Stalking the Wards (a Tanka)

A poem I wrote in response to Derrick Knight’s article about “Clearing Up After Storm Gerrit” >> https://derrickjknight.com/2024/01/03/clearing-up-after-storm-gerrit/

Please Note: All photos in my post today were originally taken by Derrick Knight, and I have ‘cropped’ the ones below to fit my article





Stalking the Wards (a Tanka)




After the wild storm

Nature wears her old matron’s

Reigning uniform

Staying to stalk the ward’s lawns

And nurse flora back to norm








Ivor Steven (c) January 2024

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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.

24 thoughts on “Stalking the Wards (a Tanka)”

  6. Oh, Ivor! What a wonderful, important, powerful trio…Derrick’s photos, your poem, and that song/vid!
    We should all do a MUCH better job of being kind, compassionate, dedicated, and nurse-ly to our world/nature.
    (((HUGS))) 🌏💚🌍💙🌎

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