Leaf 132 – Art Inspired
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| Robert Ayton - from 'The Ladybird Book of the Weather' (1962) |
This tanka was partly inspired
by an illustration from ‘The Ladybird Book of the Weather,’ drawn by Robert
Ayton, which was first published in 1962. It reminded me of the days when I was
younger, when we used to receive two postal deliveries a day. It’s hard to
imagine this now in our modern digital age, but there used to be more
deliveries than that. Amongst our family memorabilia, we have a small bundle of
letters written between my great grandparents, several of which – as the
postmarks show – were delivered back and forth in a single day, almost with the
same sort of speed with which we now send emails or text messages!
Misty mornings and
sunny afternoons, each
bringing glad tidings –
borne back and forth,
in a postman’s satchel.
