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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!
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Other than Writing
Prompt: Everything has something that resembles it or is equivalent to it in some way. What is writing’s equivalent for you besides reading, which is its obvious twin?

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Creativity is just as important to humans as the need for air because it gives meaning to living. Creativity also builds character, which means writers are creative people. At this time, and always, I thought writing to be the most creative and the closest to my heart. With that, there is no equivalent anything.

As for my attempt at creativity other than writing, I studied the piano and then painting, at an earlier time. Then at another time, I put in and kept a vegetable garden and a rose garden with 55 rose-bushes.

Now in my life, since I don’t live in that house with my gardens anymore, my interests have dwindled down to a few flower pots. Nowadays, on a minute scale, I am trying to learn photography. Also, sewing, baking, and cooking are what I do. Of everything I played with up to now, I miss painting the most, but it is difficult to deal with paints and such again when I have so many other things to do, especially writing.

I have always believed that when we practice any form of creativity, we also express our reality by producing concrete things that result from our ideas. In addition, when the events of life can cause conflicts and may haunt us, working at something creative can be a therapy because while we create, we also build self-worth and face our fears of failure. As a result, we may learn to look at life through a more positive lens.

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