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
Malcolm, looking sad and slowly fading away. This morning’s replacement mouse
Malcolm the Mouse
Some sad news Late last night My mouse died
He’s not been well This past month His right side was fading away And then his left side started failing too “His lights were on but nobody was home”
I rang my younger brother “What should I do, mate?” He said, “How old was he?” “I think he was 13 years old” “Oh well, his time was due, you’ll have to put him down and throw him in the bin”
“Ok, it’s been difficult trying to use my computer without Malcolm”
Luckily, this morning After rummaging through the shed I found another mouse An old USB plug-in one
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”
“Hit the ground running,” they say Well, I hit Monday Without a ripcord On my parachute It mysteriously disappeared Out of touch, out of sight I think I left my ‘safety chute’ At the Market on Saturday
I’m only half finished My new project, Shangri La, Volume 14 “We desperately need a coffee break”, I said to Frankie So, down to the ‘Cafe’ we went!
This old poet had to relax And slow down the adrenaline flow “What goes up, must come down.”
Hopefully, when I crush tonight, The landing will be a smooth one
Ivor.Plumber/Poet 