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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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#864297 added October 27, 2015 at 5:15pm
Restrictions: None
Repeated Motifs in My Writing? Yes, of Course!
Prompt: Is there an image, a storyline, or a scene that keeps coming up and persisting in your writing? Do you know why? Do you put it there knowingly or does it show up on its own, unannounced?

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Yes, I have written a ton of things like that. Remember Salvador Dali’s Persistence of Memory painting with the misshapen clocks? My writing is exactly that.

Some of those motifs I know why. They are the distorted versions of somewhat life altering, or rather, impressing and influencing events in my life. Others that keep repeating I don’t know from where they originated. With those, I am totally at a loss. They might be some stories or life experiences of others that I listened to while a child and was affected by them without realizing.

In addition, a few things resurfaced while I was writing for contests and for Slam of a long time ago in WdC since several of those prompts were asking personal questions. Some of my answers to those prompts stayed with me, and they keep popping up like a Jack-in-the-box. Sometimes, I don’t recognize them immediately but a bit later, possibly while doing a quick edit. At other times, I recognize them instantly right after I’ve written the last word.

At this time in my life, I don’t use them knowingly, but I am not surprised either when they show up unannounced. I just roll my eyes and say, “Here we go, again!”

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