homework for June 2025 - WINTER WONDERING

[Maureen K Clifford]

WINTER WONDERING … Maureen Clifford © The #ScribblyBarkPoet


Be you two legged or four legged of one thing I’m sure
a blanket on a cold night is a comfort; helps endure
the cold that creeps into one’s bones with great rapidity –
reminding one of Mother Nature’s cool frigidity.

Westerly winds that whip and whine and find each errant path,
they sneak through gaps in walls and floors and find you as you bath.
Raise pimples on your skin that emerge everywhere you look
until your skin resembles that of a freshly plucked chook.

An early morning sojourn met with gasps of sheer dismay
when you realize your windscreen bears Jack Frost’s latest display.
The fern frost patterned windscreen is a beauty to behold.
But the crunch of frosted grass beneath your feet tells you it’s cold.

Australians are lucky, unlike some. Winters are mild
in the main, though snow does visit, delighting every child.
Some states just receive sunshine and so winter never rates –
our Southern Land, so vast. Climate changes from state to state.

Soon shorter days and longer nights will do a full reverse
as summer seeks to soothe our shores with sunshine and submerse
us all in flooding rains and cyclones, maybe fire and drought.
Our country is one of contrasts – of that there is no doubt.

A poet many years ago wrote words that don’t get old.
Of the love she had of country – her loved land of Rainbow Gold.
An opal-hearted country from its winters through to spring ….
She was right and I too love it, for to me – it’s everything.


08.06.2025

[Terry]

G/day Maureen

I can relate to all of that.
While snow is a real rarity over here, I have managed to have brief encounters over east and in Tassie.
I also ran into really cold weather in Canada when I was there.

You have captured the chilly winter feeling well and bought back a few memories as well.

Terry

[Maureen K Clifford]

Thanks Terry for your kind words Much appreciated