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Steve
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Number of posts: 1255
Points: 1573
Registration date: 2009-03-23
 | | Subject: October Picture challenge 2010 Sun Oct 03, 2010 7:14 pm | |
| Here's one to ponder, a bridge to nowhere. 
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Steve
www.noaddress.co.uk
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Val
Number of posts: 1464
Age: 69
Location: Devon
Points: 1386
Registration date: 2008-10-22
| | Subject: Re: October Picture challenge 2010 Sun Oct 03, 2010 9:42 pm | |
| A railway line, perhaps it was,
Or, did a stream once flow.
The former Beeching closed because.......
Maybe the stream below,
Dried up in one bad yearly drought?
More likely, diverted away.
I know there is some doubt!
The truth I can not say!:   _________________  Regards Val |
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Steve
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Number of posts: 1255
Points: 1573
Registration date: 2009-03-23
| | Subject: Re: October Picture challenge 2010 Sun Oct 03, 2010 11:19 pm | |
| I liked that Val, a very thoughtful poem. Hey your back in the poetry club  Where have you been ?  A wide canal used to flow Down to the Severn River Under this bridge, far below Canal boats would deliver In a time now lost Far away At such cost A motorway Swan and duck Cast aside Oh’ what luck The canal died A wide canal used to flow Down to the Severn River Cars and Lorries all to show Wind blown grasses all a quiver.
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Steve
www.noaddress.co.uk
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Val
Number of posts: 1464
Age: 69
Location: Devon
Points: 1386
Registration date: 2008-10-22
| | Subject: Re: October Picture challenge 2010 Mon Oct 04, 2010 10:29 am | |
| Not really back into poetry, Steve, thank you, but that photo sort of jogged my inspiration. I wrote it very quickly. So, it was a canal bridge then.  _________________ Regards Val |
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crushed rose
Number of posts: 1282
Points: 1506
Registration date: 2009-08-29
| | Subject: Re: October Picture challenge 2010 Thu Oct 21, 2010 9:20 pm | |
| Today this bridge stands lost
Yet a hundred years ago
Barges plied their trade
Underneath it, to and fro
Coal was taken to the wharf
And onward to each mill
Woollen cloth sent to the river
The old canal was never still
Then roads were built and widened
Lorries came into play
The canal became disused
Then blocked off for a motorway
The bridge still stands undamaged
Monument to life at a slower pace
Across the field the sound intrudes
Of modern times that rush and race
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Eunice Perkins
Number of posts: 2668
Location: New Zealand
Points: 2329
Registration date: 2008-11-06
| | Subject: Re: October Picture challenge 2010 Fri Oct 22, 2010 10:19 am | |
| I haven't been around as much lately, but thought I had better make some effort. A poor attempt alongside your own and Rose's.
Across a green, grassy field
a bridge stands now neglected,
A testamony to times long past
Now standing unaffected.
Weeds and trees grow up around
Disguising crumbling mortar.
They built it many years ago,
A span 'cross running water. |
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Doreen Hampshire
Number of posts: 2569
Age: 71
Location: HULL England
Points: 2394
Registration date: 2008-10-22
| | Subject: The bridge with no friends Fri Oct 22, 2010 7:51 pm | |
| Oh dear, oh dear
My sat nav's gone mad
It sent me this way
which was just too bad
This bridge no more
there is nowhere to go
Still in one piece
But oh, so slow
Not even a sheep
to greet me now
Iknow at one time
there was a fiield of cows
Well I'm really lost
No friends around
if I stay here
Do you think I'll be found? _________________   |
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Steve
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Number of posts: 1255
Points: 1573
Registration date: 2009-03-23
| | Subject: Re: October Picture challenge 2010 Fri Oct 22, 2010 8:01 pm | |
| Yay three late entries, and very nice too. I was wondering, do you think the best poem should choose the picture and winner for the following month? Steve delegating lazily Riggs. If not I can do it, I just thought someone may have more interesting pictures
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crushed rose
Number of posts: 1282
Points: 1506
Registration date: 2009-08-29
| | Subject: Re: October Picture challenge 2010 Fri Oct 22, 2010 8:54 pm | |
| I think that would be good !! |
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Doreen Hampshire
Number of posts: 2569
Age: 71
Location: HULL England
Points: 2394
Registration date: 2008-10-22
| | Subject: Re: October Picture challenge 2010 Sat Oct 23, 2010 11:25 am | |
| So do I _________________ |
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Val
Number of posts: 1464
Age: 69
Location: Devon
Points: 1386
Registration date: 2008-10-22
| | Subject: Re: October Picture challenge 2010 Tue Oct 26, 2010 3:43 pm | |
| Fine by me, a good idea, Steve.  _________________ Regards Val |
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Eunice Perkins
Number of posts: 2668
Location: New Zealand
Points: 2329
Registration date: 2008-11-06
| | Subject: Re: October Picture challenge 2010 Wed Oct 27, 2010 9:05 am | |
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Steve
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Number of posts: 1255
Points: 1573
Registration date: 2009-03-23
| | Subject: Re: October Picture challenge 2010 Mon Nov 01, 2010 10:01 pm | |
| I really liked all your witty poems about the bridge, thankyou. I'm going to ask Val to choose a picture for November, because it was nice to see her out of the cafe Don't worry Val you don't have to write one if you don't want to, just find a nice picture and choose the winner at the end of the month. Thanks. Steve.
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Steve
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Val
Number of posts: 1464
Age: 69
Location: Devon
Points: 1386
Registration date: 2008-10-22
| | Subject: Re: October Picture challenge 2010 Mon Nov 01, 2010 11:55 pm | |
| Gosh! Steve, thank you. I'll go look for a picture. _________________ Regards Val |
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