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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.
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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 13, 2015 at 12:39pm April 13, 2015 at 12:39pm
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Prompt: After having the worst, the most tiresome day ever, who do you wish to come home to: someone, some animal, or something imagined?
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I always come home to someone I love. Just the sight of him and a quick touch to his lips gives me a reason to breathe. It used to be, I used to come home to him and to our babies. Now that the babies gained their own wings and have flown away, my first home is where he is.
I used to come home to a dog and a cat, too. There is no other welcoming posse as ecstatic and exuberant as one’s animal companions. Yet, we decided not to have animals living with us in old age, in case something happens and we cannot take care of them properly.
Nowadays, since I have grown into being a homebody, I love coming home to our house, to the walls with memories hanging on them, to my desk, to my kitchen, to my writing. It feels to me I come home here to my entire life, imagined or real from beginning to end, so comforting and so familiar.
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