YOUR POEMS

TOO SOON by John Hyde, of Chellaston Easter eggs on sale at New Year? anything to jump the gun,

It’s getting quite confusing When all is said and done.

TV ads for Christmas hampers, Start now, 11 months to go, Take the weight off waiting,

It all makes sense, you know. We see Christmas mas cards in August,

It gets much sooner every year, There’s tinsel in the shops in town. Well, I just find that queer. Then pumpkins, scary ghosties, Lots of Guys and ghouls, Must keep the public spending, We fall for it like fools.

Buy your cards a little early, Shop now and beat the rush, Every year, most shops in autumn, Giving things that “festive push”. Leaflets with weekend papers Offering booze at Christmas rates, Blimey! It’s just September, Months to go – but no-one waits. High streets are all struggling, Sadly, that’s all too clear,

But do they need to sell their stuff So much earlier every year?

MYSTERY OBJECT by Susan Booth, of Kilburn Humming Over Darkened Skies Flickering Rainbow Enhanced

Qualities Of Northern Lights It’s Speed Changes Characteristics Plate Shape Adorning Steak Pie Vehicle From Other Worlds Entranced

Holding Our Attention We Wonder Why

Are You Cosmic Masters ? Journeying The Universe Creating Strange Draft Thousands Of Miles High Bewitched

Dare We Mention Sightings Unbelievable Convention Extraterrestrial Intelligence Gleaming Alien Spacecraft Skimming Earth’s Stratosphere Sublime

Are You Selfless , Warless Friendly , Voiceless ? Proceeding Swiftly Churchill Cigar Like Harmonious Illuminated Victory Sign Hopefully Harmless Perhaps Psychic , Telepathic Created By Intuition

Pure Logic

Where You Survive

On Higher Plane Darting Through Moonlight You Curiously Appear

Will We Ever See You Again So Near