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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!
Off the Cuff / My Other Journal
#719717 added March 13, 2011 at 7:39pm
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From the Left Side of Life
I am so strongly right-handed. I must have started using my right hand even when I was a cell, way before I became a fetus. But after so many years of life, I got curious about writing with my left hand.

Where did that come from? I read a book on neurobics; that is, brain training or brain aerobics, sort of.

I started writing or rather trying to write left-handed immediately with dire results. Then I ran a search on left-handedness and found out that they had special pens for the left-handed people. No wonder some of my lines didn't quite make it while others turned too dark. I must have pushed the pen down on the paper too hard or too light or too sideways.

I had hoped attempting to write left-handed would make me smarter or maybe more creative. Alas! I'm hopeless. Plus, after writing a page, my head feels like a something went upside down in it, making my thoughts wobble, even more than they usually do.

Anyway, it was an experience.

On the other hand, I could have written something on my own, even a haiku, instead of wasting time by copying other people's work. *Laugh*

On the left- my left-handed writing           On the right - my normal not too great handwriting
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