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Peter Hodes, Suzy Klein, Richard Coles, Murray Lachlan Young, Ed Stafford and Lady Catherine Meyer

SUMMER IS CALLING

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Can you see it, can you really feel it?

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Bracken fronds jump up through last years dead.

Shrieking past the bramble boughs and on

The vanguard of their fast descending hoard.

Proclaiming ferny to soaking sun

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Through rain flecked birdsong's muted sweetness

Calling from the verdant Beltane bloom

Spring is in its late and lustrous youth

Sumptuous still yet to reach it’s luscious peak

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Can you feel it, can you smell it?

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Summer is just a moment from our door.

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BANK HOLIDAY THINKING

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Bank holiday weekend

So no work on Monday

For Monday’s like Sunday

So Friday’s like Thursday

And Sunday’s like Saturday

So Saturday’s Friday

For Monday is Sunday

But Tuesday is normal

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But turns into Monday

Thus Wednesday to Tuesday

And Thursday to Wednesday

And Friday to Thursday

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But suddenly Saturday

Trundles up early

But without a question is

The first day of the weekend

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But does this next Saturday

(Post holiday Monday)

Now have the same value

As it does in a ‘real’ week?

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Or does it experience

A partial loss of value?

Due to the fact

That it’s come along quicker

Leading to a general

Denigration of weekdays?

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I think not, for as we know

Saturday’s Saturday

Saturday’s simply

Not ever mistaken

Unless on Bank holiday

Where its feels quite like Friday

And also quite possibly

A tiny bit like Sunday

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But taken in context

Of the previous explanation

It is what it is

Without query or question

Which means all is normal

And Honest and decent

And back in the proper

Gregorian progression

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Unless it’s a leap year

Where whole days go missing

And nothing is ever

Quite right to begin with

Depending of course

On a persons perspective

Which without a doubt

Is just nobody’s business

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But fear not for all has now

Been well explained

Be there wind be there sun

Be there hail even rain

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For next Saturday (in it’s own time)

Will soon come along

So in the ‘tween time,

Please feel free

To get your bank holiday

Freak on.