A Short Story
of
Falling
WATCH OUT
FOR
MR CHERRY
Mr Cherry,the Wye Valley River
Festival Documenter, will be at all
the River Festival sites collecting
images of the river and the people.
If you see him, go up and say ‘You are Mr Cherry, and
I want my Documentation!’. You can then claim
your own River Festival Passport. Get this authorised and
stamped by Mr Cherry at different Festival locations and
you will be in the running for a wonderful Festival Prize!
It is the story of the falling rain
to turn into a leaf and fall again
it is the secret of a summer shower
to steal the light and hide it in a flower
and every flower a tiny tributary
that from the ground flows green and momentary
is one of water’s wishes and this tale
hangs in a seed-head smaller than my thumbnail
if only I a passerby could pass
as clear as water through a plume of grass
Mr Cherry will have his Document Tent at Ross on Wye,
Lydbrook and Llandogo, which you can visit, at others he
will be roaming around so see if you can find him.
to find the sunlight hidden at the tip
turning to seed a kind of lifting rain drip
www.wyeeye.com
then I might know like water how to balance
the weight of hope against the light of patience
water which is so raw so earthy-strong
and lurks in cast- iron tanks and leaks along
An exciting partnership of actors,
singers, musicians and dancers bringing
the central narrative of the Wye Valley
River Festival to life, creating magic,
mayhem and laughter.
drawn under gravity towards my tongue
to cool and fill the pipe-work of this song
Performers
Richard Headon, Jon Beedell, Mr & Mrs Clark,
Rew Lowe, Rosalind Haf-Brooks, June Campbell-Davis,
Joana Miranda and Kim Heron
www.poetryarchive.org/poet/alice-oswald
which is the story of the falling rain
that rises to the light and falls again
Alice Oswald
from the collection 'Falling Awake' to be published by Cape July 2016
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