Charleroi Poems - Poems about Charleroi

...(In 1870, the teenage poet Arthur Rimbaud ran away from his family home in northern France and wandered around the Belgian border as a vagabond. Here is a sonnet he wrote, translated into English......Read the rest...

...You are: Another forgotten obituary, I still: Shed tears at night, You are: So harshly missed, I still: Think you are at home, You are: Not in Charleroi anymore, I still: Write you often, ......Read the rest...

...The Coyle’s curtains are closed, Coal mines no longer employ, Might as well destroy, A once thriving steel town, The record books should take down, The history which lies on these streets, With......Read the rest...