11-18-2011, 04:57 AM
I had no idea who William Marsland was and as I'm still fairly new I thought you were posting a poem by some celebrated poet for critical analysis.
Not that it now makes any difference knowing that it is you, the celebrated 'billy' -
This is lovely...I have a special fondness for harvest mice since I was bought 'The Inquisitive Harvest Mouse' when I first learned how to read (not that that is of any interest to you)
long yellow day walks - 'you'm a poet, ar kid' - slipped into Black Country dialect there. (I'm glad you resisted the urge to get 'stalk' on the end of the line to make an end stopped rhyme with 'walks)
Not that it now makes any difference knowing that it is you, the celebrated 'billy' -
This is lovely...I have a special fondness for harvest mice since I was bought 'The Inquisitive Harvest Mouse' when I first learned how to read (not that that is of any interest to you)
long yellow day walks - 'you'm a poet, ar kid' - slipped into Black Country dialect there. (I'm glad you resisted the urge to get 'stalk' on the end of the line to make an end stopped rhyme with 'walks)