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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.

David Whyte


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

April 15, 2017 at 8:13pm
April 15, 2017 at 8:13pm
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Lost Pathways--- if you found yourself on a road in the middle of nowhere with a storm approaching, how would you make your escape? What does the storm represent to you? What meaning does the road itself hold?

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As to the forecast on my cell
a storm’s afoot, but when it’ll break
hard to tell. The news
hasn’t thawed out, yet
and I can’t bet what it’ll be,
killer rain, gale force winds,
hail, a blizzard, who knows?

Something to snap, drop, bulge,
or open my nutty flesh
to show what I hide
in my insides?
Hard to tell on short notice
and flimsy information.
Why is climate a form of persecution?

And the road I’m on
an avenue of emptiness
of an insecure future
freighted by worry in tripled stacks,
on its hollow sidewalks
where dreams stream in circles
and biased obsessions
as if an exhibit of my internal weather.

I seek no escape
since my habits
make a tightly woven kit
for this road
is a universe revolving
to shape my awkward silences
while I reach everywhere
and get nowhere.


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