Railway Child
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Published: 12th May 2021
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This poem was inspired by the film 'The Railway Children' and Henry Twells' poem 'Time's Paces'. It's a fictional account of one summer that I've set during the age of steam - a period in time that I was born too late for.
if the pathways and parklands
of my childhood could talk
they would speak of time crawling
before it could walk.
and when clouds hung like mobiles
on strings from the sky
I would run with my arms out
pretending to fly.
I would 'land' near the steep bank
that looked down on the track
to watch trains pass there daily
before then heading back.
in that long, lost, hot summer
when I never knew time
I would scan the horizon
through the haze on the line.
the dots that grew bigger
would soon thunder past
- they were moments I lived for
that flew by so fast.
but as clouds clouded over
that magic had gone
and as the last train rolled past me
I sensed time had moved on.
Copyright © Gary Radice | Year Posted 2021
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