Boating Lake

Message from the Heart

Imagine Gloucester opened her great heart
and shared her sacred past; told tales
of tall ships and cathedral bells,
soldiers and mighty kings
and all the people’s lives and loves.

Listen and she’ll ripple their voices
over the water; whisper your name
like a blessing to the sky,
welcome you in to her story.

A single line of prose

Here’s the city lined in hills, where the Severn inks her story in silver.

— Kathryn Alderman

Gloucester