Asha Sahni, Assistant Governance Officer at University of Bristol, was inspired by Guy Orpen’s article and photograph of sunrise over the demolished Sorting Office. While working with a writing group of adults with Asperger Syndrome Asha co-facilitates, she wrote the haiku below about changing landscapes.
Temple Meads to Tintern
via Bishopston Library and Oxford
Platform fifteen sun
rising on city ridden
of concrete wasteland.
Rubbish bags wasting
weeds thriving in gleaming heat
order has broken.
What are you reading?
I ask for the pleasure of
seeing book not phone.
Shadows glamour walls
water wandering through grass
lands of twilight sky.
Wow, I love “Shadows glamour walls”; such a powerful image.
What a fantastic poem Asha. You spot on. I would like to see more of your poems published. I hope the University of Bristol and the city will acknowledge and value your talent.