London in verse - Ric

Question of the week: Do you have a favourite London poem or nursery rhyme?

""N.W.2 : Spring"

The poets never lied when they praised
Spring in England.
Even in this neat suburb
You can feel there's something to
their pastorals.
Something gentle, broadly nostalgic, is stirring On the well-aired pavements.
Indrawn brick
Sighs, and you notice the sudden sharpness Of things growing.
The sun lightens
The significance of what the houses
Are steeped in,
brightens out
Their winter brooding.
Early May
Touches also the cold diasporas
That England hardly mentions.

A.C.Jacobs (1927-1994)"

- Ric

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