Throwback Friday, Beyond Sight (a Haiku)


Today’s Throwback Friday poem (originally written in August 2025) is drawn from my upcoming book, Time Hears No Sound. It appears as the first poem in the Haiku section of Chapter 10, Time’s Short Poems: Haiku, Tanka, etc.



Beyond Sight (a Haiku)

Good morning sunrise
I soak in daylight’s caress
Until eyes hear sound





Ivor Steven ©  January 2026

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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.

22 thoughts on “Throwback Friday, Beyond Sight (a Haiku)”

    1. Thank you my friend, sorry I didn’t do any blogging last night, Wednesday isn’t a good day for me. I have my CHW commitments and then I got stuck on a poem that I might be good enough for next week’s CHW submission, and then I collapsed in heap … everything just caught up with me … 📖🥰🌏😴

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      2. We are up and about, although Frankie was much more enthusiastic about our walkies than me; I think I was sleeping … Oh, here’s the poem I’m thinking of submitting to CHW next week, I’m not sure, but I think it’s ok …
        “Beyond My Outpost”

        Perched on a foreign outpost,
        Above the world’s unplanned commands,
        I’m anxiously looking across
        For somewhere safe to land.

        Whether it be the East’s desert sand,
        Or the turbulent strands
        Of the West’s Rio Grande –

        Wherever I land
        Will they ever understand?

        Do I need an identifying ankle-band?
        Is the law of the land,
        Corrupt contraband
        Or cash in hand?

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  5. AW! and SIGH! (a contended smiley sigh 🙂 )
    Beautiful, Ivor! 🌞
    Yes, there is so much more to a sunrise than we can see with our eyes! A new beginning, promise, peace, hope, strength, a reminder that we, too, can rise again… 🌞
    (((HUGS))) 💛 𓂃 ོ☼𓂃 💛

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