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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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May 1, 2007 at 9:58am
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Prompt 43 -- Others
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Others

So difficult they are
those--others--
invading my shoulders
with their weight,
while their rebukes
blind the view,
just when I am about to live.
Their floating mouths
join ghosts with orphans
of dead dreams, and then
they cower and wither
like fallen petals,
but when I search for
their true whereabouts,
I find them hiding in agony
inside the hospice of my heart.

“Hell is--other people!” From No Exit by Jean Paul Sartre



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Prompt 43 -- Others
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