About This Author
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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Mushrooms, Splinters, and Thorns #327022 added October 13, 2009 at 6:05pm Restrictions: None
Gossip
Gossip
Another weekday afternoon in the making,
the hours seep out in faithful rows,
crowding over stalwart desks,
as resentful voices coil
around the water cooler with
bodacious gossip
whispered in loyal circles
about the quirky burnout
punching the clock,
punching the file cabinet,
punching the boss,
in the emptiness of
what he was running away from.
And my annoyance tries to clear out the rubble,
by hitting the keys with gusto,
as if this will save me from his fate
and this tittle-tattle under dimmed lights;
one ludicrous incident in fickle February
no heavier than dust on the bookshelves.
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