Nature – Page 8 – Ivor.Plumber/Poet

Magpies and Butterflies

Magpies and Butterflies

Our sad solar eye

Is hiding behind a misty sky

Why do you cry?

The golden age did not die

Nor are we waving goodbye

Despite the state of our pigsty

Verbal bullshit deeper than knee-high

One day soon, we will try

To become nature’s ally

Turn ourselves into the good guys

With clip-on clean green bowties

Then, save our magpies and butterflies

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Ivor Steven (c) February 2023

Birds in Flight

The Weekend Challenge from Weekly Prompts is the word: OLD. Please go over and visit their fabulous site by clicking on >> Here

This morning I luckily managed to take several bird in flight photos using my “Old” Apple iPhone. Of course, I had to enhance and enlarge them, but fortunately, a few of the photos came out ok, and subsequently, with excited enthusiasm I wrote this poem “Birds in Flight”.

Birds in Flight

Our spirit birds sleep all night

Then emanate at first light

To resume their dedicated flights

Our watchtower sentinels of Mother Earth

Who sacredly ascend at first light

Forever in flight, since nature’s worldly birth

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Ivor Steven (c) February 2023

Throwback Friday, Birds on Wires (July 2010), by Ivor Steven

At “Go Do Go Cafe” earlier today …
>> https://godoggocafe.com/2023/02/10/throwback-friday-birds-on-wires-july-2010-by-ivor-steven/

Last month I posted a poem on my website which was also Titled “Birds on Wirds”, however my Throwback poem from July 2010 is completely different, and in keeping with my poetic theme about birds lately I thought It would be appropriate to repost my first “Birds on Wires” poem here today …

Birds on Wires (July 2010)

Here on the edge of lower earth

Beyond the urban concrete girth

Withering trees are trying to grow

Reaching for that mystical power flow

Hungering for energy from contaminated ground

Not the airwaves of false sonic sound

Man-made arrows cluttering the sky

Unnatural webs soaring high

Bird dodging spires

Hanging on cold steel wires

Carriers of these modern times

The pulse of humanities crimes

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Ivor Steven (c) July 2020

Let Us Grow (a Memento), is up at Coffee House Writers Magazine

Hello dear readers and followers, I now write for “Coffee House Writers” magazine on a fortnightly basis, and my poem “Let Us Grow (a Memento)”, is in this week’s edition of Coffee House Writers Magazine. … please click on the link below to read my poem, at Coffee House Writers. >> https://coffeehousewriters.com/let-us-grow/

“The Great Gates Of Kiev”, Writer(s): Greg Lake, Keith Noel Emerson
How amazingly appropriate for todays world, written in 1971

Come forth, from love’s pyre
Born in life’s fire,
Born in life’s fire
Come forth, from love’s pyre
In the burning, of our yearning
For life to be
And in pain there will (must) be gain
New Life!

Stirring in salty streams
And dark hidden seams
Where the fossil sun gleams

They were, sent from (to) the gates
Ride the tides of fate
Ride the tides of fate
They were, sent from (to) the gates
In the burning of our yearning
For life to be

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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

Birds on Wires

Birds on Wires

Weary gray clouds

Lay anchored in the sky

Moist air hangs breathless

Not a wisp to disperse the flies

An anxious sweaty dampness

Clings to everything

Birds on wires sit motionless

Waiting for a thermal updraft

To lift spirits beyond this world of smallness

Where greed and wars seem senseless

And remain the leader’s primary craft

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Ivor Steven (c) January 2023

Beyond Darkness (a Haiku)

The Weekend Challenge from Weekly Prompts is the word: GLOW , please go over and visit their fabulous site by clicking on >> Here … The Haiku below is my response to the Prompt “Glow”.