Cameron in new assault on green belt
The Daily Telegraph, 2 September 2012
Wirral was once the hundred of Willaston,
Willaston, now marooned in the Wirral
hemmed in by the Mersey and Dee
lapped at its shores by paddock and roost
the M53 seeming to moan through the cedars
modernity caring only to break
for tea and a cake as it hustles on through,
nostalgic for the twenty-first century.
In 1850 Battersea Fields, a wilderness
where gentlemen with more adventurous
ladies strolled the Thames’s reach,
couldn’t foresee the city’s westward creep,
the fences went up, but to keep the city
at bay or the wilderness, who can say?
(c) 2102 Slush Poet
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