Over at Weekly Prompts, the Wednesday Challenge is: GARDEN ART. You may visit their fabulous site by clicking on the Link >> Here .. and the poem below is my response to their Prompt
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Today’s poem is one I wrote back in November/December 2019, at a time when bushfires were raging across vast areas in every Australian State …
Astronauts to the Resue
The night sky’s hazily stark
Black space debris fills the dark
No bright street globes are in sight
What happened to the starry, starry night?
No faerie lights, nor sparkle dust
Only smoky charring of the earth’s crust
Rescuing astronauts were sent into the atmosphere
They were last seen drifting pass Jupiter
Will they ever stop fighting the desert crusades?
Modern lifeguards are still lying about those charades
Of ravaging the forests, and sinking refugee boats
While Negroes from the Ivory Coast are only eating burnt toast
Ivor Steven (c) Nov/Dec 2019
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…
Last night I attended the Geelong Writers Inc. monthly dinner/get together, which also featured the Book Launch of their new bi-annual Chapbook, Anomaly Street, and if you read the photo/scans attached below, you will understand my excitement of being selected in this outstanding collection of poetry with a difference, that creates jolts for flatlined minds ..