You are one of the few writers on this site who has the power to transport your reader to the times and the places you describe and actually live them with you.

Well done on this.

So glad this is nominated.
First loves never leave us. Never.

I adore this

So glad to see this nominated. All the very best

Knowing your affinity for dandelions, I find the theme of the "short-lived" in this poem to be well suiting. Sometimes in life, there are many things that are born into a cycle of transition - whether it's a love that touches your soul so deeply it changes the very essence of who you are as a person or a common dandelion, we come quickly to the understanding not to question it for the sake of our sanity.