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POETRY CORNER DORSET COUNCIL- WEST PURBECK REPORT
Toddlers have fun
Summer Folk in the sun Waste Collection
Rabbits that run
Light clouds drifting In the warm summer day We recognise that waste collection has
Spirits lifting been poor in some parts of the ward.
Part of your council tax pays for your
West wind shifting Voices ringing bins and recycling to be collected
In the warm summer scene every week and that hasn’t been
Swallows winging happening consistently of late out of the
Children at play Blackbirds singing Purbeck depot at Wareham. So, we
Grasses that sway In the warm summer sun have made it very clear that we aren’t
Farmers make hay Mothers smiling happy about it. We’ve spoken to the
Cabinet member responsible for this
In the warm summer breeze area who has done a huge amount of work on our local depot and put an
Memories filing improvement plan in place. There’s no reflection on any particular staff, they do
Moon beguiling an good job, it’s just circumstances that have led to services being less than what
In the warm summer night we would want for our residents. We will be checking in with this improvement plan
Eileen Richardson in four weeks to see what progress has been made and reporting back to you.
Please do keep us up to speed on how it’s going during that time so we can feed
The song of the sea it back. Thank you for your patience. Things do go wrong and it’s up to us to help
to resolve it.
The pebbles are washed by the incoming tide In a peaceful ocean on a coral
The ripples as quiet as can be reef Traffic Survey Equipment
The water just gently ebbs and flows Iridescent fish swim lazily
As I listen to the song of the sea. As though dancing in an Whilst this item refers specifically to Bere Regis it applies all across our ward. I was
asked by a concerned resident why a traffic monitoring strip had been put across
underwater ballet North Street in Bere Regis and what was it was hoping to find. I enquired of our
The lapping waves break on a faraway shore To the rhythm of the song of the Highways department and
Making music like a rhapsody sea. found out that not only had DC
The wind gently sighs as though to sing White horses ride on the crest of a not installed it but that the
In nature’s song, the song of the sea. wave installer had not applied for a
Only to fall in a trough eternally license (it is after all your road!)
The storm tossed breakers crash on the cliffs and had not therefore paid a
Like the mighty climax of a symphony Men and their dreams are soon license fee. They were
subsequently removed and the
forgotten
The white spray hisses as it froths and foams It last forever – the song of the sea. applicant is now in the process
As it joins in with the song of the sea. of applying for a license to put
one in North Street and West
Green palm trees sway in a far distant isle Eileen Richardson Street, with the corresponding
The azure waters in perfect harmony payment. I am sure it just
slipped their mind. If Dorset
All the sounds of nature in one orchestra Council install a strip I can find
Playing together the song of the sea, out the reason but private

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