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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.

April 1, 2016 at 1:25am
April 1, 2016 at 1:25am
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Prompt: Last will and punishment says what to you on this first day of April. Take it in any direction you want.

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Happy April!
April Fools' Day today, isn't it? Just made for me.

As for the prompt, is last will a punishment or is it punishment to think and worry about the last will? The chicken and the egg, right?
Here's what I came up with, off the top of my head:


Worrywart

He watches his son pour out the sand
from a toy spiderman bucket,
creating craggy continents
but it will be over, after surging waves, towels,
beach balls rolling out many summers,
and, so soon!

Those amber shells will end up in a jar
just like human dust
for the last will to be read
just not yet,
not before the sunscreen dries off
and popsicle sticks are discarded.

He wipes his brow, divining,

the future is almost here
and its trap is set.

Such punishment
for one sunburned prophet of doom
with blistering imagination!


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