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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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"Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself."
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confinement of your aloneness
to learn
anything or anyone
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This is my supplementary blog in which I will post entries written for prompts.
October 28, 2014 at 12:42pm October 28, 2014 at 12:42pm
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Prompt: If your life flashed before your eyes, what are 5 moments you know would be included? Bonus points to the monthly blogging if you tie this in with Halloween.
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There are many moments that will flash before my eyes, if such a thing could happen. But if I have choose any one special memory, it will be this: One evening on top of a hill overlooking the city with the full-moon and someone very dear to me. Those hours shine because we were together that night, heart and soul and poetry and literature. As Gaston Bachelard said, “Love is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better, the more poetically it is dreamed.”
The second moment will be the day I went out to choose rings with my fiancé, now my husband. Third one, the day I was married. Fourth and fifth moments are the births of my children.
Funny thing is, when the five-moments question came up, these were the first five that suddenly rushed forth. After those, I remember the Halloween parties I used to give in my home for my sons and the neighborhood children. I suspect that we parents had more fun than the kids in those years.
Talking about Halloween, I bought the Halloween candy and treats yesterday, and already opened two of the big bags --for me --, but then, who can resist KitKats and the like? Come Friday, I just hope, when the little ones in masks and costumes ring the doorbell, I’ll have enough candy left.
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