POEM - DARK LANE, KINGSLEY

Mr & Mrs Main were well known people in Kingsley Village. For many years they served the community and started the Evergreen Club for the over 60's.They lived in Dark Lane and Mrs Main wrote the following poem which I am sure she would be pleased to know I had been able to remember her and include her poem on my blog. They are both sadly missed but remembered.

Dark Lane Delight

Not very far from the city scene.

Lies Kingsley lovely and serene.

With attractive old buildings

Like the Church on the hill,

And homely old cottages,

A stream and a mill.

A stream that babbles its way along.

Mingling with the birds' sweet song.

Down from the Nab, along the lane,

Across the road and back again,

Through dear Brookside, a pretty sight,

Seen either by day or yet by night.

Never a village has seemed so fair,

As when the orchards blossomed there.

The laburnums too in their splendid array.

Have thrilled me now for many a day

and now we have our summer show,

of roses in abundant glow.

A cockerel crows to greet the day,

and ponies clip clop along their way.

One can see them grazing and tossing mane,

as one goes for a walk along Dark Lane.

In a field by the road where they can go free,

a more picturesque sight one never did see

but apart from its beauty its a cheery place

when you never are far from a friendly face

and most of the natives will say "How do"

and really seem to welcome you.

I'm very proud of my adopted home

and know I will never want to roam.

(Mrs Eileen Main).