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"To watch a passenger reading

“To watch a passenger reading a poem on the Underground, and catch the fleeting smile, is to share in a brief conspiracy of understanding.” [Evening Standard (12 October 2000)]
That’s a great way to describe the Poems on the Underground I’ve been seeing recently. There was a particular one about the moon that I liked. Unfortunately I can’t remember nor find it. Here are other poems that you might come across on your otherwise mundane tube ride in London.

10 comments

  1. I love it how the Metro manages to pad itself out with the previous evening’s Evening Standard content. They don’t have poems on the Jubilee line. Infact they don’t really have much other than signalling problems.

  2. i think that the poetry on the tube is an example of why i wanted to move to london…there is something about london that is so different from the US…something special…i am not sure…amazingly haunting and human…

  3. we’ve had poetry in our subways for about two years now… i wonder if we’re “amazingly haunting and human”?
    🙂
    thats a great line, mamatha.

  4. The tube ride is really not that glamorous. It’s all about avoiding all eye contact and looking miserable.

  5. actually, i have been to london…three times. i absolutely loved the tubes,all the different lives,all of the trends. of course i was a tourist and an american so i talked to people and met all sorts…a hottie french guy, an australian, a welsh, and londoners occasionaly. of course we do have tube in the US but the people are so much less cosmopolitan…and they don’t have that awesome english accent! 🙂
    (naushin:i thought that i was a dork for using that line…i couldn’t explain it properly!)

  6. oops, that was my message (i forgot to write my name… i keep doing that..that’s what happens when you send messages at work)

  7. If you click the ‘Remember me’ checkbox at the end you don’t have to keep writing your details in.

  9. Perhaps…
    perhaps, perhaps….if you can’t make your mind up, we’ll never get started…

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