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Edna's Irish Proverb

When looking fondly
At your parents' wedding photo,
Be grateful if your mother is
The one wearing the dress.

About This Poem

Review Request Intensity: I appreciate moderate constructive criticism

Editing Stage: Editing - polished draft

About the Author

Region, Country: London, Culture Capital of the World

Favorite Poets: Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, Rupert Brooke, Chaucer, Shakespeare to name but a few. And VERY IMPORTANTLY: Erich Fried, a leftwing Austrian of Jewish ancestry who fled the Nazis and became a British citizen in 1949., And, other writers (non-poets mainly): Raymond Chandler, Irvine Welsh, Anthony Burgess, Graham Greene, Charles Bukowski, John le Carré, Anthony Horowitz, Mick Herron, Margaret Attwood, Edna O'Brian, Maeve Binchy., Writers who I find vastly over-rated: TS Eliot, Virgina Woolf, Sylvia Plath, Phil Larkin, E.A. Poe, A. Ginsburg, Longfellow, Gerald Manley Hopkins (actually I LOATHE Hopkins more than damson-dappled words can say).

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Lavender

Lavender

5 years 5 months ago

Proverb

Hello, Edna,
Your poetry is ingenious - and this one definitely makes me laugh!
Thank you!
L

Geezer

Geezer

5 years 5 months ago

What...

no pants suits? There are some women that I really don't want to see in a dress. Or men either, for that matter. Funny proverb though. ~ Geezer.
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Edna Sweetlove

Edna Sweetlove

5 years 5 months ago

"pants suits"???

Trouser suits are NOT a flattering look for many women. Think of Mrs Clinton! Probably why she lost THAT election!
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Gracy

Gracy

5 years 5 months ago

Hi Edna, definitely made me

Hi Edna, definitely made me laugh. Is it a true Irish proverb or did you make it up? I agree, Clinton with her pants suit probably worked against her. Never liked the woman, but I'd definitely vote for her instead Trump. We have experience in Argentina regarding dictatorships, Trump exuded populism and hard rhetoric, which people fell for. That's how Juan Peron won in Argentina, then became a dictator.
Enjoyed, Gracy

Edna Sweetlove

Edna Sweetlove

5 years ago

The concept of..

...H.Clinton in a "pants suit" (whatever that is) makes me puke. Mind you, out of one is no better.
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R

raj

5 years 4 months ago

Hi Edna

different but made me grin too...:)

be well..