London has a lot of dark underground passages
In a large city like London, in many places where there are underground stations or busy main roads, you will find interlinked passageways.
When they are deserted, they can be very eerie, disturbing places, and you wouldn't want to linger there.
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Subway
By Diana Grant
Subway
A long dark passage leading
Nowhere and everywhere
Grey stained cement walls in the half-light
Austere and unforgiving
Black rivulets running from ceiling cracks
Pervasive smell of urine taints stale air
Openings at intervals where daylight glimmers
On upward slopes to uncertain places
Random writing on the wall
A man could sleep here in his box
Ignored by life and death alike
Just the irregular footsteps passing by
Echoing his heartbeat
© 2009 Diana Grant
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About the Writer, Diana Grant
Poet and Stalker of Dark Passageways
I have lived in London for fifty years. It's a city throbbing with life, and I love it. Sometimes I write poetry to perform at community events
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Although retired, I still help people to write letters, proof-read things they have written, and help to improve and pinpoint the essence of what they want to say. (You can contact me if you would like that kind of help) .You can go to my Bio at the top right hand side of this page. Or, if you prefer, if you want more information, you can go to my website, Glorious Confusion, where there is a page About Me
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What Scares You?
Better not say - we might use it to frighten you on a dark night
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MaxReily
Sep 9, 2011 @ 11:28 am | delete
- What scares me? Flying. It's my greatest fear and worst nightmare. I get nervous just being in airports even if I'm not flying! I've actually been so terrified that I've momentarily lost consciousness on takeoff, but I've flown to quite a few places and even around the world, because I refuse to be ruled by fear.
Your poem is wonderfully evocative of the feeling of those dark, oppressive places that we all have to brave at times. Great job on this lens!
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KM9999999
Jul 23, 2011 @ 12:39 am | delete
- Love your poem.
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poddys
Jan 16, 2011 @ 3:19 pm | delete
- Being alone in a creepy place scares me. A year after I moved to London in 1978 I had to work late one night in the office down by St. Pauls, and walked back along the back roads to Islington. It was around 3am, and as I passed a small hospital on the dark deserted 2 lane road, I heard an eerie scream shatter the silence. I shivered, and practically ran the last mile, constantly looking behind me.
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