Today, Day 675 of the daily poems, our poet Alwyn Marriage adds just three lines to a Sri Lankan information booklet, and composes an intriguing found poem.
Plantation
found poem from a tea factory information booklet, Sri Lanka
An old planter remembers:
he remembers the train shouting
tea, tea, tea,
as the steam driven mini monster
panted up the verdant tea clad slopes,
(the old planter still remembers,
he remembers the sound of tea)
and he watched it singing
coconut, coconut, coconut
in the first phase of its joyful descent
(joyful, so joyful; so singing and so
joyful) as it steamed down
to the coconut groves
of the western plains.
Alwyn Marriage