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Welcome back to the Classic Corner challenges, nomoth! Good to see you getting your word groove on with the rhyming and U assonance. Good luck in the judging!

And keep in mind for future entries, per the comp guidelines:
"Write a new Poem honoring Hughes inspired by any one of his poems."

A few challenges back, we limited the inspiration poems to one per entry to help simplify the judging process.

Thanks Johnny for letting me know.  I just dove in without rereading the guidelines.

i decided to just add Skylarks as the inspiration though there is little similarity. Was hoping for a vague Hughes vibe.

thanks again

Oh my God Andrew.. ♥️
This is gorgeous...  I was distracted for a moment (pleasantly, very pleasantly so, thinking of you unbuttoning things) wink.. but I reeled it in, and just got lost in this ..

LOL thanks Jen. Flirting will get you everywherex

Beautiful entry, Andrew. Best of luck in the comp.

Thank you A. so much.

Your connections are so deep, you see the soul inhabiting things, so intimately linked. That is how your metaphors strike me. This morning, I took a walk to the store at dawn. I saw my cat and a while later, heard and then saw a woodpecker, banging on a wooden telephone pole and I thought, How is a woodpecker like a house cat? In a kind of Lewis Carroll idiom, and thought, they both preen their coats, amidst their instinctual hunt for food. Then I thought, the answer really ruins the question, which should just be left a question. So I also think your poems have beautiful question marks about them. lol I think that is what people sometimes don't see. Water seeks it's own level, my grandmother used to say, with a kind of wry edge. She was a character. Though we write differently of course, there is a sharing of depth, I believe.

Thank you again so much for your support Daniel.

and yes to all.

Ha. Old Ted and yourself fit as a hand in glove. Thematically and stylistically. Joy to read. Rob

Thanks so much Rob

This has the grandiose imagery of Ted Hughes and is as dynamic, also with that slight edge he was known for.  Great entry, I like it a lot :)

Thank you so much. so very appreciated.

This is definitely my cup of tea. Lovely.
Thank you for your gift.
🙏

Thank you so much.

sooooo....i have just read through at least 10 of your poems and all i can do is sit here and go "why the hell haven't i followed this person before now?"

i'll have to come back with something more than just awe when i've had time to digest.

I am sorry for being late in replying.

I get a little lost in replying and this was so lovely and encouraging to hear. Thank you so much.

Please take your time and I want to read  you a lot more. The little I have read has me bowled over.

So glad to have met you.

Those middle stanzas about the stars just songs for me. Maybe it’s because I have a thing for stars, but it is just....well, it sings. Well done.