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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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Jun 20, 2006 at 8:39pm
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Prompt 29: After the Hurricane
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After the Hurricane

Rumbles interrupt
the heat, thoughts, pain of terror,
and the ocean's speech.

The hunger of dust,
after hurricane passes,
feeds on the tailwinds.

"Take down the shutters!"
My shadow goes before me;
I go with the flow.

Behind opened blinds,
I ponder on elements:
rain revives or rusts;

cold kills and preserves.
Deep within the silent center,
my blood is dripping.

I scan the rubble
and soar with enlightenment
in my wind-scorned house.

The great compassion
isn't an anticipation;
here I am, in it.



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