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Gayle, you reminded me of my childhood! My mother used to read a lot of poetry, and when I was little, I kept saying that as soon as I learned to read, I was going to read those poems too. I’d really set my mind on it in that very childish way. I can’t remember the poet now, but I do know they were love poems. Then my sister started reading them too, and I was so jealous because I wanted to be able to read them as well, haha. When I finally learned to read, one of the first things I did was pick up that poetry book, and I was so disappointed! These were the poems I’d been so excited to read all that time?! 😅

Oh no Pia 😩 that’s such a lovely and sad little tale.
My mum used to recite ‘Ode to a Mouse’ (which she told us was about a mouse getting run over by a combine harvester 😅) and ‘The Tyger’ to us at bedtime. I was desperate to own the same copies of the books she read from. For teen birthdays she bought me the latest copy of her Oxford poetry book and for Burns she gave me her beautiful copy. I always keep them near - I can see them right now. I hope I can instill even a quarter of the poetry love in my kids as my mum and granny did in me!!

Oh, dear Gayle, that’s wonderful! It really warmed my heart that you still have those books.💚 I hope your kids end up having the same kind of memories with poetry too.✨️

Me too. They are very modern kids though, so will see 😅