Fa – the Green Dragon

A Place for the Odd Musings of an Expat Bristolian


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Jobs of Days Gone By #19 – The Cinema Usher

THE CINEMA USHER

Asked for your ticket

Quietly showed to your seat

Flash light lit the way


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Obscure words explained 102 – ban sidhe

BAN SIDHE (Banshee)

Old Irish, Fairy

Vengeful if one offends them

Clodhna their Queen


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Obscure words explained 101. – crepescular

CREPESCULAR

Resembling twilight

Shadowy forms loom about

dim and indistinct

 


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Open Window

OPEN WINDOW

In the dead of night

unseen creatures foraging

back to bed for me

 


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Lorsque descend la nuit

AS NIGHT DESCENDS

Birds fly to their roosts

the rain continues to fall

sun disappearing


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Obscure words explained 83. – hobgoblin

HOBGOBLIN

Something causing fear

a bogy to overcome

an evil spirit


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Unusual UK place names 61. – Over

OVER,  South Gloucestershire

Over Court burned down

The White Lady of Over

Haunts each New Year’s Eve

 

 

 


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Obscure words explained 43. – caliginous

CALIGINOUS

Dim weather outside

It’s a dark and stormy night

porch light dispels gloom

 


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Obscure words explained 36. – Librocublarist

LIBROCUBLARIST

one who reads in bed

Some to while away an hour

others hasten sleep