Crewe
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Crewe in Motion
Famous for Trains
Was Crewe of yesteryear
Royal Scot, Duchess Class
Were all built here.
Famous Planes
Lancaster Bomber, through the war it flew,
Its mighty ‘Merlin’ engines
Built, at Rolls Royce, Crewe.
In modern day Crewe
Supermarkets, shops, galore
A great retail park
We couldn’t ask for more.
Visit lovely Queen’s Park
Its lake and trees, so sublime.
Visit the Lyceum
You’ll have a wonderful time.
Plans are in place
Soon going through.
We will have a
Brand New Crewe.
Naomi Potter
Brittannia at DuskThe sunlight melts from old Britannia's face;
she is at peace, a proud and stately queen.
No crude graffiti to corrupt her grace,
The sting of triumph's cost now clearly seen.
Long shadows casts she on the ground, and now
a darkness falls on names of faceless men.
She's deaf to those debates that went on; how
could they deny that she seemed smaller then?
She's found her place – her cold eyes stare away
to meet the gaze of figures carved in stone
that guard the town hall's doors. So ends this day
like all the others that before have gone.
With dignity, she steps free of her chains
into the night, and waits for light again.
FleamarketCrewe market on a wet, winter Wednesday
smells of hotdogs.
The air is caffeine-rich under dripping tilts,
where yesterdays 'shop 'til you drop' bargains
jostle souvenirs of Spanish holidays.
Embodied in ebony, the Masai warrior
hurls his broken spear into a rainforest of ragged umbrellas.
And his woman, carved from the heart of Africa,
the grain of famine and flood curved across breast and buttock,
stands naked and bewildered
amongst the piles of plastic.
20th September 2006
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