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. Kiya's gift. I love it!
The Tenor at the Opera
Too much to let go,
prone to tears,
when music moves you
so far away,
as your senses wind
to unwind,
and the song drifts
note by note
into darkness.

The tenor bows,
then straightens up,
glancing at your face,
his momentous gaze
searching for signs,
if his flame
helped you to be more,
in this unobtrusive way.

His seduction
still steeping
inside
your trivial life,
you leap
to applaud
a dusky tale
written in invisible ink,
filtered through
vocal cords;
since,
sometimes
truth
can only be sung.




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