Travel List

Early travels
were a few streets
abroad, playmate
in the next street
baptismal church
next one over
holidays added
Swanage, Scotland
the Lakes, the Scillies
but sailing to
Australia
(flying was too
expensive then)
added a swathe
London – Tilbury
Rotterdam and
Lisbon, Dakar
Cape Town, Durban
destination
Perth – W. A.
Epic train rides
Kalgoorlie to
Port Pirie on to
Adelaide and
Melbourne, Sydney
driving up to
Brisbane, Gladstone
back to Melbourne
and sailing home
Wellington and
Rarotonga
Tahiti and
two weeks empty
Pacific – as
long as many
holidays now
Acapulco
on Christmas Day
then Panama
Caracas fuel
then Port-of-Spain
Southampton and
back home again.
School trip – Vichy
Uni field trips
Aix-en-Provence
Isle of Arran
illicit love
to Paris and
Malta via
France, Italy
and Sicily,
Tenerife
standing above
the clouds atop
smould’ring Teide
holidays to
Santorini
Naxos and Crete
almost living
for six months
Covid lockdown
new home Ireland
then relocate
to West Yorkshire
– songs in Iceland,
drive Morocco,
the Green Heart of
the Netherlands…
Now a few streets
are become an
expedition
I vacation
still, the very world
in my mind’s eye…

© Andrew Wilson, 2026

Over at dVerse Poets Pub, Grace in OpenLinkNight, invites us to ost a poem of our choice, and since I missed the deadline for Unlock with Lists, prompted by Björn Rudberg (brudberg) in Meeting the Bar: Critique and Craft, I am posting my list poem here. I drew inspiration from Rambling Man by Lemon Jelly…