[A poem by Wendy Cope (born 1945)] On Waterloo Bridge, where we said our goodbyes, The weather conditions bring tears to my eyes. I wipe them away with a black woolly glove And try not to notice I've fallen in love. On Waterloo Bridge I am trying to think: This is nothing. You're high on the charm…

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The 50 Images Project - Greenwich Foot Tunnel

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The 50 Images Project - Greenwich Foot Tunnel

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[Un poème de Raymond Queneau (1903-1976)] Un jour on démolira ces beaux immeubles si modernes on en cassera les carreaux de plexiglas ou d'ultravitre on démontera les fourneaux construits à polytechnique on sectionnera les antennes collectives de télévision on dévissera les ascenseurs on anéantira l…

2 years ago / 349 visits / 2 comments / 1 person likes

[A poem by Sylvia Plath (1932 - 1963)] This is the light of the mind, cold and planetary The trees of the mind are black. The light is blue. The grasses unload their griefs on my feet as if I were God Prickling my ankles and murmuring of their humility Fumy, spiritous mists inhabit this place Separa…

3 years ago / 148 visits

[Un poème de Rudyard Kipling (1865 -1936)] (Prehistoric) Twenty bridges from Tower to Kew - (Twenty bridges or twenty-two) - Wanted to know what the River knew, For they were young, and the Thames was old And this is the tale that River told:-- "I walk my beat before London Town, Five hours up and…

6 years ago / 235 visits

[Superbe poème de John Masefield (1878-967) qui devint poète lauréat, ou 'poète lauré', en 1930. I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky, And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by, And the wheel's kick and the wind's song and the white sail's shaking, And a gr…

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