I used to travel the tube often enough that ‘ Poems on the underground’ were a daily treat. Now I am an infrequent ‘tuber’ any underground poem is a treat.

Not every featured poem hooks me in but this one was rather marvelous.

The poems change monthly and I only discovered today that there is a website where you can read the poems that have been chosen for the current month.

https://tfl.gov.uk/corporate/about-tfl/culture-and-heritage/poems-on-the-underground

Poems on the Underground was launched in 1986, following an idea from the American writer Judith Chernaik, to bring poetry to a wider audience.

Discovering this website is a small pre-Christmas gift to myself. Certainly serendipitous. You may be seeing more poetry in these blogs. I am hopelessly lazy about reading and enjoying poetry since I left London.  My daily commute made me complacent that poetry would just drop into my lap more or less daily. I realised today what I have been missing.