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International Women's Day
Well, today is as everyone should know International Women's Day and what better way to celebrate and commemorate this important international event than to look at Shakespeare's representation of women in his plays. For example the identity of "The Dark Lady" in his Sonnets sequence? For a number of centuries Shakespearean academics have pondered over the identity of two people who strongly influ...
Saturday 8th March 2025 10:28 am
Smouldering
I was at a loose end
Coiled up for action
Capable of anything
Any hot infraction
You fanned my flame
Got me into a fever
Never let me sit still
Pulling every lever
Combustion failed us
From sad mouldering
We barely rose above
A gentle smouldering
We tried to rekindle
Gave the fire a poke
Rubbed twigs together
Lit not coal but coke
...
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