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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 #935246 added May 25, 2018 at 12:56pm Restrictions: None
Guilt
Prompt: Write a story or poem about a broken promise.
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Guilt
hard to understand how primal my need
to get over this
this promise that sparkled in your eyes
and crossed an ocean to survive
in my blood, simmering slowly
as a glorious hope
yet the distances spoke and I broke it
with my own hands
into thousand pieces
and now each shard pierces through my skin,
sighing, whispering, prickling
like chimera inside my flesh
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