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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. Kiya's gift. I love it!
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#941701 added September 19, 2018 at 8:16pm
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Smelling the Roses
Prompt: You have to take time to stop and smell the roses. What do you think this phrase means?

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I think it is a warning which means, slow down before it is too late.

We always have too much to do and not enough time to do all we want or need to do. This has nothing to do with the amount of work or the length of the workweek. Those of us who are retired are probably busier than the time when we had careers and children.

All this makes us rush, resulting in anxiousness, heart palpitations, distraction, and a few other ills. The demands are there, with no whitewashing that fact either, but we are the ones who burden ourselves with the perfect (in my case, near perfect to faulty) execution of meeting those demands.

If we only handled the priorities first and tried not to be so perfect and then took time for ourselves, we would enjoy life more and notice the beautiful sides of it like the roses and other elements of nature.




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