearning. If there could be  
a moment in life in which  
I could stay forever, 
this would be it.   
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