About This Author
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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"Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself."
CHARLIE CHAPLIN
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Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet
confinement of your aloneness
to learn
anything or anyone
that does not bring you alive
is too small for you.
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This is my supplementary blog in which I will post entries written for prompts.
October 21, 2015 at 10:46pm October 21, 2015 at 10:46pm
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Prompt: The FBI show up at your door. Why are they there?
Easy and I don’t blame those guys one iota, either. On an alert by Google Chrome, they have checked my browsing history and found these search questions:
Arsenic
Nightshade family
the deadliest poisons that don’t leave a trace
how to hold a gun
how to fire a gun
the different kinds of firearms
dirks, scimitars, and other sharp blades
lonely women moving to Syria
erasing blood stains
why people kill
Stoning
Book Gorilla
Revolutionary Petunias
Arms race and phallic symbols
18th-century hanging practices
murdered kings in history
How to become a member of the mob
Cryogenics
Alien influence
Punishments for adultery
I tell them I am a writer and I have a right to do all kinds of research. They tell me they don’t know of any books by me and they ask if I've sold any.
I tell them, I am not a vendor; I am only a writer.
They say nobody just writes. They can’t believe that I just write.
I tell them to check my portfolio in Writing.com.
They glance through my port, and then, they look at me and say: “Idiot, loser!”
Obvious, isn’t it? From those two words, I immediately understand that they were sent by a presidential candidate.
I say: “You are not the real FBI agents. You are only acting the part."
They say: “And you are not a real writer. You are only acting the part.”
Losers!
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Note: This is fiction. This is only fiction. Don't anyone get any misplaced ideas! 
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October 21, 2015 at 7:32pm October 21, 2015 at 7:32pm
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Prompt: My Dad told me that he helped Daniel Boone move in and rode with Jesse James! Did your parents ever tell you tall tales like this?
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My childhood is so far away that I don’t recall any tall tales. My mother used to make up stories and fairy tales on the spur of the moment, only if we had a few children visiting and they were making too much noise. She rarely told me a story when I was alone; earlier, however, before I learned to read, she read to me, but I was already reading myself when I turned four, so she didn’t bother after that. To the best of my memory, tall tales were out of the circulation in our home; it could be that they were probably considered as bad as lies. The first I heard about them, such as Paul Bunyan tales was at school.
A tall tale has farfetched elements, related as if they were facts. Some are exaggerations of actual events. Some take their plots from historical events and people.
I guess it is all right to tell tall tales for the fun of it, but tall tales become counterproductive when the tall-tale teller believes them himself, such as a pretty young girl strongly believing that every male in the universe will fall for her.
As a tall-tale teller, I can remember one guy from another country while I, my husband, and our sons were traveling overseas. This guy told us he’d be the next prime minister of the said country as all wheels were in motion, and it was a done deal. So much so that our sons referred to him as the prime minister. From what we heard and read later on in the papers, he didn’t even make it to the preliminaries. But then, it is the nature of the beast. Just listen or watch the political debates going on with both parties. Tall tales abound. 
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