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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.

David Whyte


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This is my supplementary blog in which I will post entries written for prompts.

December 4, 2014 at 11:50am
December 4, 2014 at 11:50am
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Prompt: Create a Top Ten List of your favorite Christmas activities. Your favorite should be #1.



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1. Listening to Bach, Corelli, and Vivaldi on Christmas Eve.

2. Watching people be nice to each other and wishing they would carry it throughout the year, but ALAS!

3. Poinsettias and wreaths…giving them as gifts and hanging a wreath of holly on the door

4. Watching children on Santa’s lap in the mall

5. New York City during Christmas time, even if I am not there anymore to wander around.

6. Seeing everyone’s Christmas trees with their family-specific ornaments on them

7. The Christmas tree on Rockefeller Center, walking through FAO Schwartz’s toy store, and if you have never been there, here’s a YouTube video, although it doesn’t do it enough justice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwS33vl_Ehc

8. Egg-nog although I can’t drink it anymore at my age.

9. People making Christmas cookies, jams, handmade items and giving them as gifts instead of squishing others to buy stuff

10. Amish ginger cookies, German Pfeffernüsse, Bavarian Springerle, French meringues, Scillian Fig cookies…There’s more, but I’m enlarged far too much sideways already, just by the mention of them.



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