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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Just what do you mean
I am not being allowed
to miss the boat?
Don't you know I already
missed it
as it passed me by
though I noticed
its huge shape
and heard its warning horn
and the captain's
desperate shout?
But knowing I'd miss
the boat anyhow,
I chose to drive
my own car
and waved goodbye
at the boat,
its warning horn,
and the frenzied captain
though I always fancied
the sea
Yet, as nothing goes
quite as planned,
who'd know I'd crash the car
and stand stranded
in the middle of the road
like the joke I am
dreaming of
the wide open ocean
out there
with the blues
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Prompt:
No one will be allowed to miss the boat. Write about this in your Blog entry today.
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