Throwback Friday, There’s a Penguin In My Courtyard, by Ivor Steven

JANUARY 13, 2023 / IVOR20 / >> http://godoggocafe.com/2023/01/13/throwback-friday-theres-a-penguin-in-my-courtyard-by-ivor-steven/

Today I was prompted to revise my poem from June 2020, because I had just received a lovely hand-designed “Penguin Christmas Card” from my Philadelphia cousin.

There’s a Penguin In My Courtyard (Revised)

my courtyards a frozen pond

cold enough for a penguin

shards of ice lay upon the ground

and a crisp sharpness cuts the sound

of frost covered songbirds unsilenced

as fernery fronds curl in glaciated defiance

in the corner hangs a frigid spider’s web

above the crystlised succulent flower bed

and in a white sky the sun’s ambient saffron disc

again predicts that golden dawns do exist

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Ivor Steven (c) January 2023