Some of the sweetest poems...
...can be some of the shortest, simplest and most - dare I say it - poignant.
Here's an example of genuinely one of the first poems I every remember hearing, and remembering...
...can be some of the shortest, simplest and most - dare I say it - poignant.
Here's an example of genuinely one of the first poems I every remember hearing, and remembering...
Not an earth-moving opus, or epoch-defining moment, I concede, but funny and true to my young virgin poetic brain.
Another which really grabbed my with its sheer cleverness was this one.
It's amazing how when young people discover works that are genuinely clever and funny from before their time they can't help feeling somewhat envious and awed and proud to be experiencing them and realising that people liked having an intellectual laugh even as long ago as when our parents were young.
I wonder if my kids will ever be thinking that if they ever discover some of the things that tickled me, a few years from now.
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