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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. Kiya's gift. I love it!
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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 3, 2016 at 1:29pm
September 3, 2016 at 1:29pm
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Prompt: Ian McEwan assumed a fetal position in his most recent publication Nutshell. He was discussing with his very pregnant daughter-in-law about the baby when it came to mind this opening line-- "So here I am,upside down in a woman." I'd like you to begin your entry with the same opening line.and take it any way you want... have fun!

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So here I am, upside down in a woman. I mean my body is a woman, but what about my soul? Does the soul belong to a gender or does it recognize its being upside down?

I always felt I was upside down ever since I was born only because I used to believe I was on the wrong planet as if they meant to put me in a place that made better sense but they missed the station and left me on this God-forsaken globe and pulled away.

A major thing I never understood about this planet is its wars. Why? Is it because our ratty spirits are lifted to an ecstasy of contrariness? Don’t we see that the place we’re on is much, much smaller than the tip of a needle on the large map of the cosmos? What if we lose it due to our inanity? Why can’t nations see this?

I could go on and on, but I am making myself stop. All this thinking and useless wondering may just be because Florida has its fair share of fools and I am one of them. Maybe it is the cheaper generic drugs that make us talk and write like this. Yet, I didn’t always talk like this, nor write like this. Everything changes with age. At this junction, the function of my diction shrinks the language and maybe my thinking, too. So, I better stop my freeflow here as my windmill is running out of wind. *Laugh*

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Note: I love Ian MacEwan’s writing, Atonement, The Children's Act, etc., but I didn’t know of this novel. Surprise! So I checked it. It seems it hasn’t been published yet, at least not in the US. Its publication date is shown as September 13, 2016. I’m looking forward to reading it. *Smile*


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