Poetic Birmingham, UK

Birmingham, Poem City
By Judy Tweddle

Birmingham, Poem City
flying in brave new
words like girders
a poem with cranes
editing herself
with diggers
she's a poem with trees
and images of cool canals
she's a brick
a mixed metaphor
a balti pie
a poem with a
warm heartland
a central theme
but we have to
Dig Beth
digbeneath,
for a poem is more than girders
more than bricks
it's the music the rhythms
the spirit within it
we are the poem
we can't rest
on her laureates
we are the poem
with diggers and cranes
constantly rewriting
ourselves ourselves
ourselves