When in Cornwall… #1
Useful Advice When Visiting the Duchy of Cornwall Nursery Garden Garden Centre Café, Lostwithiel: ‘
Pass the Duchy of Cornwall Leek and Parsnip Drizzle Cake on the Left-Hand Side.’
Useful Advice When Visiting the Duchy of Cornwall Nursery Garden Garden Centre Café, Lostwithiel: ‘
Pass the Duchy of Cornwall Leek and Parsnip Drizzle Cake on the Left-Hand Side.’
Posted in Poetry
Tagged #Advice, #DuchyOfCornwall, #Lostwithiel, #prose, Cornwall, Kernow
Lostwithiel
should be
Foundwithiel;
do you see?
The story is:
We put up posters here
We put up posters there
“Has anybody seen our Lostwithiel?
Is that it over there?
No.”
We did the rounds.
Upon the grounds
that as it was quite big
finding it should be easy
like the finding of a twig
in a forest – oh! That’s not good,
it’s like trying to find a specific tree within an unknown wood.
But, to cut
a long story short,
as a practical poet really ought:
Lostwithiel was where it should have been all along
the direction that we had been looking in,
that was what was wrong.
“We found Lostwithiel,
Lostwithiel was found!
Foundwithiel!”