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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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#948947 added January 5, 2019 at 4:52pm
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Locking Up
Prompt: Write a story or poem that's inspired by absence or emptiness of a person, place or feeling.

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First version, mine.



Locking the Door

there’s a way out
but she chooses to stay in
to empty out
disposing possessions
unwanted, never used
for she knows
nothing is
what she sees

she decides
to lock the door
her steps at first
the hardest
and a journey begins
to end differently
than intended
just maybe
it’s only a click

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New Improved version after *Heart* Ms. Lucifer Morningstar touched it

Locking the Door

She decides
to lock the door
her steps at first
the hardest
as the journey begins
it ended differently

maybe it's only
a click

there's a way
but she chose to stay
emptying, disposing
unwanted possessions
they were nothing
like she thought

maybe it's only
a click




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