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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 #1100112 added October 25, 2025 at 1:49pm
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About an Old Song...
Prompt:
Let this song inspire your entry today: You can listen or read the lyrics, what every works best for you.
"Still Crazy After All These Years"
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I do remember that song. Truth is, at first, I only recalled the refrain part of it. I probably didn't listen to the whole thing when that song was all over the place, anyway.
And that poor guy in the song! I think he should register to WdC and start writing something or begin reading a thing or two. He seems to be wasting away and is very unhappy about it; although in a way, he denies it. I mean, he possesses a distinct intellectual loneliness, wouldn't you say?
As such, instead of with company and friends, his conversations are internal. I think he might just be a romantic skeptic, too, since his once-upon-a-time, young love is masking his profound immaturity. Sentimentality or narcissism, can you tell which?
On the plus side, since I don't want to be too cruel to him, his defining characteristic is his self-awareness. He weaves it as a thin, flimsy layer of self-deprecation, however. He says, “I’m not the kind of man who likes to boast.” Then, he immediately follows it by detailing his achievements. He tells of his stability and wisdom gained from years of disappointment. Maybe only a subtle boast rooted in truth...but, still...
Yet, the song isn't successful for this self-awareness of him. It is successful because of his skepticism touched by his coming across an old love, by chance. An old love that might still hurt him, internally, maybe? Sticking in that "old love" idea might be the fan-getter, this song needed, no matter how dreary the original theme was. I guess, to be fair, in addition to this old-love image, the music and who the singer is (Yay, Paul Simon!) have helped the song become popular, as well.
So, it seems to me, in essence, the character in the song is a craftsman who built a fortress against pain, for himself. Yet, no matter how strong a fortress is, isn't it true that the most dangerous enemy always hides inside that fortress's walls? 
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