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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.
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Everyday Canvas #928313 added February 3, 2018 at 8:44pm Restrictions: None
Seven Words and Groundhog Day
Prompt: Create something with these words dictionary, have fun.
freighter shoot sock cut hammer estimate psychology
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Within me, a freighter carrying
hammers for knocking out idols
to sock or shoot them out
with quixotic likelihood.
In psychology’s estimate,
this is a guise of self-esteem
or the self taking off on its own.
Which way you cut it,
I get the short end of the stick
not knowing
everyone I love will be safe
from my freighter or my hammers
for knocking out idols
or from the hole in my head.
Prompt: You just stepped in the movie Groundhog Day, and everything in your life keeps repeating over and over. Is having do-overs a good thing or a bad thing? What will it take for the spell to break?
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I would so hate that! I don’t read the same book twice. I hate rewrites. Edits I’ll take, but rewrites drive me up the wall. It is a miracle I lived with my husband for 52 years, to his credit, not mine.
My life repeating over and over would just about kill me if I am conscious of it. Better, if someone hit me on the head and knocked me out.
I don’t know what would make the spell to break. Imagining, I am in such a situation while I am aware of it, I would probably do something extraordinary or drastic to get out of it or else, it would have to be an interference from the higher power.
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