A haiku I wrote while I was visiting my cousins and their families in Philadelphia back in May 2019 … For me, “a dream of the heart that came true”
Field of Dreams (a Haiku)
Life is sweet and smooth
Eating strawberries and cream
Full of tasty dreams
Ivor Steven (c) 15th May 2019
Hello dear readers and followers, I now write for “Coffee House Writers” magazine on a fortnightly basis, and my poem “Hearing Is Out of Sight”, is in this week’s edition of Coffee House Writers Magazine. … please click on the link below and visit my poem, at Coffee House Writers.
>> https://coffeehousewriters.com/hearing-is-out-of-sight/
Hearing Is Out of Sight
Do you peer through the blinds?
Did you peek and wonder?
About the empty street outside
Why is every morning like Sunday?
A solemn quietness amplified
Do you listen to the bells chime?
Did you hear your silent number?
Ring from the phone-box outside
Is the world in a slumber?
Waiting, forlornly mystified
Ivor Steven (c) September 2022
A poem from a previous bad back month, in December 2019, seems to be appropriate
as I head into the second month of frustrating inactivity … Sorry, readers and followers for my continuing blogging absense …
Dreamless
Tap, tap, feel the back pain again
The drizzling pulse of dreamless rain
Falling on a hard pillow, wet and stained
The misty clouds of sleepless brain
Rivers of visions, once crystal clear
Now flooded fields of dreamless fears
Cascading mirrors, once reflective and sheer
Now broken pools of dreamless tears
Ivor Steven (c) Dec 2019
Featured Photo: by Derrick Knight, and a sincere thank you to Derrick for permitting me to use his fabulous image here in collaboration with my poem. This is now our “40th” collaborative article, and our joint book “Perceptions” is now in the hands of my editor/publisher (Judy, from Jaymah Press), and hopefully, the book will be in print before Christmas
Standing On Unstable Ground
Do not make me laugh
The pain would cut me in half
Instead
Pass me yesterday’s leftover chaff
Alas
I cannot leave you an autograph
I am a wounded grey donkey
Standing on unstable ground
Feeling disabled and lonely
And my inner damage is yet to be found
Ivor Steven © August 2022
Thank you to Ryan Stone for being the source of my inspiration behind the words in this Haiku. Visit Ryan’s fabulous site via this link >> https://daysofstone.wordpress.com
Our Weeping Forest (a Haiku)
Who is listening?
Within the weeping forest
On the edge of time
Ivor Steven © August 2022
This weekend, on Weekly Prompts, the challenge word is: Review (2). Please go over and visit their fabulous site by clicking on >> Here.
Below is my review of of C Faherty Brown’s new book “Another Yellow Door”, and you may visit her site via this link>> https://bikecolleenbrown.wordpress.com/
“Another Yellow Door”, by C Faherty Brown, my Review.
And you find Colleen’s book on Lulu Books, and also read all the other great reviews via this link >> https://www.lulu.com/shop/c-faherty-brown/another-yellow-door/paperback/product-r9jk4m.html?q=another+yellow+door&page=1&pageSize=4
“Another Yellow Door” enticingly invites you to join Bronagh on her travel log of adventure across USA, via an “off the beaten track” journey. Bronagh has converted her purpose-bought cargo van into a self-contained home on wheels, which has a distinct side opening “Yellow Door”. The door on her van proves to be like a yellow honey hive, attracting various characters who are openly curious enough to enquire about Bronagh’s fascinating van and her journey’s adventures. Bronagh is brave, but not overly confident of what she wants to achieve, or the actual purpose of her quest. She doesn’t know where she is traveling to, or why she is traveling in that direction … No Matter, jump aboard, sit in the empty passenger seat and enjoy the ride. You won’t be disappointed with where ever her journey happens to take you, and you’ll be more than enchanted with whoever she meets along the way. There were times I smiled with tears of joy and sometimes I cried tears of sadness … and overall I thoroughly enjoyed reading “another” fabulous book by C Faherty Brown
My collection of Colleen’s fabulous
I think Colleen has the same number of books as “Leonard Cohen” in my bookcase.
Ivor Steven (c) August 2022
Hello dear readers and followers, I now write for “Coffee House Writers” magazine on a fortnightly basis, and my poem “A Good Guide”, is in this week’s edition of Coffee House Writers Magazine. … please click on the link below to read my poem, at Coffee House Writers.
>> https://coffeehousewriters.com/a-good-guide/
Ivor Steven (c) August 2022
Hi dear readers, I’ve found another poem that is in my files, but does not appear on my Website … now I am wondering what happened to my website entries between the 16th and 19th of October last year … it’s a mystery to me??
Spring’s Renewal
Spring has sprung again
With a burst of sunshine
Between old storm clouds and new rain
While life’s decor is being redesigned
Winter’s open wounds
Are washed clean
Last year’s fragile blooms
Are due back on the scene
Ivor Steven (c) August 2022
Here is a poem that is in my files, but does not appear on my Website, maybe I deleted the post accidentally …
The World Could Be Falling Down
I was walking in yesterday’s deluge
up a steep holy hillside
talking to my fading shadow
that was stalking deep puddles
while I was balking today’s thunderbolts
my knees were knocking in fright
and my hips were rocking like Noah’s Ark
while shovelling leftover manure in the dark
nature’s mocking the world full of old lonely hearts
and blocking the future’s already drowning restart
Ivor Steven (c) August 2022
Hello dear readers and followers, this poem today is the first piece I have written for 3 weeks, after being unable to attempt any computer work because of my debilitating back pain. I’m afraid my back is still very sore, and this article has been put together via short sittings at my desk over the last 3 days. I think Derrick’s photos captured my imagination and stirred my tired mind to write something creative.
All Photographs, by Derrick Knight, and thank you once again for allowing me to reproduce your fabulous images here on my poetry site …
>> https://derrickjknight.com/2022/08/18/no-one-told-the-ponies/
And this is now our 39th poem/photograph collaboration, and a “Glossy Coffee-table” type book “Perceptions” is on the way, hopefully, available before Christmas.
No-one told the ponies
Congregating Every Day
There they patiently stand
Congregating every day
Outside the community shop
And the village letterbox
Most of them are posting
Food parcels to their equine relatives
Hungry and abandoned in the Ukraine
Others wait forlornly
For any news of encouragement
About the health and whereabouts
From their frightened families
Inside war-torn Ukraine
There they patiently stand
Congregating every day
Ivor Steven © August 2022
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