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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 #1085392 added March 14, 2025 at 10:55am Restrictions: None
Prompt Words
Prompt:
Have fun with these words: mathematician, birthday, oddity, clutter, papers, eccentric, quirks, sailing, and promiscuous.
Take a guess on what these clues also will tell you about this person on their birthday.
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The Mathematician’s Birthday
the *mathematician has a *birthday today
lost in thoughts, numbers, and fractions at play
his *papers, his mess, in random sprawl,
and *clutter and numbers, his mind holds them all
*quirks, equations, his *eccentric delight
an *oddity *sailing, well into the night
still, he pines and wonders over an old affair
*promiscuous maybe, but no, he could swear
on theorems, graphs, angles forever anew
he's just bound and chained to only one view
the mathematician turned sixty today
thinking of an old love and fractions at play
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