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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!
Daily Cascade
Since my old blog "Everyday Canvas Open in new Window. became overfilled, here's a new one. This new blog item will continue answering prompts, the same as the old one.


Cool water cascading to low ground
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November 22, 2025 at 12:40pm
November 22, 2025 at 12:40pm
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Prompt:
Let the lines of November by Tom Waite inspire your entry today:
" No shadow, no stars, no moon, no care November, it only believes in a pile of dead leaves and a moon the color of bones, November seems odd."
--Tom Waite.


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November isn't odd, really, but in Tom Waite's words, it is stripped bare. By that, I think, he means, all comforts, illusions, and happy stuff are off, forcing us to face the reality of decay, with "No shadow, no stars, no moon."

Shadows offer depth, as anyone who knows art will tell. And no stars and no moon, means we are totally in the dark, even daring the rejection of the divine. November as a month can be detached, but it shouldn't encourage our human indifference, psychologically or spiritually. Anyhow, deep down, the quote points to the way Tom Waite is feeling and thinking, and it has nothing to do with the month or the rest of humanity.

Plus, I sensed a clash between the first sentence and the rest, as the first sentence said, "no moon." Then, the second sentence has in it, "a moon the color of bones." Chilling and descriptive maybe, but a clash is a clash.

This is probably due to a deeply depressed Tom Waite's wish to say that November is so odd and so bad and so unwelcome because it defies expectation. Funny, isn't it that my own feelings about November is totally the opposite since my older son was born on the 20th, and his two cousins were born on the 10th and the 30th. This makes November a happy month for my sister-in-law and me.

The thing is, maybe I'm just a happy-go-lucky person, but I wouldn't attach any negativity to any month in the year. After all, all months show up in different outfits in different parts of our world.




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