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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.

May 16, 2015 at 11:02pm
May 16, 2015 at 11:02pm
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Prompt: Put on a cape and declare yourself the super-duper hero of something...properly conjugated verbs, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, run-on sentences, maybe the best photographer...whatever sweet place you are ready or not ready to claim as yours. Tell us all about it! Shape yourself or shake yourself into this new role... I have faith in your abilities.

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Although I am limping and my cape is torn, I proudly declare myself as the hero of reading. True, in no way am I faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, or able to leap tall buildings in a single bound, but I read non-stop.

Last night I had only two hours of sleep over the book Nightingale by Kristin Hannah, the book I wanted to read during the last month or so, but this is nothing. There have been nights I never slept because of a book. Not good for this hero’s health, but no hero worth her salt ever puts her health above her heroic deeds.

Tonight, I am going to finish the book, and all day today I have been itching to get to it, but it is Saturday, and my weekends have a way of butting into my hero business. Since yesterday, because Nightingale is a borrowed book, I left my three e-readers untouched with half-read books in each one of them. In order not to mix the plots in the books that I concurrently read, I pick books in different genres or with very different plots. Heroism necessitates careful planning because of a hero's Achilles’ heel, and my heels have already been admonished several times over, for stepping on my cape and tearing it to shreds.


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