Guest guest Posted May 10, 2001 Report Share Posted May 10, 2001 Very off topic, but any chance to get a poem out....! The geographical references may not mean much to those outside the UK: the (South) Downs is a line of low chalk hills (one long hill really) that runs along the south coast of England, about 20 miles from the coast; the (English) Channel makes us an island off Europe; Sussex is a county between London and the south coast; Liverpool is a maritime city on the North West coast of England (at the estuary of the river Mersey) - where I now live. Larksong Wild music delirious coloratura intoxicated with life small brown bird floats in the English blue on an updraft of joy On the Downs sound of childhood summer in Sussex wiry warm grass and shorn sheep faint tractor growls and on the hot air drifting scent of sweetness Idleness beech woods like beard on a bald man’s face thread of breeze from the Channel strokes the chalk dome and tickles bare skin toasting in cloudless sun Liverpool this lark lifts over the Mersey verge in my ox-blood brick terrace thick with screaming kids and revving cars I hear Sussex summer Arabella McIntyre-Brown 6 may 2001 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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