Nature – Page 6 – Ivor.Plumber/Poet

The Field’s Tiny Critters

Please Note: all attached photos are mine and were taken this morning while walking on our nearby community track

Caterpillar and Cricket

Butterfly and Dragonfly

The Ted Wilson Trail and my walking companion ‘Frankie’

The Field’s Tiny Critters

Crickets were wildly bounding

Out of the dry ground cracks

Caterpillars casually crept

Along the winding track

Butterflies did freely flutter

From flower to flower

Dragonflies swiftly swept

Through the tree towers

Whizzing watchfully, hour after hour

Nature’s imperial overseer

For the field’s tiny critters

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Ivor Steven (c) March 2023

This weekend on Weekly Prompts the monthly Colour Challenge for April is: Tricolour . Please go and visit their fabulous site by clicking on > Here
My “tricolour poem” below is about, rainnbows, orbits, and cosmic snow

A special thank you to Mark Ryan for inspiring my imagination, visit his incredible site via this link >> https://havocandconsequence.wordpress.com/2023/03/31/decaying-orbit

Reflection

Like a rainbow

Orbits come and go

Each brilliant arch

Travels a mirrored path

Is our life, a rainbow’s

Reflection upon cosmic snow

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Ivor Steven (c) March 2023

Her Last Rainbow (a Haiku)

This months poetry assignment at Coffee House Writers is to read the traditional Japanese writer, Matsuo Basho’s 10 top Haiku, and then try to write a Traditional style Haiku. I think my Haiku here might get me a ‘pass’ for the assignment …

Her Last Rainbow (a Haiku)

Etched upon greyness

Behind fluffy nimbus clouds

Her last rainbow glowed

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Peppercorn Road (a Double Haiku)

As usual, during our morning walkie, I take numerous photos, and sometimes the iPhone pic’s instantly inspires a visual idea and later helps prompt me to write about those thoughts … This afternoon I created two Haiku, and then I thought they would be suited to be coupled as one piece.
So, here are my photos and the associated ‘Double Haiku’

Peppercorn Road (a Double Haiku)

Above and below

The ancient peppercorn tree

New branches do grow

Bird on a Light-pole

Above the bitumen road

Where trees do not grow

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The Universe Below

The Universe Below

Here, on top of the mountain

I am looking down

Upon their granular hill

I kneel on the ground

They take no notice of me

Too preoccupied and busy

The industrious workers

Carrying morsels of food

And the dutiful army

Diligently protecting the colony

Hiding in the catacombs’

Universe of tunnels and caves

There, nesting within the earth’s milky ways

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Ivor Steven (c) March 2023

Pending, Not Pretending (a Tanka)

The storm’s naked clouds

Wore two shades of gloomy grey

Enshrouding nature’s

Latent thunderous outburst

An electric light display

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Sunset, A Moment in Time

On Weekly Prompts the Wednesday Challenge is the word: Wait. Please visit their fabulous site by clicking on >> Here
My poem below is about ‘Waiting’ for the sunset.

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

sunset!

7.35 pm

click!

picture perfect

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Ivor Steven (c) March 2023