Sharon Olds, "35/10", Jane Betz, "21/62", Rudyard Kipling, "My Rival"

[med_cat]

Sharon Olds

35/10Brushing out my daughter's dark

Comments

[duathir]

A fine selection; thank you.

[med_cat]

My pleasure :)

[elenbarathi]

LOL, my daughter was 17 when I was 49. I keep meaning to write a sequel: My Rival (five years later):

"And that's because I'm fifty-four,
And She is twenty-two."

[med_cat]

You should! You write good poems :)

And I should thank you; it is because of your mention of it that I looked up Kipling's "My Rival".

;)

[elenbarathi]

Thanks! I hope I'll write some this year; I've missed it.

LOL, Kipling is such a character - My Rival goes with his Simla stories in Under The Deodars, Indian Tales and Plain Tales From The Hills.

[med_cat]

Best of luck with versifying, then :)

I see re: Kipling's tales; I'll have to read the stories you mention; thanks for the links!