valerie Hartland Poems

I went to the market today
fruit is so cheap..yet such rich recollections
and all for just a £1 a bowl
I bought cherries, and strawberries
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If invited to read a poem be sure
Read, read, read again
Take in each line before reading more
and before you comment, have your say
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You're not that little girl I cared for anymore
not the child who didn't speak my language and didn't understand
grown and changed you call the law against me when I fail you
and miss the boundary line
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Some say I have changed
that I seem to understand
so much more than I did before
I don't think so
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Why is it that writing verse
Comes at such a price a cost?
For years we sit in the classrooms gloom
While over us the teachers loom
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You dumped me so very legally
firmly closed the door
sent an email
so formally
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