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Ghost Train
Ghost Train
This is the ghost train that won’t make the Border,
Bringing chaos and transport disorder
More cash for the rich, no help to the poor
Closed shops on the corner, all empty next door
Pulling up in Brum, the end of the line
Well over budget, stopped in time
No cotton grass or moorland boulder
No fast trains til we’re all a lot older
No student railcards o...
Monday 9th October 2023 2:10 pm
HS2 Is Not Coming Soon
I am sorry to announce,
but my long awaited
HS2 poem
has been branded
‘unachievable’,
and is at risk
of not coming out.
Successive
brutish reviews
say it won't deliver
soon, and
a poetic replan
should cut the
quatrains to haikus.
My sonnets
run obsolete,
villanelles
don’t complete,
and the limerick (below)
is the only...
Monday 14th August 2023 1:19 pm
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