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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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"Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself."
CHARLIE CHAPLIN
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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.
September 20, 2017 at 9:24pm September 20, 2017 at 9:24pm
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Prompt: Many people showcase their pumpkins like art objects of porcelain or pottery. Do you feel this way about displaying your pumpkins?
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Not really. A pumpkin can only serve as a temporary art because, in time, pumpkins shrivel, go bad, and smell. They are not worth the time to turn them into art objects, but I am sure there has to be a way to keep them longer; if not, it will be invented quite soon, as there is something about pumpkins that make me and most other people feel happy.
When my kids were small, I used to buy the largest pumpkin I could find. Then we’d carve it and put it by the fireplace. Nowadays, if I find pumpkin colored gourds or really tiny pumpkins in early fall, I line them up on the window sill in the kitchen. That is about it.
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