Nature – Page 7 – Ivor.Plumber/Poet

Alexander (a Haiku)

Where do you go to?

My Alexander beetle

Striding so calmly

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Ivor Steven (c) March 2023

Nature Remembers (a Haiku)

Nature Remembers (a Haiku)

The red lily blooms

In February each year

Memories of you

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Ivor Steven (c) March 2023

Dust In My Eye

Above Artwork: By my niece, Kerri Costello

Dust In My Eye

I felt gravity’s pressure drop

When I noticed time had stopped

There, beyond our gray sky

Sunlight was beginning to die

Is Doomsday plunging into our sty?

Or, has future’s dust inhabited my eye

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Ivor Steven (c) March 2023

Infusion (a Tanka)

A big thank you to Dwight >> https://rothpoetry.wordpress.com/2023/02/24/we-cant-help-ourselves/ , his wonderful poem inspired this Tanka …

This week’s Weekend Challenge on Weekly Prompts is the word: WALKING. Please go and visit their fabulous site by clicking on this link >> https://weeklyprompts.com/2023/02/25/weekly-prompts-weekend-challenge-walking/
The featured photos attached were taken on my morning “walk” with Frankie …

Infusion (a Tanka)

Nature inspires us

mere mortals, through the bad times

live on and enjoy

times of preordained sunshine

that infuse our souls with light

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Ivor Steven (c) February 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

Birds on Fences, is in This Weeks Coffee House Writers Magazine

Hello dear readers and followers, I now write for “Coffee House Writers” magazine on a fortnightly basis, and my poem “Birds on Fences”, 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/birds-on-fences/

Birds have commandeered my poetic imagination lately.

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Ivor Steven (c) February 2023

A Sapphire Blue Canopy

At Weekly Prompts, the Weekend Challenge is the word: Treasure. Please go over and visit their fabulous site by clicking on >> Here . Below, my poem “A Sapphire Blue Canopy”, is about the ‘treasure’ of our morning sky.

A Sapphire Blue Canopy

Above the shimmering horizon

Daylight’s glow resolutely grows

Like a rising ocean tide

Strutting over hot sand

The sunrise swaggers

Up through the clouds

Vividly vapourizing

Their hypnotic silver linings

And progressively exposes the sky’s

Sapphire blue canopy

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Ivor Steven (c) February 2023

Throwback Friday, The Oven Sky, by Ivor Steven

Copied from my article on “Go Dog Go Cafe” today >> https://godoggocafe.com/2023/02/17/throwback-friday-the-oven-sky-by-ivor-steven/

It’s a hot 103’F here in Geelong this afternoon, so appropriately my Throwback Friday poem “The Oven Sky”, from February 2019, is my repost for today.

The Oven Sky

The summer flowers have faded and gone

Wilting leaves, look like the devils blight

My Calendar declares Autumn is almost here

But it’s still summer in the city

Remaining hot and dusty, here on my plot

All the dogs are panting, searching for a cool block

Singed birds have refused to fly in the oven sky

Today’s furnace, is the night’s unwanted heater

Dry rot is crumbling, under the burning sun

Fat rain drops have forgotten their landing spots

And the drought smiles at us with disdain

As we gasp and forlornly wait for a cool change

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Ivor Steven (c) February 2019

Waterfall

Today we went to Geelong’s picturesque “Buckleys Falls River Reserve” for our morning walkies and I took several photos using my iPhone and wrote the Haiku, attached below, while relaxing and enjoying the beautiful scenery all around us.

The river bank walk towards the waterfall

The Barwon river below the cascade

The gentle cascade at Buckleys Falls, and the Historic Paper Mill in the background

The Barwon River Reserve Picnic area, where I wrote the poem, and Frankie enjoying his bushwalk outing.

For a comprehensive article about the Buckleys Falls River Reserve, you may like to open this > https://waterfallseasons.com/waterfalls-in-victoria-buckley-falls-geelong.htm

Waterfall (a Haiku)

Within urban sprawl

There is a gentle cascade

Scenic Buckleys Falls

Music/Video Below: Please enjoy this beautifully scenic performance by Sigur Rós, Live In Ásbyrgi, of Hoppípolla & Með blóðnasir …