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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.

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

March 25, 2016 at 5:02pm
March 25, 2016 at 5:02pm
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Prompt: Write a poem or a story, based on one of the following themes: Fearful love ---- Whispers

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A Coward...Still


Your downcast eyes with lashes like butterfly wings
my head full of vaporous ghosts, whispering
mockeries, heavy sighs, wet cheeks
still, fair words and reverent tone...
we’re like children who never smile
life, a tortuous wry joke
about the miles we’ve traveled apart
and their mirrorlike glint of convoluted recall.

Seized by a foretaste of a miracle
our gazes meet but I look quickly away
after surveying your scorched interiors
for alarms are chilling my neurons and I know
the best way is to let go
as if letting go is so easy
as if I could erase what’s been etched
deep into my bones.

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This is what came to me, sappy as it may be, although the advice for writing love poetry from powerpoetry.org is: “Don’t worry about making your poem sound too sappy or romantic. Just be yourself, use your personality, and write about the things that might be a little harder to say out loud. Yeah, it sounds corny, but the best poems are the ones that come from your heart.”
Except I can’t tell from which corner of my heart the above thing arose. Maybe the one containing the trash bins. *Laugh*



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