A train window in my mind

Cherry

By Parson Thru

Mon, 10 Jul 2017
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9 comments
 

A train window in my mind

coasts above the low roofs of Holbeck

 

Printers, dye-works, warehouses

line the parallel canal and Aire

 

Whose surfaces reflect a sky

as grey as viaducts

 

Which curve their steel towards

the Heavy Woollen towns and The South

 

South of Dewsbury Road

Away from Vicar Lane and Briggate

 

Beyond the lonely row of shops

and phasing traffic-lights

 

Towards the squally Pennines, past the MPD

where locos stand as still as horses

 

All ghosts

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Comments

Submitted by Philip Sidney on

Wistful and familiar, I love the locos still as horses in particular.

Submitted by Parson Thru on

Thank you Philip Sydney. Very glad you like it.

Thank you for the cherries, Ed.

Parson Thru

Submitted by lenchenelf on

...enjoyed xx

 

Submitted by Parson Thru on

Thank you lechenelf. I'm really glad.

Parson Thru

Submitted by Parson Thru on

A little yellow bird just landed on my finger whilst I was reading this. Its little feet were warm. It gripped oh so gently. I shook it off because I didn't see what it was. Shame. I think it had something to tell me.

Parson Thru

Submitted by lenchenelf on

have aquired the bustle and gloss of the micro-brewery generation in residence, highrise law, finance and service industries blind the passenger on relection in stark vaults and towers of glass, but the sky and river still colour graphite in mind and memory, artists cluster in the old quarter, where blood would flow from the street abbatoir as red ink now from their brush. :) xx

Ghosts all, but the middleton railway still breathes in great white plumes of a Sunday afternoon :)

Cracking poem dear sir x

 

 

Submitted by Parson Thru on

Thank you lechenelf. Loiner? Everything changes. The scenes remain etched. I used to do van deliveries when I first moved there. You had to wait for new locomotives to be moved across the road at the Hunslet works.

Parson Thru

Submitted by lenchenelf on

..yes, still here and as a friends Dad used to say, Leeds will be nice when it's finished ;) x

 

 

Submitted by Parson Thru on

:)) I think I've heard that. The old string of beads.

Parson Thru