Life – Page 11 – Ivor.Plumber/Poet

Arriving and Leaving, Visiting Her

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Featured Collage Above: the photos were taken by Derrick Knigkt, and kindly with his permission, he allows me to reproduce them here in collaboration with my poems. Here Below, are the photos before I created the “Canva Collage”

Arriving and Leaving, Visiting Her

arriving

via the cemetery gate

holding her flowers

hands quivering

heart quickens

bowing silently

reminiscing

smiling

wondering why

closing time

and visiting time

co-exist in life

leaving

via the cemetery path

renewing goodbyes

crying silently

breathing slowly

smiling

wondering why

closing time

and visiting time

co-exist in life

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Ivor Steven (c) March 2023

A Lonely Echo (a Tanka)

In the deepest time

Of our immense universe

The soulful echo

Of our loneliest heartbeat

Rediscovers the way home

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Ivor Steven (c) March 2023

A Beetle Called Bertha, is in this week’s Coffee House Writers Magazine

Hello dear readers and followers, I now write for “Coffee House Writers” magazine on a fortnightly basis, and my poem “A Beetle Called Bertha”, 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. >> https://coffeehousewriters.com/a-beetle-called-bertha/

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Ivor Steven (c) March 2023

The Odds and Ends, I Send

A poem made up of anecdotes that I have written and sent to my fellow blogger’s sites, as replies to their articles/poems … In order of stanza appearance below,
– V.J. >https://vjknutson.org/
– Kate > https://aroused.blog/
– Beth > https://ididnthavemyglasseson.com/

This week’s Wednesday Challenge on Weekly Prompts is the word: CHANGE … here is the link to their fabulous site >> https://weeklyprompts.com/2023/02/22/weekly-prompts-wednesday-challenge-change/ … and my poem today is a “Change” from what I normally write …

The Odds and Ends, I send

Our head reaches for the clouds

But our heart forgets to speak aloud

We are all little fish in a big sea

Swimming below the atmosphere

Created by nature’s life giving trees

Not all rocks

Are not just rocks

Some old rocks

When you study their socks

And listen to their knees knock

They “Have rocked around the clock”

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Ivor Steven (c) February 2023

Shadows Fall (a Musette)

Don’t stop

Do not look back

Leaves drop

Shadows

Do not create

Meadows

Walk tall

Don’t look beyond

Nightfall

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Ivor Steven (c) February 2023

Birds Under Trees

Birds Under Trees

Below the wavering clouds

Nature’s noble trees

become the birds shrouds

and the world’s true trustees

There, under the sheltering steeples

the earth is their sacred temple

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Ivor Steven (c) January 2023

Throwback Friday, Co-Existing, by Ivor Steven

I posted this article on the Go Dog Go Cafe site earlier today, and please visit there fabulous site by clicking on here >> https://wordpress.com/view/godoggocafe.com

A poem I wrote back in April 2019, just before I wss about to fly to the other side of the world, New York and Philadelphia.

Co-Existing

On a starry Autumn night

Lying under the cosmic sky

I see a universe beyond

The galaxy’s milky way

With unnumbered orbiting planets

Astronomer’s clearly hearing their sound

Radars that echo, there’s no shadow of doubt

Out there somewhere

In the vastness of space

Another similar earth, co-exists

Do those purple aliens

Wait and wonder

Look to the cosmos and ponder

When will those humanoids arrive

Invading their picturesque, violet atmosphere

Ravaging innocent foreign lands and lives

Bowing to the human war cry

Assimilate or die

“Melancholy Man” The Moody Blues

I’m a melancholy man, that’s what I am,
All the world surrounds me, and my feet are on the ground.
I’m a very lonely man, doing what I can,
All the world astounds me and I think I understand
That we’re going to keep growing, wait and see.When all the stars are falling down
Into the sea and on the ground,
And angry voices carry on the wind,
A beam of light will fill your head
And you’ll remember what’s been said
By all the good men this world’s ever known.
Another man is what you’ll see,
Who looks like you and looks like me,
And yet somehow he will not feel the same,
His life caught up in misery, he doesn’t think like you and me,
‘Cause he can’t see what you and I can see

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Ivor Steven (c) January 2023

We Lost the “A” Side (a Senryu)

All Featured Images: were taken by Derrick Knight, and I sincerely thank him for allowing me reproduce his marvelous photos here on my poetry site.

We Lost the “A” Side (a Senryu)

There, on the “B”side

Of her undiagnosed moon

Lay my empty spoon