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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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Since my old blog "Everyday Canvas " became overfilled, here's a new one. This new blog item will continue answering prompts, the same as the old one.
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February 12, 2026 at 1:45pm February 12, 2026 at 1:45pm
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Prompt: What fictional character would you choose for your Valentine?
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Wow! I can't even choose! I think I'll have something like an army of them. Well, why not? In some places, men used to have harems, didn't they? I bet, today, at least some men still dream of that...
So, I'll try to go by something age-related, here. My first valentine could have been Jack, the one who climbed the beanstalk. As a kid, I was in awe of high climbers. But Jack had to compete with Tom Sawyer, at a later time. I especially liked Tom's kindness toward Huckleberry Finn. Now, Huckleberry is a character all by himself, and possibly someone, a certain one of my dearest cousins would go for , considering her choices of the feisty men with inner struggles.
Let's go a few years forward. In my teens and late teens I was mesmerized by Dostoyevsky. So there was Prince Myshkin, my favorite of all time, the Idiot. I think, freaked by my adoration for the Idiot, someone out there or up in heaven must have taken a pity on me because my husband was not an idiot, but he was just as soft and caring. As was George Emerson in “A Room with a View” by E.M. Forster. There is a pureness in George. He is true to himself and doesn't fool around to believe it is love.
Yet, to this day, that Dostoyevsky's Idiot takes the front row and first and foremost admired male leading character for me; however, there are many others in the lineup. Let me just mention a few of them by name. Luke Skywalker, Sam Spade, Arsène Lupin, Dr. Leonard McCoy ( Star Trek), the Fool in King Lear, Kilgore Trout (who I think represents Kurt Vonnegut's psyche) and several more.
Okay, now that I've named names that I could barely recall due to my flailing old-age brain, I think I'll still attend Cinderella's Ball with the Idiot. See ya!
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