Category: Life & Nature

A Summer Storm at the Cafe 


 
 
The second day of the year 

And our volatile summer is here 

Things remain the same in our sphere  

The morning was sunny and warm 

But the day soon transforms 

And the afternoon’s dark storm clouds 

Were our thunderous shrouds 

Frankie cuddles up near  

As Thor’s hammer rings loud and clear 




Video Below, Sigur Ros, performing a 3 minute section of their song “Von”, (which means “Hope”)

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Ivor Steven (c) January 2024

Over at Weekly Prompts the Wednesday Challenge is the word; Timing. To visit their fabulous site please click on >> Here … It was bad “Timing” that Frankie and I got caught in the storm this morning …



Thor’s, Boom Crash Opera


 
 
The sky looks like a wall

of blue-stone blocks

Ominous and motionless

With flashes of lightning

Bursting out of the cloud’s

solar plexus

Emblazoned by Thor’s

Thunderous bass drums

His raucous crescendo

Echoed like an aborted,

boom crash opera

Ivor Steven (c) December 2023

A big thank you to VJ Knutson’s poem >> https://vjknutson.org/2023/12/09/varnish/ , for being the inspiration behind my abstract piece today …

Inner Space

my faulty mind cannot find first base

and has slowed down to a snail’s pace

but no matter, in my space

I slide and slither with grace

while everyone’s imitation briefcases

are full of knotted bootlaces

and rushing into cyberspace

searching for “what’s” on third base

Ivor Steven (c) December 2023

Over at Weekly Prompts, the Weekend Challenge is the Word, Contemplate. You may visit their wonderful site by clicking on >> Here. … this afternoon, me and Frankie were “contemplating” when we should go back out in the rain …

Every Day is Perfect  

Perfect one day  

Rainy the next 

Clouds are crying 

Birds are hiding 

Puddles are unifying


 

Saturday afternoon 

The cafe is almost empty  

Frankie’s a shaggy, doggie  

Soaked and soggy 

Oh, it’s raining again 

Heavy fat drops  

No sign of abating

Puddles are migrating 

And we are waiting 

For nature’s sundrops 

Ivor Steven (c) December 2023