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NOVEL-TEA from LissaT ^Pro 983 days old

It is a while since I last posted any verse. I seem to have been chatting about books and reading groups quite a lot recently both in real life and in ...

Life's Minor Irritations from LissaT ^Pro 1000 days old

On my diary blog today I have sung the praises of being alone and unhassled for a few hours, so I thought that my verse blog could house a few of my ...

Requiem from LissaT ^Pro 1005 days old

Today would have been my grandmother's 112th birthday, so I thought that I would put up another of her poems. Throughout her life she kept a series ...

Weather from LissaT ^Pro 1006 days old

Talking of weather, I came across this little ditty I wrote a few years ago when hot summers and cold winters were still simply that, and only a few ...

Wartime from LissaT ^Pro 1007 days old

Sixty-five years ago today soap was put on ration. My grandmother saw fit to commemorate this event in verse. February 1942 The World War has deprived ...

THE MENTOR from LissaT ^Pro 1010 days old

Tomorrow it is three months since my lovely Cally died aged 18. This was written when she was ten and newly the senior cat. The kitten is Albert. I haven't ...

CREATION / DESTRUCTION from LissaT ^Pro 1014 days old

[ ... ] added a verse:I thought to improve it. Then       one day       in a fit of temper       my brother       tore it up       and threw it away. One ...

SCHOOLDAYS from LissaT ^Pro 1017 days old

[ ... ] feeble verse could turn. There’s nothing left for me to do I fear But copy one of Milton’s least well known. I'm afraid that the rather ...

Definitely Doggerel from LissaT ^Pro 1018 days old

[ ... ] verse as you can get. It was, of course, written for that final refuge of truly terrible verse - the birthday card. And if you think this ...

THE SENSES from LissaT ^Pro 1032 days old

This was written by my late mother at a guess between 1957 and 1962 when we lived on the seafront, although both before and after the family homes from ...