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.......!
I spent my other Life, arms akimbo,
Feet planted deep and square,
My foliage a snare
For thousand, creeping, crawling creatures,
Nefarious, nubile with nodulous features,
And room enough for many birds,
And nests,
And place for nuts and squirrels,
And floating plastic carrier bags,
And wayward kite, with tail that snags,
And once, just once,
Lovers left their arrowed heart
Tattooed upon my wrinkled chest,
Their vow to never part.

This new Life, arms akimbo,
Foot planted sweet and low,
My fingers pointing the way to go,
This way to Town,
And over there another place, where streams may
flow,
But now no tattooed lovers heart,
No heiroglyph with bended dart,
No birds, no squirrels,
No flapping bags,
No haphazard branch, that sags.

Now,
Such names, such numbers,
Precise and clear,
Imprinted black and white.
A blaze of colour here.

NEW ELTHAM 3/4
ELTHAM 3/4
SIDCUP 2 1/2
CHISLEHURST 2
WOOLWICH 3 1/4