Djinn and Tonic

By luigi_pagano

Thu, 31 Oct 2024
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The Sahara desert, on Halloween,
is haunted by the ghost of a Beduin.
He's not evil but a benevolent djinn,
very shy and not keen to be seen.
 
The nomads know he's not demonic;
would share with him a gin and tonic
but the reply to such offer is laconic:
no thanks, spirit makes me catatonic.
 
They are surprised that a spirit might
be abstemious and refuse their invite
especially on a cold Halloween night
with the risk of exposure to frostbite.
 
As the supernatural being is invisible
their gesture can be said to be risible.
Although they can agree in principle,
their spirits are not infinitely divisible.
 
 
 
© Luigi Pagano 2024
Certificate U
Poem
Mutevoli pensieri
Surreal
Humour

Comments

Submitted by Tom Brown on

I like the idea of a halloween spirit can't be seen, and is not always evil. The rhyme scheme is is excsellent. I wonder how you did it?

Quite sophisticated Luigi! Good.

Cheers! Tom

 

Submitted by luigi_pagano on

Thank you, Tom. I am glad you liked it. Now and then I get a daft idea and have some fun writing it down. As it was Halloween I thought I should do a piece for the occasion but instead of placing the spirit in a churchyard, which poets usually do, I decided that he should wander in the desert. All I had to find afterward were suitable rhymes

Best, Luigi

 

Submitted by Di_Hard on

Fabulous rhymes Luigi! Very enjoyable altogether :0) Gave me a strange impression of camels loaded up with cock-tail cabinets trekking across the desert

 

Submitted by luigi_pagano on

Pleased you enjoyed this desert's ramble, Di. Thanks for telling me, I imagined the camels' humps filled with gin. laugh

Cheers.