Mothers (a Tanka)
Happy Mothers Day
The queens of my universe
Your stars light my sky
Every day and every night
On my bended knees, I stay
Ivor Steven (c) May 2023
Mothers (a Tanka)
Category: Life
Colour Us Blue
Colour Us Blue
Above
I see a single sphere of blue
Sheltering my raptured canoe
Skewered by an earthly corkscrew
Here
I wait to be rescued
Then I ask the crew
“How long is the queue
beyond this canopy of blue?”
After
In the celestial sky with you
Every soul is united by blue
Everyone’s true skin is the same hue
We are all coloured blue
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Ivor Steven (c) May 2023
Falling Into Darkness (a Senryu)
Darkness folds into
Eyes that do not hear the sounds
Of homeless spirits
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Ivor Steven (c) May 2023
Unforgettable
Yesterday
Was one of those days
At lunchtime
I went to the Box Office Cafe
I forgot
And left without paying
For my coffee and cake
In the afternoon
I had a doctor’s appointment
I forgot
And left without paying
For the Fee at reception
After Dinner
I caught a bus into town
I forgot
That the ‘open mic’ night
Occurs on the second Thursday of each month
This morning
I watch the sunshine
Flickering on her handmade curtains
I remember
And I relight her candle again
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Ivor Steven (c) May 2023
Under The Snow
A special poem I wrote, after I’d taken my Lady to hospital for the last time, on the day of her 65th birthday, eleven years ago. Hello Carole, and I wonder if you still wonder that I wonder, about wandering on your celestial star…….
Under The Snow.
We emanate to a birthday.
We deflate to a final day.
Birthdays, they all come, they all go.
Birthdays, in the sunshine, under the snow.
Birthdays, slow to mature, quickly an aeon.
Birthdays, before we are born, after we are gone.
Birthdays, hanging on by a breath.
Birthdays, nailed to a cross ’til death.
What’s it all mean to be alive and cry.
What’s it all mean to live and to die.
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Ivor Steven (c) May 4th 2023
Afterglow
Put another log on the fire, while I travel to Tasmania with the two Philadelphia girls and three other Aussie cousins … Thursday 27th April – Monday 1st May
Afterglow
After a frenetic time
I feel like a burnt-out hollow log
My charred core is clinging
Onto nature’s dampened fringes
Of Autumn leaves and fallen branches
Where flora stealthily regenerates
Steadily, my diminished cavern
Is growing wider
And my ambient lantern
Is glowing brighter
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Ivor Steven (c) April 2023
Life’s U-turns
Hi dear readers, despite being incredibly busy cleaning house for my Philadelphia cousins and also trying to format my agenda for my book launch on Sunday! … today’s poem was drafted at the ‘Box Office Cafe’ yesterday afternoon and I’ll be reciting it at “Lowercase Poetry’s” open Mic’ event tomorrow evening. The Theme/Prompt for the Poetry Night is “Slow Burn”
Life’s U-turns
The old body is almost awake
Sleep lingers in my eyes
My aching back needs exercise
And creaks like a rusty gate
My doggie looks at me quizzically
He is full of pizzazz and glee
“It’s breakfast time
Forget your memories and rhymes”
I cannot row the boat anymore
These chalky bones are too sore
From the crashes in life’s u-turns
Now, dry wicks for my candle’s slow burn
Don’t worry, today, is not my turn
To join her in the mantle-piece urn
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Ivor Steven (c) April 2023
Don’t Cry Over Spilt Milk (a Haiku)
” When life gives you a reason to break down and cry, show life that you have a hundred reasons to smile and laugh.”
Don’t Cry Over Spilt Milk (a Haiku)
Breakfast milk is spilt
A silky pool on the floor
The bottle didn’t break
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Ivor Steven (c) April 2023
Deep and Deeper?
The inspiration behind my philosophical poem, came from two fellow blogger’s articles today … please visit their fabulous sites by clicking the links below >
Annette >> https://aikalandros.com/2023/04/02/seeking-2/
Frank >> https://beachwalkreflections.wordpress.com/2023/04/01/183-deep/
Deep and Deeper?
while afloat we keep seeking
and building boats that keep leaking
time sails by and we keep weeping
I often wonder how deep
humanity’s knowledge is
yet unseen …
how deep are our oceans
yet unseen …
how deep is the universe
yet unseen …
how deep is humanity’s love
for one another
yet unseen …
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Ivor Steven (c) March 2023
Dragonfly, Nature’s Guardian Eye
Featured Images: I am thrilled to say that the attached photos are mine, and they are my first-ever successful photographs of Dragonflies …
Dragonfly, Nature’s Guardian Eye
Long before homo sapiens overachievers
You were the swamp’s incorruptible believer
Overseer of the planet’s rivers and valleys
The weary world’s ardent ally
Long before the floundering Ark
You were our wisest Monarch
Overseer of the forest’s unpolluted sky
Nature’s sprightly guardian eye
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Ivor Steven (c) March 2023
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