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 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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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.
 
 
		
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Prompt: Have fun with these words: Deserve, desperate, designs, degrees, determine and anxiety. 
 
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With her fear rising  
to *desperate *degrees 
the cat jumps on my lap  
with a plea, "Meow, meow 
pyrotechnics are getting to me" 
 
thus, with steady nerves and no mistake  
I *determine a path of peace  
we both *deserve, but ouch!  
*anxiety and meows overtake 
the *designs of fate, for a while 
 
so I pray to heavens not to be late 
to let fireworks end, and though  
I'm bold, lo and behold, about eleven 
the chaos settles, and we're okay, and  
now it is us, woman and cat at play  
 
 
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