Circle Line

Thirteen London Boroughs

Served by the Circle Line

Bear left at Paddington Edgware Road

On Baker Street your route define

For BBC Great Portland Street

Euston Square for BMA

Kings Cross then onto Farringdon

Near where money people play

As a postern in the city wall

To the credit of Moorgate

Among the busy Liverpool Street

To the markets of Aldgate

Feeling treasonous at Tower Hill

Climb the steps and feel the fire

At the Monument by London Bridge

Is Fish Street’s column to the pyre

Light your candle wick on Cannon street
London Stone will suit your measure
Where you may Bank on your assurances
Eight local pubs for deals at leisure

The power base of Blackfriars

Brothers of the chapel cap

Scandal monger’s of the printing press

Henry’s crown on Katherine’s lap

City liberties at Temple Bar

Where the Barristers reside

Embankment walks to Westminster

From London’s Eyes no place to hide

Take Pall Mall to St. James’s Park

Seat of a Monarch’s final bed

One day a King of all surveyed

Then laid to rest without his head

Victoria where her venue changed

A carriage ride to Buckingham Palace

This gallery of Kings and Queens

Found abdications poisoned chalice

From Cadogan to the Grosvener’s

Ostentatiously Sloane Square

A Kings Road link to Knightsbridge

South Kensington’s Thurloe Square

Taking ales and fine wine fine dining

At T.S. Elliot’s Gloucester road

To the royal pen at High Street Ken

Cream of Knightsbridge al la mode

Antiques and Carnivals Notting Hill

If you’re a Circle Line Supporter

Cock-a-hoop complete the loop

Game set and match at Queens Bayswater

This was my challenge, to write a roundabout rhyme on the twenty six underground stations which make a historical tour around the power houses of London remarkably achievable. 'My Kind of City'. Next time you are in London shopping get a ticket and hail the rail.