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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 2, 2016 at 11:49am
April 2, 2016 at 11:49am
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What have you done recently to grow your imagination? If the answer is "nothing," when did you stop trying to grow your imagination?

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To tell the truth, I didn’t do anything consciously, ever, for the spurring of my imagination. (It figures!) The concept didn’t even occur to me. *Laugh* The way I saw it, imagination IS and that’s that.

Dictionary.com defines imagination as: “the faculty of imagining, or of forming mental images or concepts of what is not actually present to the senses.” To do that, I guess, opening oneself to many experiences would help, so a person, through analogy, can use this type of thinking.

Imagination, however, happens on its own from birth on, if parents do NOT stand in the way of its development. Funny thing is, first parents try to shape a child and hinder him, then act in ways to encourage his imagination. There are tons of articles on encouraging a child’s imagination. Weird! Just exposing the child to many experiences and not standing in his way would work in a much better way on its own.

Coming back to me, throughout my life, I had numerous and wide-ranging experiences, and in early adulthood on, I traveled a lot and experienced several different cultures and languages. In addition, I am a big reader and I’m curious about most anything. I hope all that has helped, but I can’t be sure, can I! *Laugh*


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