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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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Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet
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This is my supplementary blog in which I will post entries written for prompts.

May 4, 2015 at 1:05pm
May 4, 2015 at 1:05pm
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Prompt: On the first page of her new novel, The Nightingale, Kristin Hannah says, “In love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are.” Agree or disagree?

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I guess it depends on the person. For myself, I agree. I can’t speak for everyone else, though. Plus, I am wary of generalized conclusions on human behavior, but this quote is from a novel, and novelists are given free range when it comes to attitudes and opinions.

As to my own behavior, take last year’s Game of Thrones in WdC, for example. I surprised myself in how much I pushed me to make my team win. I never even thought that I was a competitive person, earlier. I found it out in this simple game of ours, here. Then, when I looked back into my life, I found similar behaviors on my part. This behavior seems to come up when I am in a team, however. Alone, I am a wuss.

In love, I believe in love alone, without expecting a return, but that doesn’t mean I’ll let someone walk all over me either. I guess this is who I want to be, and I think I am. Yet, from what I observe in other people, sometimes in myself too, in love we believe totally in sunshine, even if life isn’t like that. Cloudy skies, rainy days, and major storms do exist. Still, love makes us look at life through rose-colored glasses the best we can, provided our love is a pure-bred one without selfishness in its genes.

By the way, I only read The Nightingale from the excerpt Amazon has on its page, but I liked what I saw because it is historical as to World War II and a highly acclaimed book. So it’s on my list to read.


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