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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.

David Whyte


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

August 10, 2018 at 9:03pm
August 10, 2018 at 9:03pm
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Prompt: Have fun with these words: steak, pull, true, minor, quotation, confrontation, sin and constant.

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Ropa Vieja

Mine is a minor sin,
rather a prickling rhythm
pulled out of a pincushion
when it comes to writing
in my blog,
for in the heat of taking
concepts apart,
I introduce a constant confrontation
to every quotation
diagonally reinterpreting
with all the clamor and bravura
its highfalutin’ meaning
as if sabotaging a feast
like steak with red hot peppers
--what the chefs from Cuba
call Ropa Vieja, in other words,
old clothes, with tangles and snags--
and while I wiggle my sentences,
I feed my unblemished record
of causing a true disruption.


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