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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!
Green Peas at Stake
#577226 added April 2, 2008 at 6:03pm
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Graffiti Writers -- For April Poetry month -1
Graffiti Writers

Outside the window, the graffiti slows,
as the train pulls up to the platform.
The loudspeaker grants a parasitic explanation
of in and out destinations, and your work boasts
fattened, multihued letters like fresh croissants
and the crafty hands that baked them.
Such quizzical shifts in our styles...
but still in the same leisurely way, you throw
yours on the streets like discarded postcards;
I write my graffiti inside spiral notebooks with
crazy-legged letters, dressed in suits,
and we both lack that cutting edge voice
of the big man on the mic who sings his
tender words in tough-in-your-face format,
vividly presenting our extinction.

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