Summer’s Banshees
scream across
blue evening skies
Invisible in the haze
of long summer days
and petrol-fumed
barbeque smoke
Shrill shrieks, Send shivers
Set teeth on edge
of those unsuspecting
un-realising souls below
An ode to the visiting Swifts over London by Martin Addison – 09/07/2013
The sights and smells of summer all succinctly captured in a few lines. You’re such a wordsmith Martin.
Thank you Dan – I’m just glad that we seem to have finally got a summer, though the Swifts were a couple of weeks late arriving this year.
oooh yes, shivers!
It is a particularly piercing scream and can be disconcerting if you don’t know the source 😉
I can picture it, so well done! 🙂
Thank you so much 🙂 I’d love to photograph them but always too high and too fast!
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