Callow Hallow *Poetry
By Inlemay
@Inlemay (17712)
South Africa
August 24, 2016 5:43am CST
Well I just had to reciprocate to @MALUSE post on the Puerile Poetry because that lovely youthful school photo needed a friend.
I give to you my Callow Hallow:
It was a horrid night
when came in sight
a lovely lady
so light and bright
for this I write
for fear of fright!
*Entry for this week's Suddendeath Poetry Challenge by @Jessicalynnt Assignment: Write a poem using the following words: write, fright, sight, light, night
Photo is of me - I was nine years old.
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@owlwings (43897)
• Cambridge, England
24 Aug 16
Wow! Another photo of a remarkably confident-looking and personable young lady! I would say that she looks rather the opposite of callow and, judging by the comprehensive library behind her (I wish I could read the authors and titles of some of those books!), her education was far from fallow!
I never thought that striped blazers and ties suited girls, really. Somehow, they are OK for boys but not for girls. What were the colours?
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@owlwings (43897)
• Cambridge, England
25 Aug 16
@Inlemay Quite tasteful. In my mind, I had the light-coloured (narrow) stripe as gold and the darker coloured (wider) one as red or green. Just shows how much is left to the imagination with black-and-white photographs!
It reminds me of a story I heard once about a lady who took a (sepia) photo of her soldier son in to be coloured (as was often done in those days). The photographer asked what colour the boy's hair was and received the reply: "Just take his cap off and you'll see!".
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
24 Aug 16
lol, a surprise entry! Always love finding these later, lovely!!!
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@crazyhorseladycx (39503)
• United States
24 Aug 16
cute lil poem :) but not near's cute 's yerself when ya were 9. what a sweet pic!
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@ModernDayWriter (3318)
• New Delhi, India
24 Aug 16
You are still so young, marvelous 
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