Yes, ’tis Spring, and our poet Helen Price today leaps aboard the 555 bus alongside her muse, one Wm Wordsworth, this Day 517 of the daily new poems. So brill …
On the Spring timetable of the Lancaster to Keswick 555 double-decker bus
Earth has not anything to show more fair
Dull would he be of soul who could pass by
The springtime schedule of the 555,
A double-decker bus with no compare.
The route in winter’s not so good, as there
Are many villages to satisfy;
It goes so slowly that I fain would cry
(Though it’s a bargain for a £2 fare).
But in the springtime verily I weep
With joy, for then the bus eats up the miles
By zippin’ up the M6 – in one leap
It shoots from Lancaster clean to the hills.
The summer 555’s so fast, so cheap!
Ne’er saw I, never knew, a bus so brill.
Helen Price