Pete's Eltham (Happy and Glorious)

By Appointment
R.W.R.R.
Vagniacae?
Calgary
Court Yard
The Flying Standard
Locked Out
There's always the Sun
Monarch
Back to the Present
One Queue
St. Johns
Yemmerawanyea
Eltham Pools
E.T.S.C.
Palace Periphery
Snow
Everything Within
Saint Saviours
Spring Equinox
Will Crooks Gardens
Early Start
Foxhole Road
Milestone
Tram
IDT
Oranges.....
Waiting Room
Eltham Station
Well Hall Bus Station
Chunnel Link
Mirror Mirror.....
Lovelace Green
Deansfield School
Severndroog
Eltham Park North
Most Glorious Majesty
Falconwood
Sweet Meadow
Crematorium
The Avery Hill Postman
Signposts
Green Lane
Richard Jefferies
....Lemons
Human Nature
Copycat
.....Sweeps Clean
Sonnet Zone
Passey Place
Fairy Hill Park
The Tarn
Middle Name
R.T.M.
It's.......!
A silver plate
Seals the Fate
Of the Great Wall of Eltham.

These warm Red Bricks
Full of tricks,
Bowing, buckling,
Growing, suckling,
No longer flat,
Nor impressive tall,
This Wall that once was alive,
Rounded, pock marked, stretch marked skin
This Wall that kept nothing in,
Nor out.
This natural membrane
No bar to bird song,
No prison to Summer, long,
This Boundary Line,
So subtle in its shape and shade,
This Female Form in gentle glade,
Reduced to flat faced flacid form.
Strong enough to weather storm,
But only time will tell.

Three centuries on, will it swell,
And curve, and round.
Will it still protect
Kingsground?

A silver plate
Marks the Fate
Of the Great Wall of Eltham.