This is my poor attempt at poetry but it might give you a flavour of life and train journeys in India!
Lazer- beam sun in a fierce-blue biro sky,
Everywhere sprawled sleeping bodies on a urine-doused platform,
Occasional cardboard emtombed motorcycles between stacked sugar cube parcels,
Quick! Rumbling, rolling engine prompting mounting leaps and scrambling.
Chukka, chukka, chukka, baddoom, baddoom.
Chukka, chukka, chukka, baddoom, baddoom.
Glowing, drifting lantern in a warm, cobalt ocean sky.
Crammed pastel coloured match-box homes topped by rusting, rippling roofs,
Garbage gardens complete with sewage ponds and a bare bottomed baby fountain,
Smiling, crouching families and neighbours chatting, cooking, cricket-playing.
Chukka, chukka, chukka, baddoom, baddoom.
Chukka, chukka, chukka, baddoom, baddoom.
Sinking, dull candle glow in a hazy, burning-embers sky,
A platform foraging, charcoal warthog with a pendulum tail.
Waves of unhurried people with teapot arms, washing across the tracks,
Flat patchwork emerald fields and wiry cotton-ball trees rushing by.
Chukka, chukka, chukka, baddoom, baddoom.
Chukka, chukka, chukka, baddoom, baddoom.
Plummeting pale torch beam in a washed out ghostly sky.
Chomping, angular buffalos and a solitary shrouded shepherd wandering home,
Clothes waving like rainbow seaweed in the murkey waters of the wide mirrored river.
Rude silhouettes smoking in a smoggy lagoon sky.
Chukka, chukka, chukka, baddoom, baddoom.
Chukka, chukka, chukka, baddoom, baddoom.
Roaming UFO's in an ebony, space abyss sky.
Inside: stern-feeling stares, affirmative head-shaking and aristocratic questioning,
The persistant, insistant vendors lullaby of 'Chai chai' up and down the carriage,
Muffled soothing snores like water down a plug hole.
Chukka, chukka, chukka, baddoom, baddoom.
Chukka, chukka, chukka, baddoom, baddoom.
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