The Old Railway Track
Nature has taken back
The old railway track
On the outskirts of Louth
Running north to south
Time has stood still
Allowing nature to refill
Filling her own hours
Sowing weeds and wild flowers
Crawling all over the route
With their sprawling over-shoots
A conspiracy of trees
Hide a secret waterfall
Only the call of water
Over-flowing
Gives itself away
In its rush to get going
To the sea without delay
Intermittent tunnels
Of tall towering trees
Create shadows of darkness
All along the way
And junctions at footpaths
Highlight the way
Clouds roam and reign the sky
Grey stains gathering rain
Stopping to drain
Before travelling once again
Cargoes of corn
Set in parcel rolls
Stretch across the rolling Wolds
Ready to be dispatched
And sold
Bean stalks are ready
For plucking
Once the farmer can get
The truck in
Through trenches of nettle
Barriers
Where once stood train
Carriers
It’s all change
For the seasonal landscape
Once a crop is harvested
The fields are rearranged
And all is changed
Jane Air is the poet blogger for thisislouth
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