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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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Daily Cascade #1084839 added March 5, 2025 at 12:58pm
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"March Madness"
Prompt:
Write about March Madness for your Blog entry today.
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Interesting prompt! But I had to look it up to find out to what "March Madness" exactly refers.
"The NCAA Division I men’s basketball tournament is a single-elimination tournament of 68 teams that compete in seven rounds for the national championship. The penultimate round is known as the Final Four, when (you guessed it) only four teams are left."
From---https://www.ncaa.com/
I never liked to watch others play a sport on TV. I'd rather be a player in that game myself. When I was 12, one of my uncles took me to a soccer game. The poor guy paid for me and all that. But I was more interested in the people on the stands screaming obscenities and jumping up and waving their arms up and down. I was so intrigued and entertained by those people that I had no idea what was happening in the game. Soon enough, my uncle caught on to my interest in the cursing and what not. That must be why he never took me to another game again. To this day, the people in the stands fill me with wonder. Is it because they associate "their team" too closely with their own psyches?
The association of "March Madness" relating to basketball came about in the 1980s. If instead of soccer, had my uncle taken me to a basketball game, I might have shown more interest in the game since I played basketball in high school...well, not so greatly, but still, I liked the game.
I don't exactly know at what else we can apply the phrase "March Madness" other than basketball, but I can guess. To me, personally, there is madness in March with all the March birthdays including mine, as I mentioned in an earlier entry. Then, sometimes, a department store will advertise its sales as "March Madness" but their voice sounds definitely muted in comparison to basketball.
It might just be that the term may have referred to the tempestuous character of the weather in March. And just maybe, to the people who were born in March. 
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