About This Author
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.
David Whyte
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This is my supplementary blog in which I will post entries written for prompts.
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Prompt: Have you had any bad experiences with gardening or planting flowers? Let's talk about them.
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I planted extensively when we lived up north. The only bad experience came when I had to clear some bushes, which I didn’t know were poison ivy. After that, nothing bad happened, and I was touted as having a green thumb, since those bushes I had warred with had cultivated a first-rate quality of soil. I had a high-volume productive vegetable garden there and another rose garden with 55 rose bushes. I even had a rose tree, on which I had grafted five different roses. It was a delight to see different roses on one huge bush.
Some bad experiences did happen in Florida, to whose flora and fauna I wasn’t accustomed in the beginning. As a result, I narrowed my gardening into pot gardening, which needed constant attention due to the crankily hot weather, and that kind of attention, I wasn’t there to give because we had been traveling constantly until the last five years or so. I still have a measly few pots of plants, but I am not finding the same northern enthusiasm in me, anymore. This might be for the better. After all, who needs to fight the elements in old age!
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