Throwback Friday, The Ancient Fern Survives

Today’s Throwback poem is from June 2022, and is also in my book Perceptions, page 37.

Featured Image Above: by Derrick Knight > https://derrickjknight.com/2022/06/10/rich-pickings/

The Images below: are from my courtyard ..





The Ancient Fern Survives



Selfish, unopened minds remain numbed
False eyelashes are heavy and closed
Botoxed lips are silent and sealed
And elephant ears have been pegged out of sight



But there under our careless feet
The earth’s ferns have agelessly survived
Three hundred and sixty million years
Without changing the appearance of their golden leaves
That timelessly regenerate themselves
By naturally releasing their fertilising spores



https://youtube.com/watch?v=WJ8edDThJ3A%3Fversion%3D3%26rel%3D1%26showsearch%3D0%26showinfo%3D1%26iv_load_policy%3D1%26fs%3D1%26hl%3Den%26autohide%3D2%26wmode%3Dtransparent









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Ivor Steven (c) August 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.

14 thoughts on “Throwback Friday, The Ancient Fern Survives”

  5. Beautiful photos by you and Derrick!
    Fabulous poem, Ivor!
    Wonderful music/vid!
    I’ve love ferns from the first time I saw one as a wee little girl! 🙂 You’ve captured the fascination, amazement, beauty and joy they bring to the earth! 🙂
    (((HUGS))) 💚🌿💚

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  7. Compared to these, ancient, plants, we humans had, changed, evolved in form, but, not so much in our states of minds, these plants are better adapted to continue to exist on the planet than the Homo sapiens species that’s for sure!

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