Monthly Archives: Apr 2024

From high up in the hawthorn tree

a beautiful song drifted down to me

I couldn’t see the melodic bird

but instantly knew what I had heard

not a skylark or even nightingale tweet

but a songthrush with its song so sweet.

During the early to late Middle Ages the general population well, mainly the breadwinner, enjoyed only one holiday each year, invariably a pilgrimage spent visiting a religious shrine. At the numerous pilgrim way service stations or inns catering for the travellers, drinks were served on trays of either wood or metal which were often stolen as souvenirs of the journey, hence the term, gone astray, the  owners would thus feel betrayed and hired blonde, ample-breasted, tartan mini-skirted, stocking clad serving wenches in white blouses carrying nine tankards in each hand to serve tables.

Prospero, Alonso, Ariel and Gonzalo

Caliban, Adrian, even Francisco

if you are wandering from where came these names

then reading,”The Tempest,” should surely be your aim.

Wearing dayglo, his cycling helmet back to front

we know he’s a typical safety conscious idiot

while missing the sign he’s run into the bush

I think it’s time he went home for lunch