An Old Plumber, An Ex-Carer, An Amateur Poet, Words From The Heart
A Luxury of Green, Xanadu
This weekend the Saturday challenge from Weekly Prompts, and their monthly colour challenge for April is: Xanadu. Please go and visit their fabulous site by clicking > HERE
Above Images: Photos from my fernery, of the Philodendron Xanadu.
A Luxury of Green, Xanadu: A Cinquain* poem
Ancient
Kubla Khan times
A Palace of beauty
Mystical Xanadu city
Did thrive
*A Cinquain is 5 lines: Line 1: 2 syllables Line 2: 4 syllables Line 3: 6 syllables Line 4: 8 syllables Line 5: 2 syllables
And here’s my favourite “Green” song, Leonard Cohen’s ‘Leaving Green Sleeves’
G'day, and welcome to my blog site. My name is Ivor Steven, I live in Geelong, Australia. I'm an ex-industrial chemist, and a retired plumber, and a former Carer of my wife(Carole), for 30 years, who suffered from severe MS. I Write poetry about those personal thoughts, throughout and beyond my life as a Carer.
I've been blogging for over 2 years, and writing poems for 19 years. Of course a lot of my poems are about my favourite subject Carole, but since I've been blogging my writings have become quite varied, humourous, mystical, observational, and even a few monster/horror poems.
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23 thoughts on “A Luxury of Green, Xanadu”
Ivor, you more than fulfilled this challenge, thank you.
I enjoyed Leonard but it didn’t sound like him!
Perhaps his voice changed has he got older!
🙂
Thank you, it was a fascinating prompt, and that was first ever Cinquain… I did a bit of research on Xanadu. On google look up ‘Marco Polo’s Description of Xanadu’
It’s a fascinating read, his description of Xanadu is awesome 💙🌏📖
My pleasure Peter….. I got myself Leonard Cohen’s new album for Christmas…..”Thanks For The Dance”…his son Adam produced it from Leonard’s works he’d done before died…. The whole CD is sensational ……
Ivor.Plumber/Poet 
Ivor, you more than fulfilled this challenge, thank you.
I enjoyed Leonard but it didn’t sound like him!
Perhaps his voice changed has he got older!
🙂
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That was first every Cinquain
… I had a bit of trouble with it, but I think the poem worked OK..
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It worked perfectly, Ivor – you did well! 😀
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Thank you Sue, you make me feel better… the format didn’t give me much room for those big words.
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You should be proud of all you achieve 😊
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It was interesting for me. And I learnt where the historical site of Xanadu was in Mongolia.
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Now I didn’t know that!
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Yep, I looked it all up when I was sourcing the featured image… From what I read it was a magnificent place.
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Google.. Marco Polo’s description of Xanadu 😊
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Okay
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He was 46 when he recorded this song!
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Thank you, Peter
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Typo – AS he got older!
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interesting take on this, beautiful, ivor
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Thank you Beth, I enjoyed doing the research for this poem. ☺️🤗🌏
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What a wonderful post, Ivor! 🙂
Love the xanadu colour AND Xanadu place!
Beautiful poem, photos, and Mr. Cohen! You know I love Mr. Cohen!
(((HUGS))) 🙂
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Thank you, it was a fascinating prompt, and that was first ever Cinquain… I did a bit of research on Xanadu. On google look up ‘Marco Polo’s Description of Xanadu’
It’s a fascinating read, his description of Xanadu is awesome 💙🌏📖
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Leonard Cohen – such a loss -and this is a great song. Thanks for the fine cinquain and the green sleeves
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My pleasure Peter….. I got myself Leonard Cohen’s new album for Christmas…..”Thanks For The Dance”…his son Adam produced it from Leonard’s works he’d done before died…. The whole CD is sensational ……
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I’ll go check it out…
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You will not be disappointed….
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pretty! And awesome words!
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Thank you Carol, a colourful piece of fantasy. 😁🐧
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