NaPoWriMo Day 26. Today’s poem is called Let me sit by the canal side.
I am quite fond of a nice canal walk & we have many canals in Birmingham as a result of our industrial heritage. I thought I’d make it extra difficult for myself by writing in rhyming couplets which I have to say is one of the hardest pieces of writing I’ve ever done. Hopefully the result is not too disastrous
Let me sit by the canal side
Let me sit by the canal side
where I can watch the barges glide
through deep and narrow waterways
cut by men in bygone days.
In a time when things were made
and industry the only trade
in a city where skies grew red at night
from fiery furnaces glowing bright
barges pulled by horses strong
carried their loads all day long.
Such days are gone but the canal it stays
a sleeping monument to glory days.
Now a place of quiet pleasure
its only industry is leisure.
