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Faurei – Playing with Trains

From port to port, from river to sea The freight trains run continuously Yet like the kettle observed with care When waited for they’re never there By which I mean only that I’m in Romania again, fortunately without taxi adventures … Continue reading

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dew-drenched butterflies and very disturbed sleepers

Another collection of haiku twittering from @AlinaMeridon… intense vibrations disturbing all the sleepers all quiet again dew-drenched butterfly flap your wings! faster! faster! a flood is coming… silver eruption shimmering translucent flow tremors echoing the sluice-gates open furious waters set … Continue reading

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A railway man

A railway man, I like things straight To curves I am inclined Each day I’m wearing something new A crack you’ll never find Where friction makes me very hot I’ve lubricant to spray Ignore the sleepers, full steam ahead! Along … Continue reading

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The Twitset Mind and Fingers of a Wailray Poet

Another collection of haiku twittering from @AlinaMeridon… shoes by the dozen women talking about sex Cosmopolitan! Homoromantic heterosexual man would like to meet… same? steel rails on sleepers track shadowed by sycamore trains slipping on leaves chthonic iron way icicle … Continue reading

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Holiday Snaps – Castles Peleş and Bran

Travelled from Bucharest by train to Sinaia. The journey was flat and largely uninteresting most of the way – although I slept for most of it – until we reached the mountains and the track coiled up alongside a river, … Continue reading

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