John Twisleton’s poems

  Thames waters From Haywards Heath to Hampton Court where train is exchanged for boat  carried on the Thames to Richmond. The sun sparkles on waters  where regal swans glide  overseen by herons poised to fish. ‘Princess Freda’ scatters the geese on her route downstream  plied day by day for a century. King Henry’s Palace gives way to wooded banks with weeping willows  past Teddington to Richmond. Thames waters ply on incessantly pushing their motor traffic to London and the sea beyond. John Twisleton  7 July 2022