Lush Places: a love letter to our local
OUR PUB re-opens next week and we’re getting very excited.
Oh how we’ve missed it. A couple of months ago, when it seemed all hope was lost, Lush Places penned its very own community poem, each person contributing one or two lines and egged on by that Wondermentalist, the performance poet Matt Harvey, as part of an Artsreach show.
If, like me, you’re a lover of brevity, this poem is no haiku or limerick. But it’s well worth a read to the end. We’ve passed this love letter to our local to Palmers Brewery who say they have never seen anything quite like it.
So here goes…
An ode to the White Lion
In the bar the lion sleeps tonight
They say the White Lion roams on Lewesdon Hill
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