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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."
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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.

July 22, 2015 at 12:16pm
July 22, 2015 at 12:16pm
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Prompt: "Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." George Bernard Shaw Do you agree?

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I like Shaw just fine, but create myself? I’d botch it up. I’d have feet coming out of my hair or something.

Joking aside, if by creating he means in a psycho-spiritual way, I’ve done so many things or rather tried doing so many different things that I may end up being like that Sybill character with so many personalities.

Still, as long as I have life and breath left in me, I’ll keep on revising, re-doing, trying different things all the time. And when and if I can pass through the pearly gates, they’ll have a difficult time which one of me to judge.

I guess if I were to answer this prompt with my serious hat on, I would have to say something along the lines of: This prompt is about realizing that we have the ability to craft and shape who we are and what we experience in this world…blah, blah, blah…

Or I could say, I can forgive the past wrongs and forgive myself so I can become a better, re-created person…Blah, blah, blah. But the serious stuff is easy to say and difficult to do, but I do try. I think we all try in our own inimitable ways.

Still, my serious hat can be the joke and my joker’s pointy hat could be the serious one. I am never all that sure of anything. Come to think of it, I am not even sure of the most serious stuff I have ever written, either. *Laugh*


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