The Green Corridor Poems by RGS Inkspiration

May 23, 2011 by  
Filed under Heritage, Nature, Stories

During The Green Corridor Forum, four students from the Raffles Girls’ School’s Inkspiration writing group shared their excellent poems. Here are the poems, enjoy!

The Planks
by Ho Ting En

Of history;
Of memories;
That carried years and years on their backs.
Lying sadly, forlornly, dejectedly
By the tracks
That are also forgotten and hidden.
Extending into the future,
Trailing into the past,
Walking in the present,
The planks were well used
But they are abandoned now. Read more

tracks by madeleine lee

May 17, 2011 by  
Filed under Heritage, Stories, Transport

The series of 9 poems shared by Madeleine Lee during The Green Corridor Forum:

tracks by madeleine lee

i     railway

at five each day give or take
a trundling rusty centipede
creaking past beaten panels
zinc tokens of sound proofing
awakening grumbling

its steely tiger head suddenly
silenced after a century
background noisy dischord
foreground political jar
in between some elevator music

stepping onto meter tracks
between s and m infinite h’s
now less risky
now equidistant
still wanting perspective Read more