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
"Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself."
CHARLIE CHAPLIN
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.
David Whyte
This is my supplementary blog in which I will post entries written for prompts.
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Prompt:"Make a Mistake"
Write a poem for the first day of National Poetry Month. Have fun.
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April One
soon April will commence fully
from beneath the surging time
when I have perched
on the edge of memory
where, through oak trees
a ghostly light shines
down on dark woods,
but here-around me-are
the Windmill Palms, their hands
opening high to the sky,
for blessed indeed
are the songs
of warblers and sparrows
yet, again, I'm a fool today
with my naive poetry
its lines executed so hastily
then to be left alone
like a wet painting
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