Moved to Cornwall 21 years ago.I am 67yrs old and the mother of three adult children, also grandmother to two beautiful little girls. I left school at the age of fifteen with no formal qualifications but have enjoyed writing verse since I was a child.
We know that you are here today,
Standing, arms entwined.
So in love and happy
Faces all unlined.
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In a village in a valley
Is the place where I was born.
Dear old Polesworth near to Tamworth
Where I greeted my first dawn.
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With a clip round the ear
And a caustic tongue,
Our Mam taught the difference
Between right and wrong.
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