Friday 27 November 2009

Hay Corner

The weather has certainly been against the Commonwealth of Hay's latest venture. Last Sunday was the second time they held Hay Corner, Hay's answer to Hyde Park Corner, in the Buttermarket, and once again it bucketted down.
I quote from one who was there:
"Dismal - sitting on plastic seating, lashed by the rain and listening to a lecture on surrealism...."
On the bright side, they did have a speaker all the way from Dobbo in New South Wales the first time they did it, and apparently he was very eloquent!
Let's hope the weather is better on 27th December, when the Soapbox comes out for the third time!

3 comments:

Arthur's Dadaist said...

It's not seventeen syllables, but what a nice bit of haiku . . .

Dismal
Sitting on plastic seating
Lashed by the rain
Listening to a lecture on Surrealism

Eigon said...

Well, he is a poet!

I heard this on The Verb on Radio 3 last night:
"Expressing your emotions in seventeen syllables is diffi...."

Arthur's Dadaist said...

Very good. That goes well with . . .

There was a young man from Crewe
Who's limericks ended on line two . . .