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July 2023 July 2023
POETRY Summer’s Dream
CORNER Sun to shine
Summer’s sign
The Rimsmoor Pond Scented pine
Monster Life is fine.
Loch Ness may have a monster Clouds appear
as certain fellows state Rain I fear!
but here in quiet Dorset, Change is here
there's a rumour that I'll relate Time to disappear.
about our own great monster,
I'll tell you, if you wait. No need to cower –
Only a shower
Out on the boggy heath, To quench the flower
a place of which I'm fond, Gone in an hour.
they say there is a monster
that swims in Rimsmoor Pond. Sunshine’s beam
Are such rumours really true Wet paths gleam
or have we just been conned? Nature’s scheme
Summer’s dream.
On moonlit summer nights,
when dragonflies are still, Eileen Richardson
a gentle splashing noise
may mask the nightjar trill
when a great back breaks
the surface
of the pond beyond the hill.
Who can say what creature
lurks within that pool?
Does it have benign
intentions,
not malicious, as a rule,
or is it fierce, unfriendly,
so dangerous and very
cruel?
Chris Nother
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