It is a lovely poem Arthur and I hope you give it to your granddaughter when
she gets older. bw Sally J
>From: Arthur Seeley <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Choosing a gift for a grand daughter( rewrite)
>Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 15:34:36 -0000
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>Offered originally as piece of trite wordplay, it received so many kind
>remarks I have worked a little harder at it.
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>Choosing a gift for a grand daughter
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>She has this thing about pink,
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>it's more of a yen than a thing,
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>and yet more of a yearning than a yen,
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>certainly it is an overwhelming desire,
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>one might say, an all-consuming hunger,
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>perhaps even a magnificent obsession.
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>If pink did not exist she would invent it,
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>she would discover it, seek it out,
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>find it, mine it,
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>harvest it, hunt it to the ends of the earth,
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>delve for it in the deepest places,
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>dare blizzard and tempest,
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>earthquake and hurricane for it,
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>just for a jar of it, a sample of it,
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>a spoonful, a soupcon, a smidgen, a smear of it.
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>If pink was running for president she would vote for it.
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>If pink was a prisoner held in durance vile
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>she would dare a squadron of dragons to free it.
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>If pink were a planet she'd send spaceships to it.
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>If it were a religion she would convert to it, raise altars to it.
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>Each night she sighs and sinks
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>deep beneath a pink duvet and drifts
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>through petalled dreams of Pinkdom.
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>She wears pink, layer upon rosy layer of it,
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>walks around glowing like a raked fire,
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>or a smacked arse, like a carnation or a freshly boiled crab.
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>She changes light like a glass of vin rose,
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>like a dawn's beginning,
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>or a summer evening melting into night.
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>She shines like the inside of a pomegranate
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>or the blush of a bitten fig.
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>She is quintessentially pink,
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>pink to the very core of her,
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>from tiny pink toe to the ribbon that binds her hair,
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>tip to glowing pink tip of her fingers.
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>This year, come Christmas, if its pink, its in.
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