I’m posting this poem for, Helene’s Photo prompt week April 2/2019, “What Do You See ?” and I’m also posting on Welcome to Promote Yourself Monday, at Go Dog Go Cafe, and thank you to MidWest Fantasy for the invitation. Check their site out >>Here
Five Shades Of Grey
Daylight turns into night
Ravens scatter in mid-flight
Dark clouds overlay
Five shades of grey
Thor’s hammer roars
His spark of fire, soars
Fiercely a flaming bolt strikes
Piercing frightened psychs
Ivor Steven (c) 2019
Written in response to Helene’s, What do You See, Photo prompt March 26 to April 1, 2019. And I would also like to thank Claudia, of, “Humoring The Goddess”, and her latest article, for also inspiring me to write this post about the fascinating properties of rocks !!, please click >>Here
The photos in my post here, are of Carl Peverall’s stone and rock sculptures, copied from Claudia’s article today….. I’m sure she won’t mind ??
Featured Image Above Left: Carl Peverall, Gift. and, Above Right: Helen’s Photo Prompt
Below: Rodin’s, Thinker Carl Peverall’s, Minstrel The Cemetery Stone Bench
Stone Arches, High In The Sky
Sitting on this old cemetery bench
Judiciously carved from granite
I’m pondering, like Rodin’s Thinker
Observing God’s arches high in the sky
Supported by tall Gothic columns
Laboriously sculptured stone
Etched by annual rain
Burnt under the ancient sun
Shaped by the winds of time
Dully hued, eleven shades of grey
Smooth rocks from past aeon’s
Millenniums cast in aged sand-stone
History encrusted surfaces
Pillars of society, silently solidified
Entombed witnesses of the painful years
The cold graveyard’s, living pyramids
Monuments to new generations
Life’s statues of our lost souls
Immortality and finality achieved
Beyond a shadow of doubt
Their stoic presence
An eternal epitaph
Ivor Steven (c) 2019
Two weeks ago, on Friday 15th I was cleaning out my mailbox, throwing out all those annoying advertising pamphlets, when I happen to notice a little flyer that caught my attention. Yeah ! a book fair to held the next day in the West Geelong Town Hall. I missed last year’s event, and finding the advertisement was a pleasant surprise…. Yes I did go……….Yes I did buy a few books…. Yes the advertising did work… The Weekly Photo Prompt this week is: Advertising
Below: Some of the Poetry books I did discover and subsequently purchased, and I’m sure they’ll make for interesting reading on my flight over to New York…..
Ivor Steven (c) 2019
Weekly Photo Prompt: Featured Image.
Hi dear Helene, I’ve yet to participate in one of your weekly photo prompts, and I found your photo fascinating, and my I wrote this poem for your prompt.
My Neighbour Wasn’t Mowing His Lawn
I saw a sign, painted by His hand
The words, I did not understand
I thought why ? another old brick wall
Ascending the crooked ladder, too afraid to fall
There I stood alone, and stared
Above the galaxy’s glare
My retina’s were burning
Last night’s moon had fallen
And there was no arising dawn
My neighbour wasn’t mowing his lawn
I then saw the universe
Oblivion, in a blade of grass
Ivor Steven (c) 2019
In response to The Weekly Photo Prompt, this weeks prompt is: Walking
I’m on a walking program to get fit for my trip to New York at the end of April. I’ve joined a walking group, via WordPress, the other members live in America, we call ourselves the “Turbo Snails”, and I’ve installed a “step counter app”, on my phone. The aim of the group is to walk every day, and record how many steps we have done, and gradually increase the steps per day, over a weekly period. My first two weeks(almost) have been steady and my progress seems to be increasing. I shall take my chart to my physiotherapist on Monday. The main priority, is for me to consistently undertake the daily walk, and naturally the step count will increase over time. As wobbly as I am, the first two weeks has been a pleasant success, in the context of my progress made so far !! , a total of 27,530 steps…. and on January 1st, that amount seemed an impossible target… I was then struggling to step out of the house…
Ivor Steven (c) 2019
Traditionally every year here in Geelong, the City Council sends out to every house-hold, a Calendar and information booklet. The twelve pictures in the Calendar, are of the local area, taken by local photographers, and the music I’ve added below, is by local performer, Xavier Rudd. Thank you to Weekly Photo Prompts, for this opportunity to present these glorious photos of the Geelong area. Happy New Year to all my readers. And the Calendar itself is a great >> Tradition
Ivor Steven (c) 2018
I’d like to thank Gina, of Singledust, and her glorious poem, ‘last pure light’, on “Go Dog Go Cafe”, for inspiring me to write my poem, ‘The Golden Beach’, please click >> Here, to read her wonderful words. Also referring to this weeks, Weekly Photo Prompt: Tradition, yes it’s an Australian tradition to spend Christmas at the beach
Staring over the ripples in my cuppa tea
Gazing at the future forecast by the tea leaf’s
I’m visualising waves upon the morning sea
And the sensation of the sand beneath my feet
Oh to walk on the golden beach again
Inhale the fragrance of the wind caressing my skin
And to swim in the rejuvenating ocean
Feel the surf’s spray on my body, like warm rain
The tentacles of fresh air draw you in securely
An aura of purity and peace abounds richly
There’s a crispness from the sun that warms your heart
And a cleansing depth within the surrounds that soothes your soul
Ivor Steven (c) 2018
