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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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This is my supplementary blog in which I will post entries written for prompts.
 
 January 5, 2019 at 4:52pm January 5, 2019 at 4:52pm 
		
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Prompt: Write a story or poem that's inspired by absence or emptiness of a person, place or feeling. 
 
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First version, mine. 
 
 
Locking the Door
there’s a way out 
but she chooses to stay in 
to empty out 
disposing possessions 
unwanted, never used 
for she knows  
nothing is 
what she sees
 
she decides 
to lock the door 
her steps at first 
the hardest 
and a journey begins 
to end differently 
than intended 
just maybe 
it’s only a click
 
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New Improved version after    A Warped Witch I Be touched it
 Locking the Door
She decides  
to lock the door 
her steps at first 
the hardest 
as the journey begins 
it ended differently
 
maybe it's only  
a click
 
there's a way 
but she chose to stay 
emptying, disposing 
unwanted possessions 
they were nothing 
like she thought
 
maybe it's only 
a click
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