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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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"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 28, 2015 at 1:21pm
October 28, 2015 at 1:21pm
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Prompt: Your creative imagination can be good for writing novels, poems, short stories but can be your worst enemy when it invents worse case scenarios. Do you agree?

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When worse case scenarios happen in my writing, I celebrate them. Coming up with worse case scenarios and then making the main character get out of them creates suspense which keeps the reader reading. This also helps to deepen the conflict.

Yet, when the same thing happens in real life, that is when I imagine the worst to happen, it is not a comfortable feeling; however, it is a useful one. Without falling into despair or panic, if I can imagine how I would act in such a situation, and my thinking along those lines helps me to handle that situation or a similar one better, should such a thing come to pass. From this point of view, creative imagination can be an ally instead of an enemy.

What hurts anyone is fearing the future and suffering from anxiety over it. Even under worst circumstances, it is the better option to design a solution beforehand or to find a way to survive with the least amount of damage to oneself.


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