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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.
 
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Everyday Canvas #991176 added August 19, 2020 at 2:51pm
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Morning and Politicians
For "Blog City ~ Every Blogger's Paradise" 
Prompt: What is your favorite part of the morning?
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The fact that I woke up. There is so much to be said about waking up. Especially when we wake up to our truths. I like the phrase “wake up.” 
Even when talking about the actual waking up in the morning idea, the alternative wouldn’t be so happy on the people who’d find me motionless, would it?
I also wake up, in the morning, to recognize that I am in one piece and whatever I did or wherever I went was just a dream, which has floated off to nothingness. This is the best recovery one can have.
When I wake up, I don’t just jump out of bed. I think inside my head the things I need to do during the day and form a rough mental list.
Maybe one day, I won’t wake up at all. Neither will I need to make mental lists. Or maybe I’ll wake up to a better place than this crazy earth. That, too, will be exciting and acceptable to me.
For: "Space Blog"
Prompt: From Tim Chiu   ’s "Righting the Ship: A Tide Beckons" .
"Allow the sounds to vacate,
Avail their raucous strength,
With each and every vile strait
Those preachers raise at length."
Do you think politicians are preachers or do they promise us things they have no intention of delivering?
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Politics are everywhere. Religion, not so much or rather not effectively enough. While preachers are being accused of offering too much religious talk, politicians can very well be accused of spewing too much garbage. It means, there is such a thing as the gift of gab versus such a thing as the gift of garbage.
As teaching is done by repetition mostly, I don’t blame the preachers, but the politicians should just shut up telling us lies. Most of them stretch the truths, promise the impossible, and are politically incorrect while they are treating us like ignoramuses. If that’s not an insult on this nation’s honor, I don’t know what is.
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