Second-hand is restyled pre-loved
Second-hand gives way to Charity Shops
Pre-loved is the new height of fashion
Pre-loved is pre-valued…
To the ardent de-clutterer
The professional house-clearer
Disposer of parents’ schmutter
Second-hand is reborn pre-loved
Where once such clearance
Activities gleaned a pittance
High Street donation is now the way
Second-hand gives way to Charity Shops
But for those prepared to make the effort
The internet offers a third commercial vision
And Charity Shops are mined for Vintage
Pre-loved is the new height of fashion
Is a lover to be devalued
Because they have been
In previous relationships?
Pre-loved is pre-valued…
© Andrew Wilson, 2026
Over at dVerse Poets Pub, merrildsmith in Meeting the Bar: Critique and Craft, invites us to write a Cascade poem –
You will use each line from your first stanza in subsequent stanzas. For example, if your first stanza is three lines, your will have four stanzas. The first line of your first stanza becomes the last line of the second stanza. The second line of the first stanza becomes the last line of your second stanza, and so on.
This poem is also written for the Keighley Library [IRL] Group whose prompt for this month is Pre-loved…