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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 #1103967 added December 19, 2025 at 12:29pm Restrictions: None
The Girl Can’t Help Herself
Prompt:
Begin your entry with---The girl can't help herself.
It's your blog, have fun writing a short story or a poem or just a rant.
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The Girl Can’t Help Herself
The girl can’t help herself,
although she knows nostalgia lies
she hoards old summers like contraband
and ticket stubs, cassettes, letters of his
the smell of rain on her borrowed jacket
and then, she rants at time for moving on
without her, for sanding down the edges
of faces she loved, and especially one,
and for turning payphones into fossils
and promises into museum glass
since her every memory argues back, loud,
unfinished, aching to be right here, and still,
she shouts his name like truth, her truth
no artificial intelligence can understand
because the girl can't help herself.
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