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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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"Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself."
CHARLIE CHAPLIN


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Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet
confinement of your aloneness
to learn
anything or anyone
that does not bring you alive
is too small for you.

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This is my supplementary blog in which I will post entries written for prompts.

January 20, 2024 at 11:24am
January 20, 2024 at 11:24am
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Prompt:
“Snowfall rouses your inner child to dream and play once more.” — Angie Weiland-Crosby
I've got snow on the brain... as does mother nature. Let this quote inspire you!

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Neither my inner child nor my outer one have seen snowfall in the last couple of decades, but then, this is what I get for living in South FL.

In memory, I shall never forget those flakes like white cotton puffs falling on my head and covering our then-yard like a quilt. It was as if the snow was saying to earth, "Hush, you nature's child; time to stay silent in your crib. It's my turn, now!"

So here's something short.

Snowfall

in the silent realm of winter's hush
dances of flakes start to rush

from heaven's height, a gentle call
a ballet of white, a snowfall

each flake becomes a masterpiece,
in fleeting joy, falls with ease

and snow pirouettes in loving grace
blankets the earth in an embrace




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