Train Ride
Mid-week train from Ashford Station
Childhood memories as I start
Jog then jolt as engine tugs me
Arrow-like to Kentish heart.
Chugging now past roofs of Kingsnorth
Wealden village, strange prickled fears
Uneasy easing into Hamstreet
Easing squealing through the gears.
Away again cross level crossings
Was that Warehorne on my right?
Why should Appledore’s seclusion
Give this traveller such a fright?
Another burst of diesel power
Spurts the wheeled worm into Rye
Even as my heart stops pounding
Hastings’ history flashes by.
Now St. Leonards, oh no, not Bexhill!
Worried forehead, clammy frown,
Awful dawning realisation
My ticket’s punched for London Town!
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