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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 24, 2017 at 2:30pm September 24, 2017 at 2:30pm
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PROMPT: Are national anthems before sporting events really necessary? What purpose do they serve the average in-attendance fan before the game?
Something needs to be there to remind the folks that a game is about to begin. Otherwise, they wouldn’t pay attention to what’s going on the field and miss some of the action, which would lead to audience apathy.
A national anthem, however, should be spared for national days and celebrations, in my opinion. This way, public disrespect to the symbols of a nation may be avoided.
As an alternative, maybe someone should come up with a sports anthem to be used everywhere in the world because other nations, also, use their anthems before their sporting events.
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Prompt: What did you do on the first day of fall or spring depending on where you live? Share your ordinary or maybe not so ordinary day with us.
I think the first day of celebrating any season is from much earlier eras when people depended on the seasons for their food production and other welfare, before the greenhouses, factories, and such stuff were invented. Sometimes people celebrated those days by also attaching a religious concept to them.
As for me, the first day of any season is just another day. While I lived up north, I know a few first days of spring when a snowstorm was raging. The first day of fall where I now live is just as hot or quirky as in August.
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