Please Let Them Grow (a Tanka)
Ravages of war
Shall not weary their progress
United they stand
Strong and resilient they grow
Let the earth be their witness
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Ivor Steven (c) January 2023
Defiantly (a Haiku)
Sunflowers do bloom
Through the war of destruction
Bravely defiant
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Ivor Steven (c) January 2023
On Weekly Prompts, the Weekend Challenge is the word; BEND. Please go over and visit their fabulous site by clicking on >> Here . The poem below does have the word ‘Bend’ in it, and that’ll be close enough for me …
Featured Image: Another marvelous photo by, Derrick Knight >> https://derrickjknight.com
The World’s Fractured Mirror
At the close of day
Sunset’s empty Amphitheatre
Descends across a bend in the twilight zone
And semidarkness
Oppresses the horizon’s
Endangered vanishing point
What loiters beyond
The skylines diminishing aurora?
Will the night-fires of war
Continue to be entrapped
For ever and ever, inside
The world’s fractured mirror
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Ivor Steven (c) January 2023
An Unseeded Renewal (a Tanka)
Sunflowers of peace
We have not forgotten you
The war has not stopped
Killing fields are still on fire
Young stems need help to survive
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Ivor Steven (c) January 2023
One of best Haiku, according to some of my fellow poets here in Geelong, which I penned in June 2020
Featured Photo Above: A painting by Carole Steven
One Land (a Haiku) Tullawalla, page 119
Upon our torn earth
Let’s sit around the camp fire
One circle of sand
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Ivor Steven (c) November 2022
Rudolf meets Frankie
Now, five weeks before Christmas
World peace is their wish
Ivor Steven (c) November 2022
In May this year, I attended an Ekphrastic Poetry Workshop at the Foundry Studio & Gallery. Today’s Poem/Tanka is another piece I wrote from that day, and which I have not posted on my site before now.
Featured Image Above: My photograph of, Lee McGrath’s fascinating painting, “Winter Flame Tree” (Acrylic on canvas)
A Sad Winter Flame (a Tanka)
Dismayed, how to stop
Leaning against the hard rain
Unseasonal pain
Sodden, a sad winter flame
Downtrodden, a stained Ukraine
Ivor Steven (c) November 2022
A big thank you to Dale, for who I wrote a 16 word poem/comment on her site
>> https://adelectablelife.com/2022/11/05/weekend-writing-prompt-284-rule/ …
which later on, inspired to me to create this poem and music/video combination.
Featured Image Above: My photo of the guest bedroom wall, from when I was staying at my cousin’s (Maureen) place, in Philadelphia, May 2019
Will the Doves Ever Be Free?
Sunday morning
The bells are petitioning
For more than a King’s Ransom
Sunday’s doves are loudly singing
Their unceasing
And unfinished Anthem
Beyond Sunday’s unanswered sessions
The bells will not stop resounding
The Chimes of Freedom
Ivor Steven (c) November 2022
The weather is wet and windy here in Ballarat, but that does’t matter. I’m resting, relaxing, and enjoying the break. Today’s poem is from June 2019.
Featured Image above; Street art on a building next door to the ‘Analogue Academy’, where my book launch was held on Saturday.
A Crescendo For Peace
Sounds of music, ring in my mind
Our hearts beat, to a slow drum
My soul hears the rhythm of life
I see angels playing a harp’s serenade
In harmony with the royal string quartet
Grand orchestra’s loudly join in
And choirs of the world are singing our song
Together, chiming the peace-bells of our time
Creating a crescendo of music, ringing in my mind
Ivor Steven (c) October 2022
Cassa Bassa. “It’s sad but reflecting a side of truth.
Ivor’s reply. “Despite humanity’s scientific advancements, their humanitarian skills are nonexistent”
Ask a Blade of Grass
Yesterday I looked up
At a grandfather clock
And saw the hands of time
Today I look above
At the gloomy clouds
And see beams of light
Appear through cracks in the sky
Tomorrow I will look down
At our war-torn ground
And ask a blade of grass
Why? Peace cannot be found
In our time
Ivor Steven (c) October 2022
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