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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.


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December 18, 2025 at 2:31pm
December 18, 2025 at 2:31pm
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Prompt:
Knights In White Satin By The Moody Blues.
Write about this song in your Blog entry today.

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Such mystery! I can't even imagine a knight in white satin. If I saw one, I'd probably run away from him immediately.

So, since I very much like its drooling music but can't force my imagination on it, I think there must be something autobiographical about this song, with deeply personal experiences or emotions tied to it. Off the top of my head, I'm guessing the themes of the song could be longing, love, or loss. (As usual?) The knight might be the songwriter's inner world, or psyche, maybe.

I can also sense a feeling of nostalgia for a mythical past that could only exist in the songwriter's mind, referring to an ideal lost world or age where heroes roamed and love was the strongest force in life.

Yet, after viewing the lyrics of the song, the reference to Galileo and the stars made me feel confused. Then, I thought, possibly, the referral was to the Renaissance and its humanistic ideals. Such ideals might refer to what is scientific as well as what is mystical. I don't know how this has anything to do with the songwriter's psyche, but each to his own, in this matter.

I, therefore, am daring to say that this songwriter had difficult relationship struggles, and he wrote this song as if a confessional.

And confessional though it might be, the song's melody soars splendidly and through it, the songwriter's vulnerability and inner world is implied beautifully and suggestively.


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Edited to Add: Now this song is playing inside my head and I can't get rid of it! *Rolling*





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