for Gertrud Widmayer
I am a coal-truck
Carrying gold dust.
Someone threw some
Coal-dust upon
My gold-dust.
I am a coal-truck
In a gold mine.
Someone struck a coal vein
And piled me full in vain.
I am a coal-truck
Covered in subterranean dust.
Someone shovelled my soil
And found an ancient bone
All coiled.
I am a coal-truck
Waiting for the rain.
The sun is my rail
The night my shed.
I am a coal-truck
Rumbling all the way.
Wash me in the rain-storm
And fill me full of coke
Until I choke.
End of the poem
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- Felixstowe, or The Last of Her Order poem – John Betjeman poems | Poems and Poetry
- Владимир Британишский – Баня Быстрицкого
- Character Of The Happy Warrior by William Wordsworth
- Dog’s love by Vinko Kalinić
- Twelve Years by Paul Celan
- Ок Мельникова – Птицей
- The Editor’s Guests by Will McKendree Carleton
- Jerusalem Delivered – Book 02 – part 07 by Torquato Tasso
- A Case Of Murder by Vernon Scannell
- By Philemon by William Cowper
- Written In Germany On One Of The Coldest Days Of The Century by William Wordsworth
- Жан Расин – Андромаха
- I explain the silvered passing of a ship at night, by Stephen Crane
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