Sky Blue Dome (a Tanka)

Some days the sky feels larger than usual. On a sunny blue-sky day, a fantail and a butterfly briefly shared the same boundless canvas above, inspiring this tanka about wonder, flight, and Nature’s sunlit cosmic dome.





Sky Blue Dome (a Tanka)

I see a Fantail
En route to his sky-blue home
And a butterfly
Bravely fluttering toward
Nature’s sunlit cosmic dome





As this tanka found its wings, then a song arrived, as if it had been part of the journey all along.



Ivor Steven © November 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.

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