In Competition No. 3286, you were invited to submit a toe-curling Valentine poem to Harry, or to the love object of your choice.
Meghan and her frightful poems were the inspiration for this assignment but perhaps we should cut her some slack; as Carol Ann Duffy has said, love poetry is the hardest to write.
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