Hibernate? (a Tanka)
Legs are out of sync
The mind’s running on empty
Time to hibernate?
Eyes do not hear the sunrise
Ears cannot see the future
Ivor Steven (c) July 2024
Hibernate? (a Tanka)
Category: Life & Nature
Wicked Wintry Clouds
Wicked Wintry Clouds
Above the deep blue sky
Resides our majestic sun
And the planet’s magical moon
However, today
The wicked wintry clouds
Hoodwinked our solar lights
And now, beyond a shadow of doubt
Midday resembles midnight
Ivor Steven (c) July 2024
Out of the Blue!
The Authors’ Breakfast was a great success this morning. We had a room to ourselves at Novotel Geelong and a couple of hours to meet new people, mingle, and talk about all things books.
Out of the Blue!
This morning I attended
An authors’ breakfast
Then, out left field
You were there!
Spying on me!
Peeping through the balcony window
After the event
I was waiting at the bus stop
Then, out of nowhere
You were there!
Spying on me!
Peeping out of the leafy trees
When I returned home
I took Frankie for a walk
Then, out of the blue
You were there!
Spying on me!
Peeping from behind the whispy clouds
Ivor Steven (c) July 2024
Twilight Time
Over at Weekly Prompts, the Weekend Challenge is the word: Adapt. To visit their fabulous site, please click on >> Here. … below, my poem contains the word “Adaptable” …
Twilight Time
Photogenically
As the setting sun
Folded into the horizon
The half-moon shimmered
Like a white wave
Upon a sapphire ocean
And simultaneously
Nature’s adaptable birds
Painted winged silhouettes
On the chromatic
Twilight sky
Ivor Steven (c) July 2024
“Bees”
Featured Image: Taken by Derrick Knight, who kindly allows me to reproduce his fabulous photos on my ‘Poetry Website’
>> https://derrickjknight.com/2024/07/06/save-by-the-bees/
“Bees”
Bustling busy bees
Brazenly brave
Benevolently beneficial
By behaviourally
Binding and bridging
Our beloved blossoms
They are the burlesque backbone
Behind every balmy breath
We blessedly breathe
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Ivor Steven (c) July 2024
Throwback Friday, Invisible Miracles
Two weeks to go until the ‘launch party’ for my new book “Until Eyes Hear Sound”, and today’s Throwback Friday poem is in Chapter 7, (Memories and Rhymes) page 95, of the Book, and I wrote the poem in January 2021.
Invisible Miracles
I am neither black nor white
I am not day nor night
I am neither sand nor sea
I am not a flower or a bee
I am not wrong or right
I am not heavy or light
I am Clear and free
I am a cool ocean breeze
I am a song we breathe
I am the air from our trees
I am a star above your grave
I am a shy sound wave
I can be brave
I am your invisible slave
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Ivor Steven (c) July 2024
I’m Envious (a Rhyming Haiku)
I’m Envious (a Rhyming Haiku)
He’s keen to take flight
Clear skies beyond our gunsights
Freedom’s his birthright
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Ivor Steven (c) July 2024
Rain-less Tears
On our morning walkies, it was very overcast, but for some strange reason it didn’t rain, just a few drops here and there, like “Rain-less Tears”
Rain-less Tears
across the barren
winter paddocks
beyond the horizon’s
leafless trees
the gloomy clouds
are slowly assembling
above the melancholic
funeral congregation
humbly huddling
shoulder to shoulder
quietly weeping
rain-less tears
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Ivor Steven (c) July 2024
Five Birds (a Tanka)
Five Birds (a Tanka)
Birds on a light post
Witnessing the world below
Five jurors on hold
The verdict is forever
Blowing in the winds of time
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Ivor Steven (c) July 2024
Throwback Friday, Birds in Flight
On my morning walkies with Frankie, I like trying to photograph birds in flight, and since my book launch for “Until Eyes Hear Sound” is only 3 weeks away, I thought I would repost my poem “Birds in Flight” (Chapter 1, page 14)
Birds in Flight
Our spirit birds sleep all night
Then emanate at first light
To resume their dedicated flights
Our watchtower sentinels of Mother Earth
Who sacredly ascend at first light
Forever in flight, since nature’s worldly birth
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Perceptions:
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Tullawalla:
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OR: >> You may email me directly for a signed copy at
ivorrs20@gmail.com
Ivor Steven (c) July 2024
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