the age of the train (part three)

the final part of my rail-inspired trilogy, bringing me back to the station from hell as a potential point of inspiration (following the train of thought that bad inspiration is better than no inspiration at all).

Write On Track

looking back
to years ago
when writing was such pleasure then
brings me write back
to what i know
(and try to find my pen again)

just something swift
and off the cuff
to open the floodgates once more
a welcome lift
(more than enough)
to bring the verses to my door

an introduction -
nothing greater -
i feel the rhyme come flooding back
East Croydon station
(my inspiration)
brings me home and write on track


November 1998

i can't remember if i wrote this as a direct result of increasing my poetry output - becoming the gateway to a whole new productive era - or something that i wrote much later as an afterthought. in fact checking the dates on my database (tech-geek meets poetry, it's a wonder i have any friends) i'm not at all sure that they are in any way correct. I suppose it doesn't really matter and can wait until the 2069 hardback collected edition to celebrate the 100th birthday of the modern-era's most influential poet...