I love words. I mean, I really do. I don't profess to being a great writer, but I am a great reader. Just thought it would be nice to share, I'll do a couple a week or whatever.
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Had this poem in my mind all week, poss cos of the weather, my location and the fact that I first heard back in a classroom at around this time of year.
Adlestrop - Edward Thomas
Yes, I remember Adlestrop—ffice
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The name, because one afternoon
Of heat the express train drew up there
Unwontedly. It was late June.
The steam hissed. Someone cleared his throat.
No one left and no one came
On that bare platform. What I saw
Was Adlestrop – only the name.
And willows, willow-herb, and grass,
And meadowsweet, and haydocks dry
No whit less still and lonely fair
Than the high cloudlets in the sky.
And for that minute a blackbird sang
Close by, and round him, mistier,
Farther and farther, all the birds
Of Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire.