Hello, I’m Kim.
I have always written poetry, long before I found books of the wonderful stuff. I had never shared any of it before I set up this blog back in 2016.
Here you will find my poems and other things I feel the need to share with you (but mostly my poems). As the tag line says it’s “mostly poetry”.
And, yes, my husband sells cheese. Sometimes I help…….
You can find my Cheeseseller at http://thecheeseagent.weebly.com/ .
The Cheesesellers Wife 
Hello and thank you for your follow it is like a warm smile from a stranger. I love poetry too and I find it easier to write than prose! I look forward to reading your blog too. xxx
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My husband works as an IT director and has said similar things to me about his job. Some jobs are completely thankless!
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Hello! Thank you for the follow. My day job includes some elements of project management, too, so I can relate to what you said. And, I love cheese :D
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Enjoyed your work. Thanks for stopping by.
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I thank you for your kind welcome! Out of respect, I will not inflict the Monty Python bit on you!
Ha!
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…ooo…go on…..
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Something about “Cheesy comestibles!”
Certainly you’ve seen this: https://youtu.be/B3KBuQHHKx0
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Duh! Yes of course! My brain is obviously pining for the fjords……
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Ah, yes. The Norwegian Blue.
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I used to share a flat with an African Green, named Zaphod. The bird ate Kentucky Fried Chicken and drank Lager. Sang when drunk, too, I kid you not!
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Now, that’s a story!!
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Hi – thanks for stopping by my blog and liking a post or two. Keep on blogging😊
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Hi, nice to meet you. I found your blog through Jason at OM. I wanted to stop in to say hello can to check out your site. I look forward to reading your poetry and other tidbits. Have a great weekend! Steph
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Hii Steph,, Happy reading! Kim
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:)
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Hi and thanks for following Art and Tulips. I love what you’re doing with poetry (I have turned to art after being a writer for a long time). The name of your blog reminds me of Michael Ondaatje’s wonderful poem, “The Cinnamon Peeler’s Wife” – one of my favorites!
Greetings from San Diego!
Molly
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Hi Molly, I just hunted out the poem you mentioned and its great. I don’t smell of cheese, thank goodness but I am spending tomorrow selling it –at a Fete in a village on the site of a deserted Roman city.
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Stopping by to thank you for your recent like on Shift Key and peruse your wonderful site. My wife and I are in your cheese corner every morning – we normally have Dubliner or Farmer’s Cheese with toast (her) and matzos (me). She mango; me apricot. Back soon.
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I really love your poem. But you haven’t been visiting my cheese corner, I’m afraid. Hubby sells artisan cheese at country markets in Berkshire, England.
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Oops! Wrong cheese, wrong place… my cheesy heart is in the right place though. I trust your hubby’s cheese outshines most any I can find here in Arizona.
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Well, I have to say that of course our local and regional cheeses are the best! :)
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Thank you for visiting and following my site. I haven’t been on in months, so it’s nice to see it’s still attracting an occasional visitor. I look forward to delving into your work as well.
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Hi Kim, I found you at Jacqueline’s Spring Blog Party. I also write poetry and I look forward to reading more of yours.
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Hi Robin, hope you find something here you like, I will go look at yours too.
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Thanks, Kim!
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Hey, thanks for the ‘like’ on my recent post, and for the ‘follow’ which, having read one or two of your poems, I will reciprocate. I don’t reckon myself a poet though I have a go from time to time. This seems to be the only place I can leave a comment, right? At first I thought you were the wife of a cheeseseller I know pretty well, here in Wharfedale.
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No, My cheeseseller is in deepest darkest Berkshire.
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Your cheeseseller might like to check out our local one. His name is Jeremy:
http://www.wharfedalefinecheeses.com/
I know him quite well but not his wife so didn’t know whether she was ‘the cheeseseller’s wife’ till I visited your blog.
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How interesting. Does he sculpt the cheese as well?!
Dwight
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No, simply sells it…. :)
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Thank you for sharing your poetry and perspective! I hope it’s okay that I quoted a snippet in my last post on Winter Reading…https://bjornpaige.wordpress.com/2018/01/12/reading-weather/ I really do love reading your verse and seeing a window into your corner of the world!
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Thank you Bjorn, for the appreciation and for the quote!
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Thanks for the “follow” Kim. Back atcha! I’ll enjoy reading your posts.
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Hello from Portland, Oregon in the US. I just wanted to send a note of appreciation for your blog, and let you know that I wrote a bit about it in my own blog, specifically as a part of a series I’m calling a “Year of Poetry” that started with a little Yeatsian inspiration on a hike last summer and will wrap up when school ends in June. I’m a high school principal by trade (after teaching English for a dozen years) and I’m taking time to purposefully engage more with poetry this school year. The post is here: https://bjornpaige.wordpress.com/2020/05/01/the-cheesesellers-wife-kim-whysall-hammond/ Anyway, I hope I make up for any clunkiness of my own prose with the heartfelt appreciation for your verse. Thank you for sharing a window into your part of the world.
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Hi Bjorn! That’s a great piece and it is lovely to discover that you like my Guy Fawkes poem –I’ve often wondered whether that resonates with an American reader.
Thank you for including me in your year of poetry — it’s truly wonderful.
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Hi, Kim – I’m putting together a poetry advent calendar, and would love to have you as part of it. If you’re interested, all I need is a poem (vaguely seasonal), a bit of bio, and if you’re promoting anything at the moment (including cheese!) I’m delighted to add links, boost, etc. Please?
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That sounds fun!
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Excellent! If you’re up for it let me know. My email address is readingindevon@gmail.com
😊
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I’m musing on the subject……
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I know you can do it!
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poem sent by email just now…..
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🥳Thank you!
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Hi Kim!
Thought I’d just let you know: you are listed as one of the Blogstars✨
in my (latest) post “Better Days”
Best wishes from Ken🌞
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Thank you Ken for including me. I look forward to checking out the other blogs on your post- although I do know some of them.
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Found your site through John Looker’s and look forward to following you here. I already see some very well written poems and like you words have always been a ‘go to’ for me. Avid reading and writing have been forever my solace and joy.
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Hello Renee, I’m glad you’ve found my work and like it. What would you and I do without the written word? :)
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Very little, I’m afraid. Do take good care.
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Kim, found your site through Silver Birch Press where you had a lovely poem. I’m a big fan of Donna Haraway and her speculative fiction / SF / tentacular philosophy and it seems your speculative poetry maybe fits in that category. I’m poetry editor for Fungi magazine and was hoping you might have some mushroom poems (already published is fine, we attribute). Talking Gourds is the name of our Colorado poetry program. This is Art Goodtimes and my email is shroompa@gmail.com
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Hi Art. Great to hear from you. I am reading Sheldrake’s book about fungi at the moment and have been scribbling poem ideas. I’ll get back to you….
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