Friday, February 4, 2011

Children's Chugging Train Poem For Adults too, by Polish poet Tuwim

YouTube has an exiting reading of rhythmically chugging poem about a train, rivals Robert Louis Stevenson's From A Railway Carriage (Faster than fairies, faster than witches, Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches ..) and Auden's Night Mail (This is the Night Mail crossing the border, Bringing the cheque and the postal order). I found Julian Tuwim, Polish Jewish poet in Wikipedia (Researching Lodz for my book of Travel TalesJ, tracked to the English of his poem on the site Old Poetry, and a reader's comment led me to the You Tube of the poem in the original Polish where you can hear it. Enjoy!
Lokomotywa

Picture of Polish Poet Julian Tuwim in Poland's third largest city, Lodz, on the street with street art

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