Author: ivor20

Over at Weekly Prompts, the Wednesday Challenge is: Humility. Please visit their fabulous site by clicking on >> Here. Today my poem is about how our humble birds handle the difficulties of flying into the wind.

Watching Birds Fly Into the Wind (a Double Tanka)

The birds hover high
And struggle against strong winds
With wings at full span
They gracefully glide and dive
Tacking into the airwaves


Irrepressible
They’re powerful for their size
Like turbocharged darts
Aerodynamically
Conceived to sail through all winds

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Ivor Steven (c) May 2024

This has been a nostalgic week for me. Thursday was my mother’s birthday, and also Carole’s “funeral day” and now it is “Mothers Day”… Here is my tribute to those 2 magnificent women in my life…

My Women

After I had left the hem

Without women

I could not have survived my time

I would not have braved the climb

Ladies, you are my rhyme

My mothers of thyme

Helping me roll away the stone

Maintaining these old bones

Repairing the bridges, I have burnt

Reciting the messages, I have learnt

Cheering from the sidelines

Supporting my broken designs

Women of My Rhymes

Mothers for a lifetime

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Tullawalla is Available From

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Ivor Steven: email, ivorrs20@gmail.com

Amazon: search via, ‘Tullawalla by Ivor Steven’

AND
Perceptions is Now Available via:

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Ivor Steven (c) May 2024

Please Note: All images were taken by Derrick Knight, and I am incredibly grateful that he kindly allows me to reproduce his photos on my poetry site.
>> https://derrickjknight.com/2024/05/04/first-foals-of-2024/





I Need You




I am proudly striding

Beside my mother

Below her handsome shoulder

And close to her cuddly hip

I rub against her warmth

So, I can hear her loving heartbeat

And feel her rhythmical breath

Calmly caress my soft ears

Here, I have no fear while she is near