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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.
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Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet 
confinement of your aloneness 
to learn 
anything or anyone 
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This is my supplementary blog in which I will post entries written for prompts.
 
 August 22, 2024 at 12:44pm August 22, 2024 at 12:44pm 
		
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Prompt:  
By the dark of the moon.  
Write about this in your Blog entry today. 
 
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The Dark of the Moon 
 
when the night whispers low 
a silence in which soft shadows 
glow, a moment so frail and 
the world wears its veil 
by the dark of the moon, 
 
why death came so soon and  
her tiny body took flight  
and wind swayed to cradle 
my cat in tender display 
by the dark of the moon 
 
She's gone suddenly to find  
the truths she seeked in 
this mixed-up world, with a life 
so unique, inside the stillness  
of night and the dark of the moon 
  
 
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For Noche  -RIP- (March 2008-08/17/2024)  
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