Kirstie Pelling is our GoLakes Travel #poetinmotion, out and about in The Central Lakes seeking and sharing poetic inspiration on boats, buses, trains, bikes and electric vehicles. Here’s what she’s been up to lately.

“I’ve never tried an electric car and definitely never tried a Twizy. They really are something different. I rented one out from the Langdale Hotel & Spa and put it through its paces up the Langdale Valley and onto Wrynose Pass. It was certainly a great fun way to get around but with a serious point. This electric car is a cleaner, greener, more sustainable way to see the Lakes and is helping reduce local carbon emissions. But it’s more than that. It’s an Electric Superhero.

Watch the video, see what it’s like and hear me read my Electric Superhero poem. Do leave a comment and let me know what you think. Or tweet me on #poetinmotion. I would love to hear from you.

Kirstie.”

Electric Superhero

by Kirstie Pelling

 Kapow! It’s now. Or it’ll be never.
A different kind of comic book hero;
tailpipe emission precisely zero.
Snug superbug. Our Batcar forever?

Splat! Like that, it takes the hill. Fells the fell.
Shines its headlights onto our addiction
to evil particulate emission.
Wheeled steel crime fighter in bubble shell.

Thwack! It hits the track. This awesome fella
refuels by plug like household appliance
yet can change our world, recharge our science.
No windows though so bring an umbrella.

Vooroom! No room for our toxic habit.
An eco wheeled, Renault sealed work of art.
It seems like a drive in a posh go kart,
but rockets you into clean green orbit.

Blam! Lithium battery ion man
travels the lakes, attacking deadly creep
of global warming. So lets’s say beep beep
to Tuk Tuk, as it holds up car and van.

Electric Superhero Poem ©Kirstie Pelling 2014 All Rights Reserved.

No reproduction without authors permission.

If you’d like to take a Twizy for a spin then go to http://www.golakes.co.uk/travel/co-wheels.aspx to find out more.