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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 28, 2024 at 4:03pm
August 28, 2024 at 4:03pm
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Prompt: "The world can live as one."
A line from John Lennon's song "Imagine". Write about this in your Blog entry today.


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I've loved this song from the very start. I think I first heard it during the very early nineteen seventies. It is said that not John Lennon but his wife Yoko Ono wrote the lyrics. At the time, I didn't know that. Then, when John Lennon's personal problems was made public, I was disappointed. It felt like hypocrisy to me.

Still, we human beings are complicated. People do make mistakes a lot, but we can also change. I hope John Lennon did.

As to the quote from the song, is it really doable? As old as I am, I waited for the world to be one and work as one for a very long time. Just look at the troubles and wars all over now. Not only people cannot agree on anything but also the countries and nations are at odds with one another. Is this the world the song Imagine is talking about?

You know the answer. Yes, the song is a musical wish of peace, unity, and hope for the world, and it's probably the best song ever, but still, my heart breaks for the wishful thinking in it that may never become the truth of us all.





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