TOTALLY OPTIONAL PROMPTS
suggests a reaction to a quote. Here's mine from Rudyard Kipling.
Personal nostalgia to the fore today. The photograph depicts the closure of a country rail-link. I caught the train every day from Alton
The photo was taken on the day of the closure (I think.)
OFF THE RAILS.
THEY shut the road through the woods
Seventy years ago.
Weather and rain have undone it again,
And now you would never know
There was once a road through the woods
Before they planted the trees.
Seventy years ago.
Weather and rain have undone it again,
And now you would never know
There was once a road through the woods
Before they planted the trees.
Rudyard Kipling.
They shut the rail-link to town,
When the great trucks came to the fore.
Now we define
A half-hidden line,
Where bright rails ran before.
Yet Nature is kind and generous;
A green path runs between
Over-arching branches
To mark where the trains have been.
But, if I were Rudyard Kipling,
I would very likely say
That the mournful sound of a dying train
Is heard to this very day.
Brenda Bryant (me)
9 comments:
that is poignant and well done.
Great shot of the train. One of these days I'll actually ride on one.
Really fine integrating of Kipling´s poem with your own take. I especially liked how you wove in the reference to Kipling in your version as well as the sense of healing that comes from changed nature, changed history. I´m working on a similar poem prompt with a poem by Neruda but haven´t posted it yet. Maybe now . . .
Oh, I love your little PS at the end of Rudyard's poem. So delightful! Like you always are!
Very beautiful picture.
Memories are our history on earth.
They are precious and when someone ruin these memories is like we lost something of our lives.
This train still live in your memories and it will never die.
perfect choice for the letter N. Nostalgia very original.
That was a lovely post. I loved steam trains. It is sad that they closed all those railway lines. Bet they wish they hadn't now with all the traffic on our roads.
Oh to have the gift of hindsight!
I too loved the chuk chuk trains, however dirty and clumsy they were..!!! Nice poem down the memory lane.
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