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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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#956355 added April 11, 2019 at 2:57pm
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April and Criticism
Prompt: Write a poem about Spring and April.


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I liken April to a young carefree girl
with an angelic grace
slight waist
eyes wide open
with sweetness and fragrance
of flowers and spices,
and in her itinerary,
a rippling creek,
vegetation, and rain

for in the stream of time
her silky green outfit
will take on
dazzling summer colors
in wavy red-hot patterns
and a mature scorching style

Such a downgrading gesture
to reinvent oneself!



Mixed flowers in a basket



Prompt: What was your most memorable piece of criticism, good or bad?

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If the critique will help me or is done by a knowledgeable person, I appreciate it greatly whether it is good or bad, but when the critique becomes a criticism with bad intentions, then I see red.

Case in point: This was many years ago. Right here in Wdc, a member wanted to get back at me for a reason, in which she was in the wrong, and she re-registered as a gray case to give a one star to a horror story I had just written, and she said something like, “Why do you write such a scary story? Can’t you write something soft and sweet?”

It wasn't the one star that got me but her comment. I have no words for such an action.



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