Unexpected Guests

Bilbo Baggins surrounded by unexpected guests

I’m brain dead from grading papers, and the finals are still to come!  That’s my excuse for lacking the imagination to spin a yard about unknown and unexpected guests turning up in my living room, eating cake. - Which was the prompt from The Daily Post today.


I am composing a poem in which the unexpected guests are metaphors… but it’s still percolating.
In the meantime, here are some works of art that depict unexpected guests:

“Unexpected Guests” by August Muller

“Unexpected Guests” by Yana Movchan

and then, here are peregrine falcons, who showed up as unexpected guests at Yorkminster Cathedral. They built a nest and raised their young there:

And then, Harry, Ron, and Hermione arrived as unexpected guests at the home of Xenophilius Lovegood:

Now I am thinking of the difference between a visitor and a guests. What is it?
“Oh, do not ask ‘what is it’ –  let us go and make our visit”   T.S.Eliot