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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.

February 10, 2016 at 11:52pm
February 10, 2016 at 11:52pm
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Prompt: "Carry out a random act of kindness, with no explanation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you." Do you agree?

No, I don’t agree. If one shows kindness to someone, it is for the sake of kindness itself. No reward should be necessary from anyone, even a higher power, at any time.

Frankly speaking, I don’t even like our government’s tax system that gives tax breaks to donations. Granted, the charities get more assistance this way, but it kills the feeling inside the people to do good for goodness’s sake.


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Prompt: What person in history would you like to have been?

Florence Nightingale. She and a team of nurses improved the unsanitary conditions at a British base hospital, reducing the death count by two-thirds. She was the lady with the lamp doing night rounds, giving personal attention to the wounded. I also like the fact that she was a strong, willful woman.

I think she started doing something really special. I love nurses, especially the dedicated ones, but I don’t think I could live up to Florence Nightingale's image had I chosen her profession, which is probably one of the hardest, if not the hardest.

Not that there weren’t caregivers earlier, but her name popped up in my head right away when I read the prompt.


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