Princes Street Conversations
Edinburgh Revisited
English - September 07, 2019 12:00 - 1 minute - 892 KBBooks Arts Performing Arts edinburgh; fringe edinburgh castle edinburgh festival poetry ledingham edinburgh revisited Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Prince's Street Conversations
A river of conversations
Snatched in the passing
Tumble downstream
In a wall of broken sound,
Eavesdropped from other worlds,
The private and banal,
The intimate and profane,
The guttural grunts,
The over-engineered sentences,
Of Morningside ladies,
The voices of the continents,
The language of the streets,
Shouting and whispering,
Gossiping,
Loving and hating,
Promising,
Pleading,
Lying and trusting,
But passing by,
They fade together,
To a single passage,
Eventually,
Emptying out,
To that place
We dare not
Care to
Mention.