The Inkwell

from inkdrop – poetry, places and events

Category: Transport

  • #Napowrimo #Writeclub Destination Reached – after a well thought out plan to get to point b from point a – out of the blocks you made your way – travelling by boat, plane or even by car – to a place you thought was really quite far… and upon your arrival from point a to…

  • Cobbles

    #napowrimo #writeclub Crafted from rock, hewn from the hills one after another they line the path – protecting the burdened pack-horse from getting stuck in the soil behind him bouncing up and down the local carts and horses experiencing the movement on every sharp edge and curve of the hillside’s children

  • #Writeclub #writeclub #broken It is broken lay forlorn by a post after endless use or misuse It used to fly down the street with its owner free not shackled like now Repairs required by the menders to bring it back to racing standard new chain, new handlebars, new wheels Its remaining parts are all bent…

  • #fowc #Transit There it goes, heading down the road at regulation speed after being packed with breakfast goodies galore night time lit up by the tungsten bulbs soon they’ll be at their destination – where the fork-lift is waiting patiently then, they’ll be stacked up on the shelves for the shoppers to buy

  • #Iminfiction She’s sat on her own waiting. Can’t go off on herself so she’s waiting want’s to go travelling in the northern sunshine off to the sandy beach where everythings sublime but while her owners packing her backpack she’s sat at the start line – waiting.

  • #fowc #shipment Something is on its way across the sea held in giant containers it’s items created on one side of the water ported to the other side by some very big ships might be chairs or perhaps pears each container contains something different note that – despite being held together on the boat tomorrow…

  • #Promptuarium #Travel Under the bus station wails of an ancestor could be heard crackling away as buses left for their destination spirits of old tramways coming to life happy at the forthcoming news their great-great grandsons network was about to be extended.

  • Thinking of Breakfast

    #writeclub #breakfast Up all night travelling in their magnificent chariot making their way to their destination Thinking of breakfast Driving to Penzance from John – o – Groats looking to fill the stomachs and throats Thinking of breakfast Dropping off cargo, at a rendezvous point all the time thinking, of a roasted lamb joint or…

  • Car

    #writeclub #adventure A car is not an Adventure though it could just get you there saving you the shoe leather or even the bus fare It gets you there from A to B using the various road and track Travelling down endless steel railed paths and buckets of flattened tarmac It’d be great – if…

  • Waiting

    #MLMM She’s Waiting She’s Waiting by the platform She’s Waiting for a Train She’s Waiting for the train She’s Waiting for a particular train but for now – She’s Waiting She’s waiting to get to a place on the coast a place as a child she enjoyed the most a place that was way off…