Old Town Past
...OLD TOWN PAST
Gone: the Market where cows sheep and pigs brought telling perceptions
The images, noises and smells of the farms to the town
The tweeded farmers with leathery limbs and faces
And...
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Categories:
tweeded, history,
Form: Rhyme
Albert's Avengers
...Albert G Walpole, proud legionnaire
Clerk to the council for all of his days
Lived with his mother in Hartington D'Arcy
Nice little end terrace, quite set in his ways
But one Sunday evening,...
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Categories:
tweeded, adventure, conflict, farewell, goodbye,
Form: Light Verse
View From the Bridge
...VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE
From the bridge, track the ghosts of line, goods yard, Old Town Station
Where we lingered and noted the numbers of each passing train
Web of steel and of steam entwined vil...
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Categories:
tweeded, nostalgia,
Form: Elegy
Old Town Elegy
...OLD TOWN ELEGY
The bridge still spans the road - with what design?
The rail that once crossed Ridgeway and vale to the sea
Erased and gone, with scarce residual sign
And barely more trace tha...
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Categories:
tweeded, nostalgia,
Form: Elegy