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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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Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet
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.
December 31, 2016 at 11:03am December 31, 2016 at 11:03am
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Prompt: Happy New Year's Eve! Happy New Years!
What is your favorite memory of this night? Do you stay up to watch the ball drop? Get together with friends or family? Go to bed like any other night? Do you have a secret fantasy you are waiting to happen on this night?
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My first favorite memory of a New Year’s Eve is the time I spent celebrating with my cousins while I was in my teens. My second favorite memory of a New Year’s celebration is a New Year’s Eve Ball my husband and I attended when we were newlyweds.
Do I stay up to see the ball drop? That is the 64 thousand-dollar question. We have done that every new year’s eve when we didn’t go somewhere.
With the onset of the terrorism era, I am not so sure I have been enjoying to watch the ball drop. Probably the TV will be on, but I am planning on starting to read a new book, instead. If something happens, I don’t want to watch it in realtime. I still haven’t gotten over watching 9/11 as it happened, and I don’t need another PTSD event in my psyche.
For tonight, no getting together with friends and family is in our plans as people have their own problems or business to attend to, and the only fantasy I have is for nothing nasty to happen to anyone on the face of this crazy earth.
I wish, therefore, a wonderful 2017 to everyone with health, happiness, and success. I guess wishing for world peace might be asking for too much, but what the heck… I definitely wish for world peace, too!
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