Violets and a Purple Cyclamen


This Saturday the Weekend Challenge from ‘Weekly Prompts’ is March’s colour,  Purple. Please go over and visit their fabulous site by clicking >> Here. My photos and the below poem is my response to their ‘Monthly Colour Challenge’.



Violets and a Purple Cyclamen



My morning courtyard is aglow

Below the garden’s colourful shadows

Of a newly blooming purple cyclamen

And the forever flowering bougainvillea


They are my sentinels for her hanging basket

Our wedding flower of Drooping Violets

Casting forever memories upon my writing booklet





Ivor Steven (c) March 2021

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G'day, and welcome to my blog site. My name is Ivor Steven, I live in Geelong, Australia. I'm an ex-industrial chemist, and a retired plumber, and a former Carer of my wife(Carole), for 30 years, who suffered from severe MS. I Write poetry about those personal thoughts, throughout and beyond my life as a Carer. I've been blogging for over 2 years, and writing poems for 19 years. Of course a lot of my poems are about my favourite subject Carole, but since I've been blogging my writings have become quite varied, humourous, mystical, observational, and even a few monster/horror poems.

32 thoughts on “Violets and a Purple Cyclamen”

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    1. Yeah… and Dad grew violet at the “Tullawalla” house, when we got married,… ’45’ years ago … and now I’m looking after that same hanging basket 45 years later… 💜💜

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  10. Gorgeous photos! Beautiful poem! Right on song! 🙂
    Purple and it’s many shades have been my fav color since I was a little girl! Purple is royal, and also so calming and so cheery at the same time! 🙂 It always brightens me up! Ha! 🙂
    Carole is in your purple flowering plants as she is in your heart and all of your precious shared memories! 🙂
    (((HUGS))) 🙂
    PS…“The sky is already purple. The first few stars have appeared, suddenly, as if someone had thrown a handful of silver across the edge of the world.” – Alice Hoffman
    “I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.” – Alice Walker, from the novel The Color Purple

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    1. Thank you Carolyn, and Carole always look gorgeous in purple and mauve.. Oh my YouTube show today wasn’t live.. It’ll be on the Prolific Pulse Poetry channel later on sometime?? 💛💜🌏

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