At Weekly Prompts, the Weekend Challenge is the word, Discovery. Please go over and visit their fabulous site by clicking >> Here … and my poem below is in response to their prompt


Winter Sun
What my careless eyes perceived
My unprepared senses
Soon discovered, they were deceived
The day appeared sunny enough for a stroll
And I ventured into the afternoon cold
Ten steps out, a glacial wind took hold
The sharp Antarctic blast
Snapped every limb within grasp
My breath turned into icy glass
My ears were stabbed by frigid darts
My cheeks were slapped by gloves of frozen brass
And the winter sun failed to warm my heart



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Ivor Steven (c) July 2023

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We are having the opposite problem, Ivor. Record high temperatures here! Maybe we should take a vacation to an area with more moderate temperatures! 🙂
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Thank you Cheryl … here it’s the wind chill factor … and it’s going to be the same today, our walkies are quite a task … but we will still go 🤗🌏😊🥶🐶
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AW. 🥶❄️💧🌨💙
Always good to see, and feel, the sun on freezy winter days. 🌞
And to count on those people, and things, that CAN warm our hearts. 🙂 ☕️🐶🧣🧤🔥 ❤️
(((HUGS))) ❤️❤️
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Another cold and blowy one this morning… but we will still venture out for our walkie … we both rug up like eskimos 🤗🌏🐶🥶💙
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Wow, you’re experiencing our winters. 🙂
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The wind is freezing Sue … 🌎🤗
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😶🌫️ I wonder if you’ll get snow
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Very rare to snow in Geelong because we are by the bay and not far from the sea … my mum said it snowed when I born “72” years ago … 🥶🌏😍
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Always windy on the coast.
Snowed the day I was born too. my dad walked over twelve miles to my aunt’s house (where i was born) carrying a sack of coal on his back because the coal wagon couldn’t get through the thick snow!
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Wow … tough times … haha we both snow bunnies 🤗😉
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.. appreciating the warmth of the day here – enjoyed the chilly read though , thanks Ivor 🙂
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Thank you Lori for appreciating my poem 🌏🤗
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I hope Frankie’s walk was quick
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He had his coat on, he was ok … I was shivering 🥶
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I am a winter baby, and I miss living by the sea – thank you for the wonderful reminders
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My mum said it snowed here in Geelong when I was born …
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I was born midwinter, but don’t really remember there being snow on any of my birthdays, normall before or after.
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