The World in a garden.
\nby cricketjeff on December 30, 2007.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved
\nThe whole world in miniature, crafted with skill,
\nDriven by steam and the force of his will.
\nA garden transformed, a theatre of life,
\nPlants are controlled by a train-loving wife.
\nA station constructed instead of a shed,
\nA bridge ‘cross the pond from designs in his head.
\nThe man that the council sent out to inspect
\nGasped with delight and the plans went unchecked.
\nA4 Pacific in standard 1 Gauge,
\nYears of his life and the star on this stage.
\nA farm scene his son built for years with his Dad;
\nThe two men together both filthy and glad.
\nHis daughter has painted each house they have built.
\nA boat on the river, is stranded in silt.
\nOutside the “Queens Arms”, the world’s put to rights,
\nThree men with their pint pots, ignoring the sights.
\nRetirement at sixty, now fifteen years past
\nAnd the end of the world is in prospect at last.
\nCars of the vintage, a neighbour has lent,
\nSnapped by the man that the local rag sent.
\nMen on the station, some children at school,
\nA man from the circus who’s dressed as a fool.
\nThe world in their garden, so perfect and neat
\nIs now, like their lives, very nearly complete.<\/p>\n
Author notes
\nAn A4 Pacific is a Steam Locomotive designed by Sir Nigel Gresley for the LNER
\nin Great Britain, for those who care about such things an A4 called Mallard
\nholds the World speed record for a Steam hauled Railway train.
\nLocal rag is common English usage for a local newspaper, and snapped means
\nphotographed if that slang isn’t universal. Don’t think there are any rhyming
\ngotcha’s with accent, except that for me checked and inspect rhyme, but I guess
\ncould merely be an assonance for some.
\nPOY<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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