The Source
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Published: 11th April 2021
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This poem was placed 1st in the "A STRAND (1066)" contest sponsored by Brian Strand (Judged 4th March 2022)
The official source of The River Thames (UK) lies in a remote Gloucestershire meadow on the edge of the small village of Kemble in The Cotswolds.
'The Source Stone' to The North Sea (via The Thames) is approximately 232 miles
On the outer edge of Kemble
there’s a stone upon the green
where a spring becomes a trickle in a pond.
It seeps and then it flows
under bridges as a stream
towards the narrowboats of Lechlade and beyond.
There is peace and so much beauty
from The Isis* to The Thames
winding dreams around the spires along its course.
It flows on through The Tideway
'til its journey finally ends
at The North Sea many miles from its source.
* The Isis is an alternative name given to the River Thames from its source in the Cotswolds until it is joined by The Thame (a Thames tributary) at Dorchester in Oxfordshire - after which it is more generally referred to as The Thames.
Copyright © Gary Radice | Year Posted 2021
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