After another three hour session in a traffic jam on the car park (the M25 motorway ring road around London) I wrote this post originally in 2017.
Ten Facts About The M25
As you will learn from this fact file video, if you are going to use the M25 you need to know what junction to come off, have allowed enough petrol to cope with a traffic jam and have been to the bathroom before you go on it. Last time I was involved in a delay I could only tick two of those boxes. Suffice to say I was cross-legged and rushed into my hotel when I arrived…
A Poem About The M25
This is a poem I found called ‘The M25 Jam’. I can really relate to this!
White-eyed with sheer surprise,
A thousand cars, vans and lorries
Race hastily along the black tarmac
As if fleeing some foul menace
That impels them from pure hell.
Clockwise commuters, red-eyed
Bleary with boredom or tiredness
Crawl submissively forward
As if afraid of some great beast ahead,
Jaws wide agape, that threatens
To swallow them completely.
The escaping turncoat horde gaze on
Glad they have eluded clutches
Of the ensuing traffic-jam chimera
While we, the prey that took the bait,
Creep blindly on, reluctantly,
Resigned to meet our waiting fate.
Before you go
My name is Dorothy Berry-Lound an artist and writer. You can find out more about my art and writing at https://dorothyberryloundart.com.
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