Birds and Trees (a Haiku)
Trees are for the birds
Nature’s protective towers
Don’t destroy their homes
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Ivor Steven (c) June 2023
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
Hello dear readers and followers, I am now back writing for “Coffee House Writers” magazine, and my poem “An Untravelled Highway”, is in this week’s edition of Coffee House Writers Magazine. … please click on the link below and visit my poem, at Coffee House Writers Magazine. >> https://coffeehousewriters.com/an-untraveled-highway/
An Untravelled Highway
Hello newcomer
How long have you been there?
A stranger in a strange land
Standing alone on harsh ground
Living between a barbwire barrier
And an untraveled highway
Where do you come from?
My coloured one
Where are you going?
Within our vast island home
I wonder. Will you be accepted
By other pretentious squatters
With tolerance and compassion
Ivor Steven (c) June 2023
I Could Be Wrong?
I have completed my ‘New Folder’ of poems
And I am satisfied with my final 160 selections
Sometimes my words sound young and wild
Other times my poems are nostalgic and mild
I write about what my eyes hear
I hear the stars sing to my soul
I see the universe in a blade grass
I feel love and compassion flow from my heart
I have been pondering about a book ‘Title’
For this latest collection of poems
I have tentatively chosen, “Until Eyes Hear Sound”
And I am wondering?
Am I right, or am I wrong?
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Ivor Steven (c) June 2023
At Weekly Prompts, the Weekend Challenge is the word: Fresh. Please go over and visit their fabulous site by clicking on >> Here … Below is my response to their prompt Fresh.
Animal Clouds
Today, the shapely edges of my sky
Formed a gigantic picture frame
Around nature’s enigmatic blue canvas
A magical background for the awaiting clouds
To project their showy animal images on
Then the cinematic masterpiece rolled in
There above I saw a white Whale float by
And across in the corner of the screen
A Cheetah crept in, ready to pounce
Upon the sleepy afternoon moon
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Ivor Steven (c) June 2023
My Darkest Ocean
I am not asleep
Nor am I awake
I am adrift
Inside my worst nightmare
I am paddling my leaking canoe
Across a thick oil-slick
A slimy and sickly syrup
Polluting my Antarctic Ocean
I see gasping penguins drowning
I slide my arm around their grease-caked feathers
Grasping their Frenziedly flailing wings
Fervently trying to save them
My canoe is rapidly bulging at the seams
We are listing, and slowly sinking
In my clutching arms
We gather and cling together
As the cold darkness surges in
Engulfing my unfathomable dream
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Ivor Steven (c) June 2023
Today’s Throwback Friday poem is from October 2019, a time when I was anxious about trying to finish my “Tullawalla” Manuscript before my publisher’s Christmas deadline. Tullawalla was my first serious attempt at compiling a poetry collection, and I was panicking that I would not complete the project in time … I calmly sat myself down and wrote this poem to myself … “What’s all the fuss about, stop worrying, and just do the best you can” …
Better Late, Than Never (Revised)
Dawn’s morning blues
Drowns me in droplets of dew
I slip into yesterday’s shabby shoes
Rundown, from worrying about you
I’m late, and just waking up
Drinking cold tea, from my enamel cup
Quickly I must rush
Only time enough to catch the bus
But I stopped! What’s all the fuss
Soon they’ll be another one
And today, don’t forget to put a cap on
I’ll get there, only thirty minutes later
Relaxed, not hustled and feeling betterer
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Ivor Steven (c) June 2023
Today I am reposting a poem from July 2020. The day has become very wet and “cool” this afternoon, and coincidently the Wednesday Challenge from Weekly Prompts is the word: COOL. Please go and visit their fabulous site by clicking on >>
Here
Clouds Are Down
Coldness hovers in foggy grey air
The sun’s dirty eye-wear
Icy winter ground
A crunchy grass sound
Blue skies await, clouds are down
There’s hope above, in her golden crown
Hafsol (Sun of the sea), Rigur Ros, lyrics in English.
Behind a cloudburst,
the sun awakens from hibernation
Cools off with the cold drops of rain
Plays with the hot flames of fire
Creates a rainbow talking on the arm,
talking on Behind a cloudburst,
the sun awakens from hibernation
Cools off with the cold drops of rain
Playing with my name I would like to look for
Creates a rainbow
Ivor Steven (c) June 2023
Hi dear readers and followers, after several setbacks, I have resumed working on writing my third book of poems. Since I published “Tullawalla” and “Perceptions”, I was surprised to discover that I had written over 700 more poems after those 2 ‘manuscripts’ were completed … From these 700 poems I have selected “208” pieces to be considered for entry into my new manuscript. Now! the difficult process of culling the list down to a reasonable number begins …
Eventide
I looked beyond the afternoon sky
And shyly asked the sun to guide my eye
“What is the average number of pages in a book of poetry?
How many poems should there be in my book of artistry?
Then projecting out of the blue sky
The bewildered sun winked into my eye
And knowingly replied
“Brush all your self doubts aside
and let your soul flow with the moon’s eventide”
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Ivor Steven (c) June 2023
Here at the Box Office Cafe
Normality’s back
The cafe coffee tastes great
And Frankie agrees
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Ivor Steven (c) June 2023
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