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About This Author
My name is Joy, and I love to write.
Why poetry, here? Because poetry uplifts its writer, and if she is lucky enough, her readers, too. Around us, so many objects abound to write about. Once a poet starts with a smallest, most trivial object, he shall discover that his pen will spill out what is most delicate or most majestic hidden inside him. Since the classics sometimes dealt with lofty subjects with a lofty language, a person with poetry in his soul may incline to emulate that. That is understandable. Poetry does that to a person: it enlarges the soul and gives it wings. Yet, to really soar, a poet needs to take off from the ground.
 
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Everyday Canvas
"Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself."
CHARLIE CHAPLIN
Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet
confinement of your aloneness
to learn
anything or anyone
that does not bring you alive
is too small for you.
David Whyte
This is my supplementary blog in which I will post entries written for prompts.
September 9, 2015 at 3:12pm September 9, 2015 at 3:12pm
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Prompt: I think of Scarbough Fair as a Medieval Fair, not just a song. What do you think a Medieval Fair was like?
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I don’t like imagining stuff about the past, if there is some historical data available, and in this case, a lot of historical data exists.
Historically, a medieval fair was a market with buyers and sellers. The church organized most of those, making the medieval fairs something to attend to because of their religious connotations. Some of those fairs were held to honor certain saints, and due to that belief, contests and archery tournaments were held and singers, musicians, and acrobats entertained the merchants and shoppers. -–As an aside, I think if people really wanted to honor a saint, they should have begun by fixing their innards and refraining from fights and wars.  --
As to the place itself, Scarborough is a seacoast town in England founded by Vikings, made famous by Simon and Garfunkel, and later turned into a resort town. It has a castle and all the makings of an English medieval town, subjected to conflicts, sieges, invasions, and civil wars. I am guessing that Simon and Garfunkel probably meant the Seafest held there every year as the Scarborough Fair, unless they were talking of another town possibly in USA, named after the English town, since most any place in USA is named after some other place in the old continent.
Considering what was involved, the real Scarborough fair would have little to do with a medieval fair, since Scarborough Fair song has connotations to sixties’ movements, beliefs, and emotions, whereas a medieval fair’s main goal had to be favoring the church’s welfare, be it holding together the flock or taking a lion’s share from the earnings of the merchants.
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