Today’s Slate-Grey Sky





Today’s Slate-Grey Sky

Dark as tomorrow’s blackboard
Dreary as a bitumen road

Dim like a bat’s cave
Dull like Santa’s razor blade

Dingy and dankly humid
Dowdy as a politician’s banal promise

Dawn to dusk
Daylight has lost its shine
Dethroned by a dusty slate-grey sky










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Ivor Steven (c) November 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.

21 thoughts on “Today’s Slate-Grey Sky”

  5. Dynamic!
    The word-pictures you’ve created in your poem are so vivid, so powerful, so emotion-filled, Ivor!
    Often a grey sky day reminds me to slow down and feel the peace…and to remember to always have sunshine in my heart. 🙂 The world can be wintery, but I can share the spring! 🙂
    (((HUGS))) ❤️🌞❤️

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    1. Thank you for your thoroughly generous and kind words, Carolyn … I’ve slept in and the slate-grey shy greets my awakening … maybe the sun will reappear this afternoon on the way to my Geelong Writers monthly dinner/social event … we are launching our biannual anthology “Anomaly Street” and I’m happy to say, one of my poems made the edition… and I’ll post that story tomorrow 🤗📘🌏💕😍🐶🎶

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