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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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Daily Cascade
Since my old blog "Everyday Canvas "  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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Prompt:
“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Do you think life can be a garden, and if so, do you like flowers? Which ones?
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Oh, who doesn't love a garden! Once upon a time, I had a huge garden, in which I raised many kinds of plants and flowers. Now what I have, in a different state and house, is lawn that other people take care of, but this is okay, too.
In this quote from The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett talks about the power of seeing what's been dealt to us with optimism, and not only looking without understanding. The key phrase here is "If you look the right way." This phrase points to the way we see and experience life.
A person who appreciates life notices with hope the beauty in everyday life. Such a person's internal view will be of flowers, alive, colorful, and beautiful, instead of dirt and weeds, unlike the internal view of a person who only focuses on the negative.
This goes to show that even in difficult circumstances, we have the opportunity of transformation just like a garden that flourishes under the care, attention, and patience of its gardener. In fact, this quote is a reminder of the fact that the way we look at things shapes our reality. If we can be smart enough to choose hope, potential, and beauty, life will reflect that back to us.
In my own imaginary garden, therefore, I would like all kinds of flowers, especially roses, violets, asters, daisies, orchids, lilacs, and even weeds, which have powers little-known by us, with which they enrich the soil; however, I would never let the weeds take over the garden, but I would only use them here and there for learning from negative experiences.
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