Sonnet For Pair of Egyptian Geese

Sonnet for a Pair of Egyptian Geese Across the icy pond through chilly haze Bewildered but yet with a stoical bearing This couple, never parted, wistfully gaze Can this be the exotic land forebears had their dwelling? Atavistic dreams where great river and desert meet And arid sand is transformed to verdant garden There dhows of timeless design skim neath silken sheet While Sphinx looks on with inscrutable visage spartan But when Spring warms air and water and this land is greening Will they be reassured, there's no need to roam When all winged life is fluttering, dancing and preening See these waters as not alien but truly their home Irony and pun prompt the poet to write with wry smile 'Our dear feathered couple live blissfully - in denial'