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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Everyday Canvas #928079 added January 30, 2018 at 11:25pm Restrictions: None
Basic Elements
Prompt: "Life was reduced to it's 4 basic elements: air, food, drink and a good friend." Sue Grafton What are your views on this?
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Since a good percentage of the earth’s population cannot have those four elements and a certain percentage of the folks do have the first three but not the last one, ‘a good friend,’ the world has a long way to go for supplying all the basics to everyone.
Speaking for myself, however, those basic elements I appreciate very much, of course, but without the arts, music, and writing, my alphabet isn’t complete, but then, Sue Grafton’s wasn’t either, although she almost made it with Y is for Yesterday.
I’ll miss Sue Grafton. There was a time when I was following Kinsey Millhone’s exploits as if her shadow. Too bad for the letter Z. This is what happens when you are the last one waiting on line.
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