She Winked (a Haiku)
I am mesmerised
Her golden eye winked at me
She’s camera shy
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Ivor Steven (c) January 2024
Hello dear readers and followers, the Coffee House Writers Magazine had a 2 week break for the holiday season, but we are back, and I am again writing for “Coffee House Writers” magazine on a fortnightly basis, and my poem “The Unreachable Horizon”, is in this week’s edition of Coffee House Writers Magazine. …
To Read my poem, please click on the link below to visit the article, at Coffee House Writers Magazine.
>> The Unreachable Horizon – Coffee House Writers
Music Video: Poets of the Fall, “Beyond The Horizon
Ivor Steven (c) January 2024
Great News. Yesterday I received an acceptance for my submission to Cadence: Life’s Poetic Rhythms, an upcoming anthology (for Spring 2024), from Prolific Pulse Press.
They’re open to “more submissions” until the 31st of January, so I encourage all my poet friends to offer the Editor, Lisa, some joyful poetry. Details via this link >> https://www.prolificpulse.com/
Featured Image Above: A photo collage of my “Flowers in the Sky”
Ivor Steven (c) January 2024
A poem I wrote in response to Derrick Knight’s article about “Clearing Up After Storm Gerrit” >> https://derrickjknight.com/2024/01/03/clearing-up-after-storm-gerrit/
Please Note: All photos in my post today were originally taken by Derrick Knight, and I have ‘cropped’ the ones below to fit my article
Stalking the Wards (a Tanka)
After the wild storm
Nature wears her old matron’s
Reigning uniform
Staying to stalk the ward’s lawns
And nurse flora back to norm
Ivor Steven (c) January 2024
Shadowed Ground
I look up and wonder why
The moon is fearfully hiding
In the fading twilight sky
As he forlornly looks down
Upon our shadowed ground
Knowing our King of Peace
Wears a shrouded crown
Dauðalogn Translation: “Calm of death”
Ivor Steven (c) January 2024
A Summer Storm at the Cafe
The second day of the year
And our volatile summer is here
Things remain the same in our sphere
The morning was sunny and warm
But the day soon transforms
And the afternoon’s dark storm clouds
Were our thunderous shrouds
Frankie cuddles up near
As Thor’s hammer rings loud and clear
Video Below, Sigur Ros, performing a 3 minute section of their song “Von”, (which means “Hope”)
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Ivor Steven (c) January 2024
As The Sun Sinks Down
The New Year’s Eve sun
Is perpetually the finale one
Sadly
The golden eye sinks down
Upon our war-torn towns
Sadly
Carrying a worried and worn-out frown
From dressing over the world’s
Shredded wedding gowns
And wondering which old clown
Will wear tomorrow’s battered crown
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Ivor Steven (c) January 2024
The New Year is Here, or, Growing Up Too Early (a Tanka)
“What’s the right season”
The small summer mushroom asks
“Am I too early
Ouch, this midday sun is hot
I need autumn’s cooling clouds”
Vaka, English translation; day before, evening before, eve
Ivor Steven (c) January 1st, 2024
Many of you know of my friendship with Derrick Knight … last night his property was lashed by gale force winds and in response to his article about the damage to his wonderful garden, I wrote this Haiku. >> https://derrickjknight.com/2023/12/21/fearing-for-the-weeping-birch/ Please Note; All photos reproduced on this post, were taken by Derrick
Nature’s Way (a Rhyming Haiku)
Be that as it may
Nature’s in charge of our days
We don’t have a say
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Ivor Steven (c) December 2023
Over at Weekly Prompts the Wednesday Challenge is the word; Timing. To visit their fabulous site please click on >> Here … It was bad “Timing” that Frankie and I got caught in the storm this morning …
Thor’s, Boom Crash Opera
The sky looks like a wall
of blue-stone blocks
Ominous and motionless
With flashes of lightning
Bursting out of the cloud’s
solar plexus
Emblazoned by Thor’s
Thunderous bass drums
His raucous crescendo
Echoed like an aborted,
boom crash opera
Ivor Steven (c) December 2023
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