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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. ** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only **
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Oct 5, 2005 at 3:37pm
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My prompt is #3
"Both speech and silence are faulty. How can you escape these faults?"


I am speaking;
I know I'm gambling.
Are you listening?
Do you know what's happening?

Over my words I am fumbling
As I am speaking;
My argument is losing
and your focus is leaving.

I know what I should be saying,
What my words should be portraying;
My mouth is moving
But sense I'm not making.

You wish I would be stopping,
Want me to give up on trying;
Only to you I'm not lying-
To be silent is denying.


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My prompt is #3
· 10-05-05 3:37pm
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Re: My prompt is #3 · 10-05-05 7:43pm
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