25 July 2025

Past Midnight

Leaf 97 – Homeward Bound

 



This poem was written as a response to #SenseWrds Prompt 73 to the words: Desolate, Silvered, Street (without using those words). It reflects a real moment remembered from my undergraduate days, when I lived in Manor Park, London, E12.

 

Past midnight – a long walk home 

through empty East Ham,

neon-glazed cold, wet underfoot.

 

 

 

Photograph credit: PickPik