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

March 9, 2016 at 2:49pm
March 9, 2016 at 2:49pm
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Prompt: Not one day can erase the memory of time. What is your take on this?

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This sounds like a riddle, at best. I wondered if it were a quote but it isn’t; I checked. The closest is what is written on the 9/11 memorial, and I’ll come to that after what I think the riddle means.

If a riddle: After wondering if this had to do with the daylight savings time, which is only one hour and not a day, I am taking a wild guess: Time is such a great entity that even a highlighted day with lots of events and emotions in it cannot erase or change the infinite-quality of it. Sometimes, we may live decades, but even one special day, as strong as it may be in our memory, cannot outdo the rest of our time. We still have to live through it.

If a quote: In the Memorial Museum, the inscription on the wall in front of the 9/11 victims says, “No day shall erase you from the memory of time.” This is the translation from Latin of The Aeneid “Nulla dies umquam memori vos eximet aevo.” This, however, is said to be inappropriate by the experts of the classics. The word “vos-you” refers to Nisus and Euryalus, the two warrior-lovers who, in an orgy of violence, skewered ambushed soldiers in their sleep. The quote’s context must have slipped the attention of the people who were in charge of the Memorial; on the other hand, it is the good will that counts, and taken in its literal meaning, the quote seems to be appropriate. I doubt, however, that this is what the prompt is about.

Since I can’t come up with anything else, I guess, I’ll know better after I read Megan’s entry. *Smile*


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