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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.
 
 November 13, 2023 at 10:46am November 13, 2023 at 10:46am 
		
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Prompt: Change 
“And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves…”- Virginia Woolf 
How good are you in dealing with change? What would be the steps to take in dealing with change? 
Or write a poem or a story about a "change". 
 
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I am not much good when it comes to change, and that's why I stick to the old as long as I can and to those things I can't stand being changed. Yet, there is life, action, and renewal in change, and as the idea about this earth goes, if there is one thing here that we can be sure of is change.  
 
I don't know if anyone has the inkling or the will to plan ahead for change. If anyone did, their lives would be full of planning instead of living. Change, however, is inevitable and comes mostly unexpectedly and different from our planning for it.  
 
Still, just in case, those who know insist that change can be less stressful when we have a contingency plan in place. With what we consider a negative change, we may have to look at the bright side of things that show up with a change and take time to reflect before diving into any action. Creating some normalcy and comfort for ourselves in the process and counting our blessings for what we have, no matter how small, can be of great help to find some semblance of sanity during and after any change.  
 
So here goes something... 
 
A symphony of change, a fleeting chance 
in the quiet woods where time does dance 
to my wave of farewell, a gentle release 
of nature's offering moments of peace 
 
the palette of hues a vibrant array 
nature's masterpiece in grand display 
autumn whispers secrets to trees 
as leaves are carried by the breeze 
 
those leaves, once firm in summer's hold 
now flutter down in crimson bold 
emerald greens give way to gold 
story of my life, furtively told 
 
with an air crisp, chill in the wind, 
a shift begins, a cycle thinned 
in seasons of change, majestic shows, 
trees shed clothes as daring heroes 
 
their rustling hints at a changing tide 
leaves cover bare earth in false pride 
through amber days, a twilight's gleam 
autumn's embrace, a passing dream 
 
nature's canvas painted with care 
a tapestry of change beyond compare 
those leaves remind me as if a satire  
that this life is a constant shellfire 
 
yet in its stance,  promises are made 
for rebirth and renewal to cascade 
as a timeless ode to loyalty of change 
in seasons' plays, out of my range 
 
 
Well, I tried!   
 
 
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