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Having been immersed in memoir writing for many months, I decided to write a small poem every day for a year to keep my poetic hand in. I've posted them to Instagram and facebook as written – where, to my amazement, people love them – but on this blog they are sometimes subject to later rewriting.
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Sunday, 4 June 2023

The ads on Instagram ...


The ads on Instagram keep offering advice

as to what clothes women over 50 should wear.


I think, by 50, a woman must surely have gained 

not the courage (that too) so much as the wisdom


to wear any damn thing she likes

so long as it pleases – delights – her.


If the young are disapproving, strait-laced,

one can only hope they may yet grow out of it.



Two for the price of one today! I couldn't resist a little rant 

about this pathetic nonsense.

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