Nature – Page 8 – Ivor.Plumber/Poet

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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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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Dragonfly, Nature’s Guardian Eye

Featured Images: I am thrilled to say that the attached photos are mine, and they are my first-ever successful photographs of Dragonflies …

Dragonfly, Nature’s Guardian Eye

Long before homo sapiens overachievers

You were the swamp’s incorruptible believer

Overseer of the planet’s rivers and valleys

The weary world’s ardent ally

Long before the floundering Ark

You were our wisest Monarch

Overseer of the forest’s unpolluted sky

Nature’s sprightly guardian eye

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Breath Taking

For Sammi Cox’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Breathtaking

Breath Taking

Who’ll be left

To do the colouring in?

And breathe in the new oxygen?

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Bird on a Post (a Haiku)

Birds, instinctively

Alert to all imposters

Especially me

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Butterflies Before Sunset

Butterflies Before Sunset

Throughout my morning walk

There was a kaleidoscope

Of white butterflies

Fluttering over the track’s grassy verges

Smiling to myself

I thought of the nervous butterflies

Invading my inner system recently

Nothing serious

My tummy’s flickering on a high

Impatiently waiting for a golden sunset

To reignite my weary poetic eyes

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I Do (a Haiku)

I wrote a haiku

Before the world had seen you

Why are you so blue?

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Nature Remembers (a Haiku)

Nature Remembers (a Haiku)

The red lily blooms

In February each year

Memories of you

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Dust In My Eye

Above Artwork: By my niece, Kerri Costello

Dust In My Eye

I felt gravity’s pressure drop

When I noticed time had stopped

There, beyond our gray sky

Sunlight was beginning to die

Is Doomsday plunging into our sty?

Or, has future’s dust inhabited my eye

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