Bus to Town
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By catherine poarch
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All the children in the puddles.
All the shining of the leaves.
All the cups stacked up and waiting.
All the coppers, all the thieves.
All the lights up at the Cricket,
Metal giants, one and all.
All the pigeons at the bakers.
All the apples on the stall.
All the smokers on the pavement.
All the bikes on Pig Sty Hill.
All the raindrops in the gutter
and the coffees in the till.
All the trains across the Arches,
disappearing out of sight.
All the sleepers in the doorways,
bagged and hidden since last night.
All the traffic round the Centre.
All the flapping of the coats.
All the padlocks on the Pero
and the stillness of the boats.
All the people by the dockside,
all the footpaths, all the ways.
If you found me, would you love me,
all the ordinary days?
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I love the snappy rhythm!
I love the snappy rhythm!
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This ambitious
poem with it's hypnotic repetition is carried off with elan and therefore is our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day. Why not share or retweet if you like it too?
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Hi Catherine, loved this poem
Hi Catherine, loved this poem very much as there's so much I can relate to having lived in Bristol a good part of my young life. Especially loved those lines:-
All the bikes on Pig Sty Hill. And
All the people by the dockside, And
the stillness of the boats.
All the pigeons at the bakers.
All the apples on the stall, conjured up Bristol market just off corn street.
Deliciously memorable to me to read and very much enjoyed.
Thank you for sharing.
Jenny.
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Trips along beautifully
Trips along beautifully Catherine.
Looks like an AEC Regent Mk.III or thereabouts. (Strange subversive surfaces)
Parson Thru
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Mirrors and conveys motion
Mirrors and conveys motion well... quite musical in its own way... Pretty final lines too, like a lyric... enjoyed, well done on the pick :)
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It's so hard to maintain
It's so hard to maintain rhythm like that, and it's so well done here. Interesting what you say about the last line, but it works well as it is.
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Cute piece,reads like a song, very nice.
The bus is an AEC engined RT class circa 1954 painted in London Transport "Greenline" livery. Looks like it's a renovated vehicle or a transport museum piece.
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I can be such a Nerd sometimes, Ewan!
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Western_National_bus_353_(FTT_704),_2012_Bristol_Vintage_Bus_Group_open_day.jpg
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This is great! I really
This is great! I really enjoyed reading it and wished I'd thought of it myself. We don't appreciate how many interesting things there are around us to see, even on an ordinary day.
Turlough
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