Category: Light

Evening Lights

Over at Weekly Prompts, the Wednesday Challenge is the word: Inspiration. You may visit their wonderful site by clicking on >> Here.
My poem below was “Inspired” by my evening photos of Nature’s Lights …




Evening Lights


My welcome light is on and shining

The twilight moon is iconically glowing

And the setting sun has thrown

A laser light across the horizon

The evening show has begun

There is enough room for everyone

Join me and Doctor Who’s Tardis crew

Enjoy a timeless front-row view

For a magical evening of fun

And savor another of nature’s classic re-runs






Until Eyes Hear Sound
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Chromatic Light

High noon, Lithium Light. Afternoon, Platinium Light. Dusk, Golden Light





Chromatic Light




Early in the morning

I witnessed a theatrical titanium light

Puncture the dawn sky


High noon

Under a hot searing sun

I felt the lucent lithium light

Boil the blood in my heart


Mid-afternoon

Within the fiery furnace

I watched the perennial platinum light

Fuse my soul to the ground


Dusk

Above the shimmering horizon

I wished the global golden light

Would enshroud a peaceful world tonight







Ivor Steven (c) February 2024

The Sound of Time (a Tanka), and The Last Encore

“To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else” … Emily Dickinson

Rising moonlight hears the sound of the setting sunlight





The Sound of Time (a Tanka)

I am thinking why

“Is time, such a patient guy?”

I’m always writing

Anything that comes to mind

“Does time hear the sound of light?”


The Last Encore

I am standing on the diminishing foreshore

Staring at that missing ground floor

“Like there was a door”

Between here and the last encore










Ivor Steven (c) January 2024

Stars Inside My Home (a Tanka)





Stars Inside My Home (a Tanka)


I’m not going blind

I am not losing my mind

My words are a song

A ballad from yesterday

About stars sharing my home








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Ivor Steven (c) November 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

Feel the Light (a Tu-aiku)

Hi dear readers, as you might know, I have written numerous ‘Double or Dual Haiku’, but I am yet to find a suitable ‘Format Name’ for this different style of Haiku … Today I have named my ‘Double Haiku‘ a “Tu-aiku” and this is the format name I’ll be using from now on … Please let know if you like my “Tu-aiku” name for a ‘Double Haiku’.






Feel the Light (a Tu-aiku)



The autumn magpie

Walks among the leaves and worms

An Easter parade


Below the greyness

We will always feel the light

Warmly caress us






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Ivor Steven (c) April 2023

Above The Lamps (a Haiku)




Above The Lamps (a Haiku)



Up there in the clouds

Above artificial lamps

Sunlight blooms softly








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Ivor Steven (c) April 2023

Reflection

This weekend on Weekly Prompts the monthly Colour Challenge for April is: Tricolour . Please go and visit their fabulous site by clicking on > Here
My “tricolour poem” below is about, rainnbows, orbits, and cosmic snow

A special thank you to Mark Ryan for inspiring my imagination, visit his incredible site via this link >> https://havocandconsequence.wordpress.com/2023/03/31/decaying-orbit


Reflection



Like a rainbow

Orbits come and go

Each brilliant arch

Travels a mirrored path


Is our life, a rainbow’s

Reflection upon cosmic snow









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Ivor Steven (c) March 2023

I Do (a Haiku)



I wrote a haiku

Before the world had seen you

Why are you so blue?








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Ivor Steven (c) March 2023



Cloudless and Clueless, a Haiku

The clear blue skys of summer seem to be inspiring my writings lately ...



Cloudless and Clueless, a Haiku




Beyond vacant sky

Infinity outlives time

Why does greed survive?








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Ivor Steven (c) December 2022