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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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Feb 19, 2006 at 4:40pm
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Prompt 18, #3: Failed in Love
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Failed in Love
                   (To a playboy)

The comet of
wishful thoughts
drops its tail
without seduction, warping
a delusion in flight:
one part of it in cosmos
the other part, an apparition,
when loneliness sinks
all the way down
into the empty room,
reminding you,
you loved
with the borrowed heart
and craved with the
borrowed mind
of a high scorer.

Now, when love
hits you between the eyes,
you whine and weep,
and your mind
shuts down to grasp
that, in this life,
you pay as you go.




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Prompt 18, #3: Failed in Love
· 02-19-06 4:40pm
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