Geranium (Ruby), Bougainvillea (Jazzi), and Begonia (Dragon Wing Red)
Bromeliads, Billbergia nutan (Tears of Joy), and Neoregelia Medusa
Colourful Anomalies
I am pondering, like Rodin’s “The Thinker” We are in the second week of winter And here I perceive among my courtyard flowers Several unseasonal anomalies Maybe it’s because my garden is enclosed And sheltered from winter’s winds and frosts Whatever the reason, nature has been well-disposed Toward my plant’s colourful displays Of Geranium, Bougainvillea, Begonia, and Bromeliads
Hi everyone, thank you for your lovely messages of encouragement and support for my winter surprise package, “Theo the Tomato Tree.” I’m pleased to report that Mother Nature has been very kind. With lots of nutritional overnight rain and a good night’s rest, Theo is looking extremely healthy this morning.
Over at Weekly Prompts, the Weekend Challenge is the monthly Colour Challenge, and for June, they selected the colour Blue. To visit their fabulous site, please click on Here Today, my Tanka is about Rainbows, and there’s Blue in a rainbow
Winter’s Rainbows (a Tanka)
Autumn waves goodbye Winter winds and gloomy skies Inundate our eyes Despite the icy, hard rain Rainbows shine, and do not cry
I have been focusing on sunsets lately, so appropriately, my Throwback Friday poem is a ‘Sunset’ verse that I wrote in March 2023. However, please note that all images in today’s post were taken this evening.
Sunset, A Moment in Time
here I stand waiting I see clouds lifting paddocks shimmering
here I stand camera in hand waiting for that pivotal moment where the edge of time implodes
here I see the golden sun and a tree-lined horizon majestically collide
Hello, dear readers and followers. As you might know, I stopped producing my “Tullawalla Booklets” at # 31 because that was the house number of our family’s Tullawalla Homestead. However, the booklet format is a superb way for me to catalogue the vast number of poems I produce, and as the saying goes, “I Am Turning Another Page”. Here I have begun a new series of poem booklets, called “Shangri La”, the name of my little Villa, and it is my piece of “earthly paradise, a retreat from the pressures of modern civilization”. I now have “2004” Poems filed in these booklet formats!! (On my bookshelf, I have “The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, which contains 1775 poems … when I first started writing poems, I never envisaged that I would produce so many poems)
Click on >> Here, for the link to your FREE: PDF Copy of“Shangri La, Volume 14, Purple Tomato Tree”
And over at Weekly Prompts, it’s the last weekend of the month and time for their One Day Prompt! To visit their fabulous site, please click on > Here
A Technical Knockout
When you’re down and out feeling like a dry river-bed trout flipping around after an endless drought And you’re in the vacant corner of another losing bout There’ll be one day, without doubt you’ll have nothing left to shout about
Please, I beg, one last Guinness stout before I get kicked in the spout by Trump’s next lockout roundabout
After the ruthless rout, when I blacked out I was told by a local layabout “there was no doubt, the decision was a Technical Knockout”
Feature Image: Please note that my copy of the Geelong Writers Inc. Anthology 2024 was signed by the editor, Judy Rankin, and Judy is also the publisher/editor of my 3 books, Tullawalla, Perceptions, and Until Eyes Hear Sound.
A New Anthology (a Tanka)
Through rain, hail, or shine I am the messenger bird I’ve important news About the Anthology Don’t let the wires clip my wings
And here is my poem from the Geelong Writers Inc. Anthology
Ivor.Plumber/Poet 