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 #933672 added April 29, 2018 at 9:06pm Restrictions: None
Answering Prompts of Three Days
Prompt: What's one of your most favorite Springtime activities, and how did you happen to get into it?
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We don’t have springtime where I live. Instead, we have a jumble of seasons without snow from December to May, then from May to September, very hot summers.
However, when we used to live in Long Island, NY, we had the springtime all right, and my favorite activity was putting in the seeds or saplings for the vegetable garden and feeding or pruning the roses and other plants and trees.
Prompt: The little blue boy and the man on the moon and???
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the man on the moon
has a blank look
carved off the air
but he sends a smile
to the wild dogs howling
and to the little blue boy
holding no illusions
of dancing, inside him
Prompt: “Sometimes love is nothing more than a sticky web; illusions spun from clever minds and bitter hearts.” ― Nicole Lyons
"Good God, no. The lies we tell other people are nothing to the lies we tell ourselves.”
― Derek Landy, Death Bringer
What's worse--- telling someone the truth and hurting their feelings or lying to them to spare their feelings?
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It all depends on the other person. If the truth you’re going to tell the other person will force him or her to go into deep depression or cause them to have a heart attack, you’d better keep that truth to yourself.
On the other hand, if the truth may hurt their feelings at the moment but help them in the long run, it’ll be the most humane thing to stick your neck out.
If the truth would hurt their feelings and not help them, it may be a good idea to take the fifth.
You don’t have to blatantly lie to spare anyone’s feelings. Even if hiding the truth can be considered a form of lying, you can evade the question or saying something by changing the subject.
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