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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!
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#1057624 added October 18, 2023 at 12:06pm
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Dark Shadows
Prompt: Lara Parker, Angelique, The Witch From The Original Dark Shadows has died. I am saddened by this news. Write about Dark Shadows for your Blog Entry today.

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This prompt caught me unawares and I smiled. I really don't know who Lara Parker, Angelique is, but I'm sorry she has passed away.

As to Dark Shadows, that show and I go far back to its initial showing on Channel 7 ABC on the NY TVs during the late 1960s or was it the early 1970s, I can't exactly tell. I started watching it every day and I liked it quite a bit, then. In the beginning it was like every other TV Soap, and those who watched it, me included, thought it was about regular people. But after about six months or so, it turned dark, and somewhat suddenly. And Barnabas became the talk of the town and I felt for him because he was unlucky in the beginning and had turned so horrific later. The show was a true horror and melodrama intertwined. When, for me, it lost its footing for not having a good-enough plot, I stopped watching it and the show was taken off the air, soon after that.

Many years later, I heard it was back on and had been made into a film, too. Those who watch it say that besides the gothic horror and the supernatural, the show's serialized storytelling also includes time travel. I don't watch TV regularly anymore and I haven't for years now. But I do remember the first year of the introduction of "Dark Shadows," which has probably become a landmark in TV history.


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