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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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Everyday Canvas #1074186 added July 20, 2024 at 11:41am
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The Moon
Prompt:
Write about the moon in your entry today on the =55th anniversary of man's first step on the moon.
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Under the silvery veil of the moon, dreams take flight with the impossible becoming possible. Maybe that was why Neil Armstrong took that giant leap when Apollo 11 landed on the moon's surface. Maybe he was making sure that dreams can become tangible realities.
Those images of that barren landscape captured all our imaginations. At that moment, on our old Minolta, we also captured our older son's image holding on to our old-time console TV as he gazed at the black and white screen. Our son, was nine-months old then, and he had recently taken his first wobbly steps, just like Neil Armstrong. In that way, the moon also became a cradle of dreams for me whenever I look back to that time of so many years ago.
Emotions aside, the moon, that day, became a symbol of our space exploration and a reminder of our place in the universe. The craters and valleys on the moon tell a story of cosmic collisions and ancient impacts, and the moon itself contains the history of space written in the language of the stars.
In 1969, therefore, we finally grasped the fact that the moon was not only the subject of myth and legend, but also a living entity that probably connected humanity to the rest of the creation, and possibly to the divine. In short, the moon is enchanting, magical, mystical, but at the same time, so very natural.
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