Wednesday, January 13, 2021

The Understated Joys of Crows and Bedroom Slippers - poem

 

Lawrence Hall

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The Understated Joys of Crows and Bedroom Slippers

 

The morning lawn is white with frost and mist

And speckled black with a claque of sneaky crows

Bullying the little birds aside for the seeds

Before the squirrels are up to contend for them

 

Into my Christmas slippers I push my feet

Slowly so as not to startle the birds

But they spy me through the window and rustle off

In insolent protest against all men

 

Because their feet are cold and mine are hot

Since I have slippers, and the crows have not!

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