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10/12/2025 for Forts and Castles Poetry Contest sponsored by Craig Cornish 

Meeting Place

Fair lady, so delicate and refined,
a single touch might sully your beauty,
and so, you have politely declined -
your security, my sacred duty.

Your exquisite, diaphanous skin, 
becomes impenetrable armor.
Yet, I feel somewhere beneath, within,
a playful, loving place, much warmer.

Shall I sally forth or softly retreat,  
where fortresses and castles meet?
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Date: 10/12/2025 2:38:00 PM
outstanding rhyme scheme and unique approach to the contest prompt. Well done, sir
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David Crandall
Date: 10/12/2025 7:11:00 PM
Thanks, Sara!
Date: 10/12/2025 10:18:00 AM
Enjoyed the rhyme David Best wishes Kevin
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David Crandall
Date: 10/12/2025 7:10:00 PM
Thanks, Kevin!
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