Category: Life & Nature

Today Ran Away (a Haiku)

Over at Weekly Prompts, the Wednesday Challenge is. Late Bloomer … today I arose after ‘noon’ and the below Haiku is my appropriate response … please visit their fabulous site by clicking on >> Here …



Today Ran Away (a Haiku)


Why a noon so soon?

Eyes haven’t seen the sky today

Where has the moon gone?








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Ivor Steven (c) September 2023

Above the Clover




Above the Clover




Yesterday’s storm passed over

I am tip-toeing carefully

Above the torn clover

Buried by red autumn leaves

And fallen branches



I am traveling light

But there is shredded debris

Everywhere underfoot

With every step, I feel a crunch

Every crunch, I hear a snap

Every snap, I feel my heart crack



Inside this cracked heart

I see a track

Winding back

To our love shack






Ivor Steven (c) Sept 2023

Watermarks, (Revised from yesterday)

“With a little help from my friend” … Ryan Stone, I have changed the finale word from ‘hand’ to Shadow … and presented the poem within my ‘drawing’ of a ‘Waterfall’ … My poem here originally began as a 4 line comment/anecdote on Ryan Stone’s “Hourglass” poem he posted three days ago, and I have rehashed those words and created an interesting “Pyramid Poem” … Thanks to Ryan for being the source of the “Watermarks” poem … please click on this link to visit his fabulous site >> https://daysofstone.com/2023/08/31/hourglass/






Watermarks (Revised)











Ivor Steven (c) Sept 2023

Watermarks

My poem here originally began as a 4 line comment/anecdote on Ryan Stone’s “Hourglass” poem he posted two days ago, and I have rehashed those words and created an interesting “Pyramid Poem” … Thanks to Ryan for being the source of the “Watermarks” poem … please click on this link to visit his fabulous site >> https://daysofstone.com/2023/08/31/hourglass/




Watermarks
(a Pyramid Poem)

rivers flow

tides come and go

footprints in the sand

slip away with the undertow

dreams fade in a cloud of mist and snow

hollow watermarks drift over the poet’s shadow






Ivor Steven (c) Sept 2023

Blossom Over Jerusalem

Spring has begun and the trees are In blossom … this glorious spring day has prompted me to repost “Blossom Over Jerusalem” a poem that also appears in my book Tullawalla
Over at Weekly Prompts, for the month of September, the Colour Challenge is: Brown. Please visit their fabulous site by clicking on >> HERE … and here my poem captures the “brown” winter trees blossoming at the beginning of spring





Blossom Over Jerusalem


I write about the purple moon

That eats the night with a silver spoon

I write about the yellow sun

That bathes our day with gold by the ton


I hear the bird’s morning songs

They caress the world’s souls, right or wrong

I hear the animals’ mighty roars

They remind us of the great outdoors


I see the blue sky above

Where life’s white doves carry our love

I see the green pastures, beyond Jerusalem

Where life’s fruit trees blush with blossom








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Ivor Steven (c) September 2023

Throwback Friday, Lullaby (a Senryu)

Today I am presenting another poem that will be appearing in my new book “Until Eyes Hear Sound”. I wrote ‘Lullaby’ in May 2023, and the Senryu will be the opening piece in the ‘Senryu’ section of Chapter 10. Short Poems: Haiku, Senryu, Tanka, and Others.

And coincidently, over at Weekly Prompts, the Midweek Challenge is the word Napping, please visit their fabulous site by clicking on >> Here …

Please Note: All above images (Except the one of Frankie), were by taken by Derrick Knight, and he kindly allows me to reproduce his wonderful photos here on my poetry website. If you wish, you may visit his fabulous Site via this link > https://derrickjknight.com/2023/05/17/baby-species/




Lullaby (a Senryu)



Sleep little ones, sleep

Our Chaotic world will wait

Until eyes hear sound








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Ivor Steven (c) September 2023

The Morning After





The Morning After



Tracking south

Stepping from one quiet cloud

Onto a whispering cloud

Following powdered footprints

Without displacing a feather

Without cracking the sky’s

Hypnotic blue eggshell

And daydreaming of the south

Without you








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Ivor Steven: email, ivorrs20@gmail.com

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Ivor Steven (c) August 2023

Where Have The Faeries Gone

RECENTLY PUBLISHED

Where Have The Faeries Gone?

ENVIRONMENT POETRY

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WHERE HAVE THE FAERIES GONE?

BY IVOR STEVEN/

AUGUST 21, 2023/

    Ivor Steven / Coffee House Writers

    Deep in the enchanted forest
    Under mossy rocks and water-reeds 
    I found an iron-bar door
    Lying over a sinkhole in the creek bed

    I wondered and yelled out
    Eerily, a gentle voice replied
    “Do not worry, we are sheltering here” 
    “Why are you hiding?” I inquired 
    “We are waiting for humanity  
    to stop the carnage on our planet”

    Then, peering up from lower in the chasm
    I witnessed that the small luminous eyes  
    Of Earth’s guardian faeries 
    Were en masse, joyless, and crying

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    Where Have the Faeries Gone? is in this week’s Coffee House Writers Magazine

    Hello dear readers and followers, I am now writing for “Coffee House Writers” magazine on a fortnightly basis, and my poem “Where Have the Faeries Gone?”, is in this week’s edition of Coffee House Writers Magazine. … please click on the link below to view my poem, at Coffee House Writers Magazine. >> https://coffeehousewriters.com/where-have-the-faeries-gone/


    Music/Video: by Sigur Ros, “Ylur”, translated means, Warmth




    Ivor Steven ©  August 2023