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Her poems feel like whispers from another era, delicately balancing between nature’s untamed beauty and the human heart’s quiet reflections.

Thank you for shedding light on Margaret McKenny’s nuanced works.

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A pleasure :-) Love your description. 💜

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Love the “wayward sweet peas”. Keen on Dick Whyte’s contribution too! 🙂

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Cheers Thomas! Yeah, that one is super lovely. It has such a lovely cadence.

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Henry Bellamann is probably more widely known as the author of "Kings Row,' a controversial novel published in 1940 exposing the hypocrisy of small-town life which was made into a movie and managed to foster the career of Ronald Reagan.

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Nice one Paul - yeah, it's a shame his poetry has been more or less forgotten. He wrote some bangers!

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Margaret McKenny’s "Ice" ... wow. Just wow. Everything necessary for a great story, distilled to essence.

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Agree 100% Kim - that one in particular is something special! 💜

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I didn't know this poet. Now I'm a fan

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Yay! :-) Love this energy 💜

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She’s a good one! Thanks for sharing.

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Pleasure Man of Aran! Thanks for reading and commenting. Really appreciate it.

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Educational, enlightening, poetically engaging!

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Cheers Jonathan. That is possibly the nicest description of Forgotten Poets I have received. 💜

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