Category: Life

Throwback Friday, Cocoons of Hope

Today’s ‘Throwback” poem, from September 2020, will appear in my upcoming new book “Until Eyes Hear Sound” … It’ll be the 1st poem in “Chapter 3. Nature and Existence”




Cocoons of Hope


the wizard’s blizzards have melted

dormant cocoons are wriggling

spring has exploded

out of the starter’s gun

with an awakening bang

and the chirpy blackbirds

are chorusing a different tune

their winter blue songs have gone

suddenly, warmth and sunshine

muster in the air

heralding a new season

of hope and prosperity






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Ivor Steven (c) June 2023

Down To the Valley





Down To the Valley 

 
 
Roaming. 

Off the beaten track 

Over sagged wire fences 

Through plowed fields 

Down to the valley below 

Where sunflowers grow 


Detouring. 

Across the babbling brook 

Toward the castle of broken glass 

Cocooned together in woven grass 

Until time awakens the past 








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Ivor Steven (c) June 2023

Bird on a Ladder





Bird on a Ladder


 
 
I am a blackbird on a circus ladder 

Singing about how the world is feeling sadder 

Or should I sing, “becoming madder” 


Here on the last rung, I stand 

Below, I see a treeless land 

Above, I hear a breathless sky 

After the show, I untangle my necktie 

And I ask you why 

“Does it matter, when I leap, what route do I fly?”  








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Ivor Steven (c) May 2023

Anything is Everything, is up at MasticadoresUsa


A big thank you to the Editor: Barbara Leonhard, for accepting and publishing my poem “Anything is Everything” at MasticadoresUsa.

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To view my entire poem at MasticadoresUsa, please click on this link >> https://masticadoresusa.wordpress.com/2023/05/19/anything-is-everything-by-ivor-steven/

Featured Image: by Jaesub Kim on Pixabay






Ivor Steven (c) May 2023

And I Wonder





And I Wonder 

 
 
 
I stand before a living, breathing tree 

And I wonder about our existence 

Beyond the shade of the ingenuous tree 


I see dreamy clouds flow by 

And behind the baptizing clouds 

A cerulean sky bedazzles my eye 


Above our world’s limited air-supply 

The incorruptible Sun habitually shepherds us 

Throughout the planet’s perennial seasons 


And I wonder about our Sun’s existence 

Among outer space’s boundless galaxies 

Beyond the immeasurable universe 







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Ivor Steven (c) May 2023

A Blue Granite Rock





I was a rock

A cold granite prison block

From a land of hard knocks


I was a rock

A breaker of heavy locks

And tight knots


I am a rock

A mortal warlock

The universe is my clock








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Ivor Steven (c) May 2023

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: email, ivorrs20@gmail.com

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AND
Perceptions is Now Available via:

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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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Perceptions is Now Available via:

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Ivor Steven (c) May 2023