And I Wonder Why

Over at Weekly Prompts, the Wednesday Challenge is: Perspective … to visit their fabulous site, please click on >> Here … And my poem below is a metaphorical perspective between “nature’s serenity and our wild wars”





And I Wonder Why


On a windless winter morn

I am walking beside the wave-less bay

Watching the white wispy clouds

Wandering above the whispering trees


And I am wondering why

Our worried and weeping world

Wantonly wastes time

On unworthy and wearisome wars





“Esmerelda”, a wonderfully dramatic song by Ben Howard






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Ivor Steven (c) June 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.

29 thoughts on “And I Wonder Why”

  4. I can echo Lois’s words and everyone else’s here.

    Citizens everywhere, the ones who keep our world ticking over, don’t want a war, yet they are continually imposed on us by those who relish power. 🙂

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    1. Thank you very much Nancy … I just happened to be listening to Ben Howard’s fabulous song when I was writing. and I thought ‘Why Not this one’ …🎼🤗🌏😍

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  10. With the skies so blue, and the, clouds so white, it’s, quite, difficult that, with everything, so, seemingly peaceful in your neck of the woods, that in other parts of the world, serious wars, caused by man, natural disasters are, happening, at the same time of beauty and, peace in your part of the, world.

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  11. I think wars are fought because in our DNA there lies dormant an extiction factor that propels humanity toward annihilation. We are all innocent dupes in this battle for survival.

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