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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 #1099415 added October 16, 2025 at 11:20am
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Poe and Us
Prompt: Edgar Allan Poe's goal was to be a writer of poetry and short stories. Do you agree with his goal?
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It is his goal, isn't it! Whether I agree with it or not, it won't matter. Poe wrote only one novel, which must have freaked him out, so he might have opted to stick with shorter work. No offense, NaNo writers of this year, but I can certainly understand that, because I, too, was writing Nano novels at one time, up to a few years ago. Then, as I got far ahead in years, I tried sticking to short stories and poems. Now that I'm quite old and my eyes can't take too much strain, I'm into writing in my blog. So far so good, though, as I haven't missed a day...yet.
Then, unlike that of yours truly, Poe's work is extremely dramatic; "Quote the raven nevermore" and such. I always thought it was because of his emotional makeup. Surely, there is that, but there's also another factor, as I found out later. Poe’s father and mother were professional actors. Should any one of us in WdC had been raised by actors in a repertory company, I bet we'd end up writing more dramatically, too.
Poe wasn't only a writer of short stories and poetry, but also, a great literary critic of his time. We may not be great literary critics but we do write reviews here, don't we!
I suspect what connects us writers here in WdC to Poe is that Poe started to write poems first, sometime during his early youth. I bet most of us did that. I did that. My first poem, when I was seven was about the flower violet.  I bet Poe wouldn't approve. There was nothing dramatic about it.
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