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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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#923218 added November 3, 2017 at 6:39pm
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Walking Alone
Prompt: Agree or Disagree--
"The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has been before." —Albert Einstein


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Agreed!

Nothing is wrong in following the crowd, but I believe life is an opportunity. Following the crowd usually has no creativity in it and it is not as safe as one might believe. Also, it depends on what kind of a crowd you are following. I mean, you could be following the MAFIA, right?

Doing one’s own thing, call it walking alone if you will, is seeing what could be and asking why can I not do this? Especially for women, the sky is the limit, if only we could make our own eyes sharp enough to see that sky.

Walking alone is an indication of one’s love for life, and it takes imagination and courage. For some women, in the past and in those societies that oppress females, these qualities have been and are discouraged. Walking alone is overcoming this kind of a conditioning, and not looking over one’s shoulder at what others are doing, but moving forward, doing new things, and experimenting with life without self-doubt, regardless of success or failure.

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Dear BC friends, I miss you, but I can't write every day when something else like NaNo is going on. This evening, however, I wanted to give that craze a short rest. I so miss blogging especially when I can't find the time or the mind for it.






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