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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 #933371 added April 24, 2018 at 8:28pm
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Cardboard Boxes
Prompt: What do you think of cardboard boxes, their uses, or abuses? And what memories they may contain, if any?
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I keep potting soil and peat moss in a large cardboard box which is placed on top of another larger box in the garage, so when I repot a plant I don’t have to bend down and the soil mixtures stay drier.
I love cardboard boxes for temporary storage, too. I keep my physical books on the to-read list in another smaller box. When a book is finished, another takes its place and the already read book goes on to a shelf or is given away. I got into this habit, years ago when we were traveling a lot. I used to leave in hotel and motel desks the books I was done with. I was even part of a group who did such stuff, like leaving books in all kinds of public places. I don’t know what became of that group.
After a friend passed away, a long time ago, some things he had willed to me were handed to me in a cardboard box. Inside it, he had one of my books, something I had translated, from long ago. I kept the box and the mementos together. I also keep the photos I didn’t have time to place in albums in a cardboard box placed in a plastic box. I find a plastic box alone does not keep things intact as much as a cardboard box placed inside a plastic box.
Then, let a child play with a big box, that box will turn into a rocket, or a castle, or a playhouse. In fact, most children end up playing with the box more after they open it up than the toy that came in it.
After all, we are like cardboard boxes, packaging things inside, such as beauty, sadness, fun, anger, joy, cleverness, inventiveness, kindness, etc. Once we dare to open up, we can let the sunshine in or sometimes, even a playful cat.
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