Tuesday 24 December 2013

The Legend of the Christmas Moth


There's not going to be anything flying tonight apart from the odd drowsy Winter Moth and possibly flights of angels. So here's something different, inspired (if that's the right word) by my debut in a Nativity Play this year at the age of 63 as a shepherd.  (I was too badly-behaved to be picked at school)




Before the shepherds had left their flocks
Or the Wise Men breasted the hill
Which looks down on the place where Jesus was born,
There was someone else. On the sill

Of the Bethlehem stable there perched a moth
(Cymbalophora oertzeni)
And along with a spider - top right - he first
Saw Joseph on bended knee

Raptly looking at Mary his wife
And the baby so strangely born
As a model of how we should lead our lives
On that first dark Christmas morn.

So whether you're man (or woman) or moth
Here's wishing you joy and good cheer
And remember to log on when Martin's Moths
Starts again in April next year.

Merry Christmas one and all and all the very best for 2014!

3 comments:

Bennyboymothman said...

Merry Christmas to you too and a happy new year! Lets hope we ge plenty of good moths come April/May time.
All the best
Ben

Sam • StarshipSN18 said...

HA! Awesomeness incarnate!
Or should that be incarnatella...
Happy new year Martin!
Sam

Martin Wainwright said...

Lovely, many thanks both and a very happy and mothful New Year to you too

No more excursions into theology for a while, I promise...

all warmest

Martin