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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.
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to learn
anything or anyone
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This is my supplementary blog in which I will post entries written for prompts.
January 5, 2019 at 4:52pm January 5, 2019 at 4:52pm
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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 Lyn's a Witchy Woman 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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