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A poem in an instant...
Take this warm blanket.
It was fun to make
from odd balls of wool.
I unravelled some old jumpers,
washed the yarn
to get the wrinkles out.
I looped the wool,
pulled it through.
Gift aid is one of the runners-up in the 2018 Poetry on Loan poetry competition. Poets were asked to submit poems up to 20 lines in length on the theme Take this...
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Poetry on Loan promotes contemporary poetry through public libraries in the West Midlands
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