© irene waters 2018
© irene waters 2018
Dawn breaks softly
Awakening from Sleep
The setting sun
is not so quietly gone
Fiery, golds and pinks
Did it have a bad day?
No.
Just leaving memories
that aren’t so quickly gone.
© irene waters 2018
© irene waters 2018
© irene waters 2018
© irene waters 2018
© irene waters 2018
© irene waters 2018
© irene waters 2018
© irene waters 2018
© irene waters 2018
© irene waters 2018
© irene waters 2018
© irene waters 2018
In response to Weekly Photo Challenge
About Irene Waters 19 Writer Memoirist
I began my working career as a reluctant potato peeler whilst waiting to commence my training as a student nurse. On completion I worked mainly in intensive care/coronary care; finishing my hospital career as clinical nurse educator in intensive care. A life changing period as a resort owner/manager on the island of Tanna in Vanuatu was followed by recovery time as a farmer at Bucca Wauka. Having discovered I was no farmer and vowing never again to own an animal bigger than myself I took on the Barrington General Store. Here we also ran a five star restaurant. Working the shop of a day 7am - 6pm followed by the restaurant until late was surprisingly more stressful than Tanna. On the sale we decided to retire and renovate our house with the help of a builder friend. Now believing we knew everything about building we set to constructing our own house. Just finished a coal mine decided to set up in our backyard. Definitely time to retire we moved to Queensland. I had been writing a manuscript for some time. In the desire to complete this I enrolled in a post grad certificate in creative Industries which I completed 2013. I followed this by doing a Master of Arts by research graduating in 2017. Now I live to write and write to live.
Reflections and Nightmares- Irene A Waters (writer and memoirist) 
Very nice captures . I have so many favorites in this set .
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I’m glad you enjoyed them. You can tell I’m not often up for dawn but sunsets I love.
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A beautiful gentle poem with spectacular images. Mother Nature sure knows how to put on a show.
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Thanks Miriam. Yes you can’t get more spectacular than that which nature can display.
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Your poem gives me the (good) shivers. And your photos are beautiful. I shall try to return later to look at them again.
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Thank you Val. that is a lovely comment and you are welcome whenever you have the time.
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I like this one. I don’t like a lot of the verses posted on blogs because most are done badly but this was nice. I particularly like the use of the phrase “breaks softly” because it’s a contradiction in terms that works so well here. Thank you for all the photos, too. Lovely.
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Thanks Corina and for giving me that feedback. I had focused on the light of dawn as opposed to the light of sunset and I hadn’t thought of the contradiction in terms but you are right. Thank you for pointing it out and really glad you enjoyed it.
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What a gorgeous collage!
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Thank you Charli.
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