Today (1st October 2020) is National Poetry Day, and we’re all encouraged to celebrate by sharing a poem with friends, family and neighbours. Both online and in the places we live and work. At Semaphore we love a poem, so we thought we’d get the ball rolling by sharing these lines we penned to plug…
Author: Emma Pyott
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