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 #937570 added July 7, 2018 at 12:56pm Restrictions: None
What I Have
Have you ever been so focused on what you're losing that you don't see what you have? What happened to make you realize what you were doing?
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Have I ever? Not so much. I am not of the kind who cries over spilled milk.
A thought or two might have passed through my mind, maybe when I was much younger. Maybe when I had to stay home for a while and take care of kids until they were grown up, but even then, I worked from home. So, that wasn’t a major loss and, of course, I wanted to be with my children more than anything. Keeping busy and reading a lot help with any kind of preoccupation our minds push on us.
Past is past, and now, in old age, I am very thankful for what I have, and I don’t look back all that much.
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