CAMBRIDGE SUMMER by Joy Magezis

Photos - Joy Magezis                                                         Meandering with River Cam through summer afternoon Shallow pond ripples budding water lilies On it’s way to town past common open greens Cows there munch, stare in cinematic scenes Skirting shopping centre posh new town arcade Staying with simpler Cambridge I’m on to Parker’s Piece Here in central square Fair, music, French market More like the old days with community booths Age COPE and schools Humanists, Women’s Centre families, baby bulge in city I call home A foreigner I may be but now I stand out less on Mill Road just the norm as culture mix enriches Arjuna, health food coop squatted social centre small cafés with boards where I post Reiki signs Open Studio tradition seeing art and homes sharing throughout city communing of our ways Summer holiday shift from uni students to visitors Foreign language learners bike on wrong side of road The edges now seem blurred in town and gown divide Market town, Microsoft keeping city aboom Then again in September as the recession bites with colleges still strong will townies feel the nip?   Joy Magezis worked for many years as a college lecturer. Her intrductory book on women's studies has been published internationally. She now works as a Reiki Master teacher and practitioner. -  www.reikjoy.co.uk. Her new poetry book, The Universe for Breakfast is available at - http://germinalproductions.com/blackapollo/joy01.htm Click on icon to purchase