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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. Kiya's gift. I love it!
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#948699 added January 2, 2019 at 11:08am
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Fragrance of a Book
Prompt: "Open a volume and next comes fragrance: fresh, green and inky if it's new or a bit dusty and aged like a grandfather's cozy den" Which do you like better, new books or old books?

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The physical aspects of a book don’t matter much to me, as long as it is readable. Then, its contents, what is written inside it, are the most important. When I was younger, before the electronic anything, the smell of books, old or new, used to stay with me forever. Then came the E-readers.

I now read an old book or a new one on a Kindle, as long as what is written speaks to me in some way. In fact, I prefer to read on an E-reader or my cell phone because something so small and light can contain large volumes that I can hold easily and carry with me wherever I go. In which case, the smell of warm rich words, forgotten verse, and deep thoughts are the better choice to make me feel happy.


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