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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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Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet
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This is my supplementary blog in which I will post entries written for prompts.

March 12, 2016 at 12:13pm
March 12, 2016 at 12:13pm
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Prompt: Does a particular song or piece of music get you energized? Write about a time when the right song at the right moment helped you power through.

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I guess the right song at the right moment can help a person through; yet, I can’t remember any song in an adverse situation helping me, although I always find tranquility in listening to a few selected classical music pieces and encouragement in some songs. Then, vice versa, some songs pull me down, too.

I can understand how people, who go through hardships and relationship problems, can prefer sad music that reflects their negative mood. It is as if their grief becomes validated. On the other hand, joyful or relaxing music can provide some kind of a therapy.

If I am not mistaken, even a music therapy association is in existence. In medicine, music is used as well. I recall being asked what kind of music I preferred during a cat-scan, possibly because music has a way to calm the brain with soothing sounds to make the patients breathe easier and to slow down their heart rates while they are pushed inside a machine that may give them claustrophobia.

Although in general, I prefer Beethoven’s music, my favorite being the Moonlight Sonata, there are two songs I like that make me feel more cheerful. They are:







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