Month: August 2023

Mirage! (a Haiku)

Image by Joe from Pixabay

Over at “Moonwashed Musings!” The Weekly Prompt is the above Featured Image and the words – Somehow-cozy … Please visit Eugi’s wonderful site by clicking on >> HERE …



Mirage! (a Haiku)


Golden tree, so bright

Are you my savior’s light?

Or! Today’s mirage







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Ivor Steven (c) August 2023

These Days, Haunt Me




Levering my leg like an old toad 

I stumble and bumble 

Along my yellow-brick road 

But I will not crash or crumble 


Floundering, unbalanced, and unsteady 

From a thumping migraine in my head 

Piercing my eyeballs 

With unfeathered darts 

That continually find their mark 


My neurosurgeon calls them  

“Post-stroke fatigue moments” 

Four years on! 

They haunt me like “Jaws” 

With the go button stuck on pause 

But fortunately, after two days rest 

I am back to my normal alien best  







Ivor Steven (c) August 2023

Burning the Fears

Over at Weekly Prompts, the word: Backwards is the Weekend Challenge. Please visit their fabulous site by clicking on >> Here. – Below, I followed Sue’s suggestion and went “Backwards” through my files and found this intriguing piece from September 2017
Featured Image: Artwork, by Kerri Costello, Graphic Design Artist, my amazing niece/second cousin, who lives in Philadelphia, and I think this was the first design that she created for my poetry website.


Burning the Fears


I’m frightened, and too scared to show my face

And knowingly, I’m arriving late

The ghouls are spying from the hill

And lower fools are poisoning her will

Underneath her, a wicker complete

Above, she’s suspended from a stake

The bonfires started, against the rules

And the crowds rejoicing, as the fire drools

Waiting agog, for her garments to ignite

The flames are crackling below her tonight

And the mob’s listening for her ungodly screams

But there’s not a whimper! Within she beams

And secretly, I see her black cat’s drowning tears

Are extinguishing all her burning fears






Ivor Steven (c) August 2023

True

“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.” – Albert Einstein





True




If there is something

I could do

I would do anything

To save you

Mother Nature, you are everything

I look up to

My words are nothing

Compared to you

You are the orchestrator of things

With a balcony view








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Ivor Steven (c) August 2023

Throwback Friday, The Reincarnation of a Pumpkin

Today I am presenting another poem that will be appearing in my new book “Until Eyes Hear Sound”. I wrote ‘The Reincarnation of a Pumpkin’ in October 2020, and the poem will be the opening piece in the Weird Section, of Chapter 9. Humour, Fantasy, Faeries, and Weird.

 


The Reincarnation of a Pumpkin


My locked bubble is about to go boom

A year I’ve been a stranger in my own tomb

Under a pumpkin lid, hiding my gloom

Where my world was a rotting cave of doom




Now these orange walls are my life-giving womb

Being reborn like a smiling old groom

I’m breaking away from the master’s dead blooms

Escaping on the green witch’s magical broom




Flying over the full moon of autumn

Where I’ll be able to wear my mask and costume

Hidden under my orange Kaftan from Khartoum

And I’ll invade the newsrooms, and the children’s bedrooms








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Ivor Steven (c) August 2023

Our Clear Blue Cookie Jar

Over at Weekly Prompts, the Wednesday Challenge is: Cookie Jars … please visit their fabulous site by clicking on >> Here … Below is my Metaphorical response to the Prompt.


Our Clear Blue Cookie Jar


Like a springtime butterfly

I brightly fluttered outside

Immediately the blue neon sky

Illuminated my clear blue cookie jar

Full of nature’s dazzling delights


Looking through the crystal glass

I saw green leafed trees

Swinging in the breeze

I heard their wooden heartbeats

Singing about how the forest faeries

Big clear blue jar of cookies

Were to be shared by all adversaries

Who needed their earthly remedies

To become compassionate goodies







Ivor Steven (c) August 2023

Freedom is for the Birds

My poem today is created from comments that I posted to other poets sites. in response to their creative poems. The fellow writers in Stanza order are …
1. Sadje >> https://lifeafter50forwomen.com/2023/08/04/when-eyes-confuse-the-mind-a-pantoum/
2. Grace >> https://graceofthesun.com/unchained-2/
3 & 4. Bart >> https://bartbarkerpoet.com/2023/08/14/dive/


Freedom is for the Birds




What to believe 

What our eyes see 

Or what our mind needs




In freedom, our hearts glide with pride 

In chains, our souls cower and hide



 
Is freedom only for the Birds?

Humans, I am lost for words 

Their main appetite is greed 

Without planting any seeds 



Is Freedom still possible?

Or a mission impossible









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Ivor Steven (c) August 2023

Above the Flames (Revised)

A poem I originally wrote in November 2019 during the devastating bushfires that were engulfing Australia … due to recent tragic events, I am presenting a revised version today …



Above the Flames (Revised)



Mother nature has decided

Humans!

You’ve been given eons of time

Humans!

You’ve held the torch, but failed to see the light


Our Mother

Is rekindling her furnace

She’s back-burning her own forests

Projecting black smoke signals

Obvious messages, to feel, hear and see


Yes Father

Where there is smoke, there is fire

She’s furious, and our planet’s ablaze


Sisters and Brothers

Feel her scorching heat

Blistering your swollen feet

Hear her crackling explosions

Piercing your deafened eardrums

See her soaring flames

Blinding your greedy eyes


Humans!

There’s no point, looking up to the sky

Seeking your saviour in heaven

You are not in charge

Abandon your selfish barrage


Our Mother

Controls your clouds and rain

It’s time to show her Kindness, and end your pain







Ivor Steven (c) August 2023

My Mind Meanders (a Tanka)

I’ve done lots of meandering today and now I need to have a doggie nap




My Mind Meanders (a Tanka)


On our morning trail

Where beginnings never end

Imagination

Meanders around each bend

Conscious of nature’s haven








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Perceptions is Now Available via:

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Ivor Steven (c) August 2023