You can travel anywhere in your imagination!

Where will you go? How will you get there?

Here is a poem about traveling by train that I read in my last post (5th May 2020):

From A Railway Carriage by Robert Louis Stevenson

Faster than fairies, faster than witches,
Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches;
And charging along like troops in a battle,
All through the meadows the horses and cattle:
All of the sights of the hill and the plain
Fly as thick as driving rain;
And ever again, in the wink of an eye,
Painted stations whistle by.

Here is a child who clambers and scrambles,
All by himself and gathering brambles;
Here is a tramp who stands and gazes;
And there is the green for stringing the daisies!
Here is a cart run away in the road
Lumping along with man and load;
And here is a mill and there is a river:
Each a glimpse and gone for ever!

Could you hear the clattering sound of the old-fashioned train as you read that poem?

Could you write a travel poem that uses the whooshing sound of a modern train? Or the sound of a car or a plane? Or a submarine or a rocket?

You decide!

When you get to your destination what will it be like? Is it a place you have been? Or somewhere you'd like to go? Is it a real place or fantasy? Why are you there?

Here's a poem I wrote about being bored with sunbathing:

On the Sunbeds

Fidgety person: It’s peaceful out here, don’t you think?

Reading person: Mmm.

Fidgety person: What’s that you’re reading? Is it good?

Reading person: Mmm.

Fidgety person: D’you know how to fix these sunbeds?

Reading person: Mmm.

Fidgety person: I think I have it. D’you want some lotion?

Reading person: Mmm.

Fidgety person: I love this stuff, it smells of coconut.

Reading person: Mmm.

Fidgety person: Would you rub some on my back please?

Reading person: Mmm.

Fidgety person: Are you sure that you don’t want some?

Reading person: Mmm.

Fidgety person: Wow! It’s really hot out here now!

Reading person: Mmm.

Fidgety person: Fantastic view, do take a look.

Reading person: Mmm.

Fidgety person: I’m so glad I brought this drink.

Reading person: Mmm.

Fidgety person: How ‘bout a walk along the beach?

Reading person: Mmm.

Fidgety person: I think maybe I’ll go and swim.

Reading person: Mmm.

Fidgety person: You’ll be OK on your own then?

Reading person: Mmmmmmm.

Who is with you on your travels? You could write a poem like this. Decide who is talking and imagine a conversation between them. If you write it with the same sort of repetition it will give a good rhythm to your poem.

Bon Voyage!

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