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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!
Daily Cascade
Since my old blog "Everyday Canvas Open in new Window. became overfilled, here's a new one. This new blog item will continue answering prompts, the same as the old one.


Cool water cascading to low ground
To spread good will and hope all around.


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January 3, 2025 at 12:47pm
January 3, 2025 at 12:47pm
#1081902
Prompt:
Use these words in your entry today: selflessness, heroic, determination, fierce, longshots, peanuts, and timeouts


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Defeat

his *heroic *determination, immense
selflessness* reigned, and he made sense

my husband said, "Be brave, no one is here to stay"
while I chased his *longshots, faraway

and I was *fierce and bold, against all odds
I challenged medicine with doctors its gods

yet never got a break, tiny like *peanuts
for *timeouts and doom reshaped my struts

since, "brave" alone was never enough
losing a loved one for the heart is rough.





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