A collection of poems written by the 200 people who attended the launch of Swindon Brunel 200 celebrations at Ridgeway School, Wroughton, 24 April 2006 with Tony Izza Bard aka Community Poet Tony Hillier
Our choir is amazing
It’s really good fun
It’s all about steam
That’s a train that runs
We sang at the Ridgeway and the Elendene
At the Junior Hall we’re soon to be seen
Elizabeth Jagan and Laura Okkels
Think Brunel
Think Construction
Without that
You can’t function
Keith and Winston, Cre8 Studios
Brunel was a very clever man
Ran an engine which was
Unusual and very slow
Now we needed an
Even faster engine that will take you to
London and back !
Wroughton Junior School Pupil
Brunel built an engine and it
Ran by steam
Until it ran out of coal
Next came
Electric clean
Love Steam
Wroughton Junior School Pupil
Brunnel, Brunel, I K Brunel
Running on time
Ucan break it, you can fly
Not a chance of being late
Everywhere around the world
Lines by Brunel
Wroughton Junior School Pupil
Genius
Jean with us *
Steam Trains
Oil our brains
Engineer
Elephant’s Ear
Lots to hear
Brunel’s always here
* Jean Allen, of Swindon Society, is custodian of the town’s history
The world’s first 200 second poem about Brunel collaboratively created by the 200 people who attended the launch of Swindon Brunel 200 celebrations at Ridgeway School, Wroughton, 24 April 2006
Brunel’s Birthday is April ninth
He is the builder of a ship that still exists
He died when he was fifty three
He made railways, ships and trains
Wroughton Junior School Pupil
Brunel’s building a track
yet he can’t look back
And he’s running out of time
and he’s making a sign
Jessie, Sophie, Jordan
This year we’re celebrating
The birth of Brunel
Two hundred years ago
He never rested, Oh No
On the go every day building the Train
Engineer ? He was the Main
Two hundred years later
in two thousand and six
Children from Wroughton Junior created a mix
Ellenor Brain
It’s not my Bridge
The road’s too high
Jean Allen, Swindon Society
( words ascribed to Brunel in Jean’s cartoon re Whitehouse Road Bridge – the most bashed bridge in Britain! )
Is Brunel’s Number Up ?
asks Mr Deputy Mayor
Brunel a genius with the sums
Without sums you’re lost
perhaps left twiddling your thumbs
Brunel started Swindon
yet found Swindon an uphill struggle
‘tis now up to us to rise to the challenge
to smooth Swindon out
Cllr Peter Stoddart,
Deputy Mayor, Swindon Borough Council
They’re here,
the camera men are here filming
and we are here singing
filming, singing about Brunel
Vidia
Brunel, Brunel, he was a man
Brunel Brunel, he built a train
Wroughton Junior School Pupil
Brunel ? not this early in the morning
Left a gap he did
‘tween Railway and Old Town
As Town Centre Manager
I’ve got to fill it !
Oliver O’Dell, Town Centre Manager
There was a man called Brunel
This year we are celebrating him
We wrote and sang steam songs
Daisy Marsh
Thank you Brunel for building the Railway
You helped us a lot, back in your day
It took thousands of nails
And thousands of miles of track
So when we go, we can also come back !
Abigail Cowley and Shannon Midwinter
There is a choir from Wroughton Junior School
It went to every Festival
They sang and sang about Brunel
Lianne Southby
The choir is here and there
Thundering along
There rhythms of their voices
Seem to rattle out a song
Wroughton Junior School Pupil
Trains were nothing 1829
Running ‘til today because of Richard
Avery long story
I in a race, everything changed
New things started and everything began
Wroughton Junior School Pupil
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