This weekend the Word/Photo Challenge for the monthly Colour Challenge, and for February the colour is Grey! (gray)… If you wish to join in the fun, go over and visit the Weekly Prompt’s site, by clicking >> Here
Today, I’ve attached two photos of our friendly grey marsupials, the Kangaroo’s and Koala’s. I’m afraid most of our marsupials have suffered massive losses during the horrendous bushfires this summer…..but I’m happy to report that most of the fire affected areas, have received significant amounts of rain today……and so my revised poem “Five Shades of Grey” is suitably appropriate for today’s welcome weather conditions…..
Five Shades of Grey
Daylight turns into night
Ravens scatter in mid-flight
Dark clouds overlay
Into five shades of grey
Thor’s hammer roars
His spark of fire, soars
Fiercely a flaming bolt strike’s
Piercing frightened psyches
Ivor Steven (c) Jan 2020
Your poem a sad one for the nature which was burnt in the fires, the fires left everything charred, grey or smokey white. The video very atmospheric.
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Your animal photos are really lovely, and your poem remains just perfect! Thank you so much Ivor 🙂
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My pleasure Sue, I’ve just woken up, the sky is still grey and still showery…. Yeah 💙🌏☁️
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I’m so glad you finally had a wet day and a drop in the searing heat 🙂
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Thank you Sue, it’s definitely eased the situation, and it’ll give the fire-fighters some much needed respite. 💙🌏☁️
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Poignant, timely poem! Well-expressed!
I just sit and cry when I think about all of the animals that suffered, died, have a painful recovery period to go through. 😦
Continued prayers for the rain! Rain only comes from the grey…so, YAY, grey day!
HUGS!!! 🙂
PS…I love that song!
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Oh wow, “Lake of Tears”, not a well known band, but were big in Europe, a heavy metal band from Sweden, and lyrically they play some great ballads.
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Like this song of theirs…….To Blossom Blue
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It’s so cool on YouTube how we can listen to music from all over the world! 🙂
Thank you for sharing this song! Perfect song for a cold night.
And it’s wonderful how the grey days help us appreciate the yellow, blue, green, and other color days. 🙂
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Yeah… the different colours of life, are reflected in the different sounds of music…… we listen too….
I’m writing a poem at the moment, that’s slowly coming together…. and I’ve chosen another great classic song from ‘Lake of Tears’…. anyhow here’s the Video/song, quite a dramatic song, and my poem’s heading that way…….
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I’m glad you are getting rain over there!
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Over Saturday and Sunday morning we had more than an 1″ of rain…….Yeah … 💙🌏
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Thank goodness!
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