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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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This is my supplementary blog in which I will post entries written for prompts.
 
 August 31, 2024 at 1:00pm August 31, 2024 at 1:00pm 
		
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Prompt: 
Use these words in your entry today: refer, sandwich, rebellion, river, reproduce, competence, elegant, conservation, and shock. 
 
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By the River's Edge 
 
 
by the *river's edge, 
a *shock to my senses,  
and in a fleeting trance, 
a *rebellion grows, inside,  
as if it knows, perchance, 
my *sandwich of time will 
be eaten soon, to fulfill  
a soothsayer's prediction  
 
yet, the moon will shine, still 
so I *refer to *elegant nature 
and *conservation's dance, 
for the two can *reproduce  
life with *competence  
and thrills, and for now, 
in my view, nothing's askew  
by the *river's edge. 
 
 
 
 
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