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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 #939532 added August 11, 2018 at 2:47pm Restrictions: None
Watching the Meteor Showers (a poem)
Prompt: The new moon of August comes on Saturday the 11th this year, perfectly timed to bring dark, moonless nights around the peak of the Perseid meteor shower. Indeed, 2018 is an excellent year to watch for these meteors; such moonless-sky conditions are ideal for observing the Perseids.
Write a story or poem using the meteor showers somehow. Have fun on this creative Saturday!
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Watching the Meteor Showers
I’ll leave this estate for another soon
migrating like a monarch butterfly
to slide on slopes of some unknown place
to mull over the dark beauty of a hybrid past
not grasping whether it is fact or false memory
when in rearview mirrors all will seem minute
like forgotten old melodies
of the reprisal kind
decrescendo, diminuendo
but tonight, I won’t lose my words in spooling themes
and I’ll let me celebrate your kisses and twinkling eyes
then eagerly gaze overhead for new sensations
away from earthly lights, as if in dreams,
at bright shooting stars showering in sheets
rigging the sky in one sprinkled symmetry of rocks
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