Looming



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LOOMING

If one is five foot three

It is impossible to

Loom.

To loom one must be at least six foot three

With an abnormally large head.

Another essential is darkness.

Whoever heard of anyone

Looming

On a sunny day?

It pays to be indistinct too.

Try to have hands that appear

Huge and claw-like

With a hint of dried blood

In the nails.

Make sure you are in shadow

Before you loom.

One always has to loom out of something.

Your victim should be supine.

It is impossible to

Loom

Over someone halfway up a ladder.

Silence is essential.

Loomers have tried creaks and groans,

But the classiest loomers are

Always silent.

Let your victim hear her own tortured breathing.

Stout loomers

Aways have more success

Than skinny ones.

There is always the threat of suffocation.

Bulk

Is an added

Frightener.

Loomers should practise

Imperceptible movements.

The approach should be definite,

But smooth,

Noiseless,

Almost slippery.

At the last moment

Allow yourself

A saturnine laugh.

I hope I have been some help

To would-be loomers.

And, again,

Do not attempt looming

If you are five foot three.

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Margaret Gosden

HARVEST MOON?

Margaret publishes her Harvest Moon....I'd forgotten it existed!

Of all my memories of 'home', this one had not persisted.

Yet now I vaguely do recall I saw this years ago,

A moon belonging to Autumn, honey-coloured, hanging low.

But now I see it differently, the reason being because

I now see the self-same moon  hanging in the skies of Oz.

And it cannot be a harvest moon, because, with us, it's Spring,

And so the harvest concept is just a local thing.

There's nothing special about the moon ; we just clothe it with our dreams.

A Harvest Moon is just a moon, quite  run-of-the-mill it seems.

One thing is certain, it seems to me......one thing is clearly clear;

We see the world quite differently in the Southern Hemisphere!

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