November 5

By Rhiannonw

Mon, 07 Nov 2022
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Fizzing fireworks brief and bright
red and orange, gold and white,
rocket, catherine wheel and candle,
silent sparklers – carrot handle
for the metal rod, to hold
easily, with care controlled:
children’s beaming sheer delight
fire displays on bonfire night

[IP: Fire]

 

 

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Submitted by Tom Brown on

It was Divali they have the festival of lights now I wonder because is a very a important feast of the Hindus, I wonder, because the fireworks were banned this year.They probably just had them anyway.

All the best Rhiannon! Tom Brown

 

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

Do they have November 5 bonfire night in South Africa? Noting to do with Divali and the Hindu religion.

It started to remind of the failed 17th-century attempt to blow up Parliament and assassinate King James I. There are bonfires, and fireworks. I think there were less big displays this year because of the financial crisis. This was a small occasion for 2 families with small children to meet up and let the children experiemce not-too-noisy fireworks. Rhiannon

 

Submitted by Tom Brown on

I don't know the exact days for Divali but it is this time of the year. Nice poem very colourful.

See you

 

Submitted by Di_Hard on

loved "children beaming sheer delight" that's perfect, somehow conveying their stiffness as they hold a sparkler for the first time, but also the joy in their faces, the intensity of this moment. Wonderful

ps didn't know about carrot handles, they seem a very useful innovation

 

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

Thank you. You are such a careful, insightful reader! I hadn't thought about the stiffness conveyed, but of course that is how they are in their pleasure and awe!

I hadn't heard of the carrot handles until Saturday, but my daughter in law had picked it up somewhere, and they worked really well. I don't know if we had the carrots recylced on Sunday when we were eating all together! Rhiannon