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Hi my name is Ann. Welcome to my blog. This is a collection of poetry and short stories I have written over the years. I do not profess to be a writer. Only that I feel the need to write. When ever I write I always remember a few things that other writers have said about their own work. Edgar Allan Poe wrote, “THESE trifles are collected and republished chiefly with a view to their redemption from the many improvements to which they have been subjected while going at random “the rounds of the press.” I am naturally anxious that what I have written should circulate as I wrote it, if it circulate at all. In defence of my own taste, nevertheless, it is incumbent upon me to say that I think nothing in this volume of much value to the public, or very creditable to myself. Events not to be controlled have prevented me from making, at any time, any serious effort in what, under happier circumstances, would have been the field of my choice. With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence; they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.” Another by one of my favorite novelists, Nora Roberts says, “Be yourself. Be true to that, to your heart. Patience. See what happens if you step back instead of bounding forward.” She also says, “You can’t edit a blank page”