Category: Life & Nature

Patchwork Words


Today’s poem is created from an amalgamation of “4” anecdotes/comments that I have sent to my fellow WP sites in response to their fabulous poems/articles …
In stanza order, they are:
* Carol >> https://therapybits.com/2024/08/04/in-the-bright-patchwork-where-colors-collide/
* Mark >> https://havocandconsequence.wordpress.com/2024/08/07/ignore-ignited-flame/
* Michelle >> https://herwritinghaven.com/2024/08/07/hard/
* Willow >> https://willowdot21.wordpress.com/2024/08/07/wordless-wednesday-memories-3/






Patchwork Words


Our big wondrous world
Is like a well-worn patchwork quilt
Where the warmth of hope and love does not wilt

We fly through decades of storms
I wonder
Are we the pilot of our journeys

Our unreadable blueprints
Are only guidelines in black ink
To make us think
Of life’s kinks and chinks
And those indistinct
Instinctive missing links

Our treasured memories
Are like nursery rhymes
They stay in our minds forever 













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Ivor Steven (c) August 2024

Throwback Friday, Sundown’s Flight


Last week, my poems were about nature’s theatrical light shows, and today’s Throwback poem is a very appropriate choice. Originally written in August 2019, and as is my way, I have rehashed my poem …



Sundown’s Flight


When I’m physically able
And feeling stable
I like to stroll down my dead-end lane
And study the sky’s weather vane


I see twilight clouds on the run
Being corralled by the setting sun
Shredding prisms of light, tonight’s benediction
Bright orange and grey, tomorrow’s ritzy prediction
From the horizon’s flamboyant ballet
A jazzy indication that storms are on the way


Then the shadowed treeline, merges with the cloudy red kites
And I stand here witnessing sundown’s dazzling flight












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Ivor Steven (c) August 2024

The Sun is Warmer (a Haiku)

Over at Weekly Prompts, the Wednesday challenge is the word –  Irresistible. Please visit their wonderful website by clicking on >> Here

And I’m find the end of winter’s warmer sunshine, pleasingly “Irresistible”.





The Sun is Warmer (a Haiku)


Winter’s waning

And he cannot hold back spring

Warmly, the sun winks











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Ivor Steven (c) August 2024

Pockets Full of Stone





Pockets Full of Stones



I would like to fly away
On this cold wintry day
But my pockets are full of stones
And my old wings are fragile bones


My benevolent friend, the moon
Is hibernating in his orbital cocoon
So, I’m grounded with muddy toes
Stuck here on this frosty meadow












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Ivor Steven (c) August 2024

Towering Archways





Towering Archways



Clouds are not all the same grey
Below their showy berets
They float like a ‘Swan Lake’ ballet

Adorning their silvery causeways
They display Nature’s mandalas,
screenplays, and cabarets


They are the sky’s open sleighs
The world’s towering archways
Gateways for tomorrow’s stairway











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Ivor Steven (c) August 2024

Crystallized Sunlight






Crystallized Sunlight

 
Deep-sleep night 
Eyes squeezed tight 
Avoiding 
Dawn’s icy white blight 

Deep-sleep fright 
Crystallized sunlight 
Ushering 
Dawn’s silent frostbite 












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Ivor Steven (c) August 2024

Enjoy the Carnival



Today’s poem was inspired by Eugi’s philosophical poem, ‘Profound Transformation’
>> https://amanpan.com/2024/08/01/profound-transformation/








Enjoy the Carnival


Arise, forget about the chaos
Surround yourselves with nature’s gloss
And enjoy the carnival’s fairy floss

Arise, be your own boss
Escape the world’s mossy dross
And enjoy the carnival’s fairy floss












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Ivor Steven (c) August 2024

Throwback Friday, Jack’s Back

It was a frosty Zero degrees this morning, so this Throwback poem from July 2022 was today’s appropriate choice



Jack’s Back 

 

I woke at dawn 
And there was Jack  
Laying on my lawn 
 

Good morning, Mr. Frost 
I am at a loss 
With the ground so white 
And the air’s bitter bite 
Why are called Jack? 
The Jacks I know from the outback 
Are all warmhearted folks  
And happy-go-lucky blokes 
Not cold-blooded guys 
Baptized by frozen skies 

Are you a naughty and chilly skite? 
Or a noble defender of the night 
Jack! Today at first light 
You gave my warm toes an icy fright 













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Ivor Steven (c) July 2024

Shadows Over the Meadows

Over at Weekly Prompts, the Wednesday Challenge is: Rigid … To visit their fabulous site please click on >> Here

Lol … me and Frankie cast a ‘Rigid’ looking shadow this morning …



Shadows Over the Meadows




I lingered under a clear blue sky

Where the low winter sun was shining brightly

And the gleaning mid-morning shadows

Vividly ebbed across the meadows

And the fluent silhouettes

Lithely floated over nature’s bed of roses













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Ivor Steven (c) July 2024

Love! One Word, One World, One Day

Over at Weekly Prompts, as it is the last weekend of the month they are again giving us the challenge of The ‘One Day’ Prompt! To visit their fabulous site, please click on >> Here 

My poem today is another “one” of those pieces made up of comments I posted on some of my fellow WordPress writers’ articles during the month. In stanza order, they are

Eugi >> https://amanpan.com/2024/07/04/strategies-self-seeking/

Sadje >> https://lifeafter50forwomen.com/2024/07/01/in-the-center-of-my-eye/

Bree >> https://secretthoughtswithin.com/2024/07/01/other-lives/



Love! One Word, One World, One Day




We are surrounded
By Nature’s wondrous colour
But we fail to see
The sound of her pain

Above our shadows
And beyond our dreams
Lives hope and love

Shall we never stop dreaming
About our world’s wilderness of words
Whether we are reading or writing













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Ivor Steven (c) July 2024