Icad 2016 - Batch 01

I'm home from 'vacation' and will start posting the cards I've made in batches of 5-at-a-time.

I'm not following prompts at all. Initially they looked interesting, but I soon decided to 'do my own thing' this year.

I found a discarded school poetry book which gave me a wealth of material to work with.

The first 10 cards are based on these poems and on poets whose works I like. Some poems have a significance beyond that for me personally.









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