A Poet through Atherstone

Weekend Moored between locks on the Atherstone Flight, Coventry Canal

I have, as promised, updated the Picture Albums..

A lovely poem sent to me this evening by Louise…

At the lock gates & on to Atherstone

 

Wind the windlass

Feel the burn

Water flowing fiercely

With every single turn

 

Push the gates

Watch it flow

Rushing downward

Sparkling and never slow

 

Down she goes

The beautiful boat

Bobbing about

Like cork she’ll float

 

Brightly painted

From stem to stern

No Problem her name

Not difficult to learn

 

The skipper moves her forward

Steering her out

Making her way cautiously

She has no doubt

 

Onto the next lock

And holding pattern

While we walk down

To make it happen

 

Steamboats, workboats

Narrowboats too

Cruising on by slowly

Enjoying the view

 

Dad and the skipper

They call her home

Taking No Problem

Far and wide they roam

 

Lucy the Collie dog

Runs along side

Jumping in and swimming

Sometimes she just likes to ride

 

A peaceful existence

As time seems to stand still

Or crawls at a snails pace

Going up a steep hill

 

No cares in the world

Here they just ignore them

For freedoms the motto

And the cry is No Problem

 

 

 

Louise Cooper-Gamson

© 15/07/07

 

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I am feeling rather special to have a poem written about No Problem.. thankyou so much Louise   

 

BTW Lou, Dad said “That poem is ***kin’ brilliant!”