The Featured Image Above was taken by Jackie Knight, Derrick’s wife, and I have cropped it to fit the ‘Feature Image size’.
Over at Weekly Weekly Prompts, the Wednesday Challenge is the word: Eerie … You may visit their fabulous site by clicking on >> Here.
“Time is eerie, time is blind, and time takes no commands.”
Time is Blind (a Senryu)
A black clock stands guard
Atop a Town Square bollard
Time sees no graveyard
Ivor Steven (c) October 2024
Please Note: The photos were taken by Derrick Knight, and he kindly allows me to reproduce them here on my poetry site.
>> https://derrickjknight.com/2024/09/11/landscape-and-woodland/
Living On Solid Ground
Under a shady tree, I grow
I wriggle my toes
Into the moist mossy mound
Where the sun never touches the ground
I push upward without a sound
Wearing a small golden crown
That covers my short nightgown
Then I open and shakedown
Over the undergrowth’s brown eiderdown
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Ivor Steven (c) September 2024
Today’s Throwback poem is from June 2022, and is also in my book Perceptions, page 37.
Featured Image Above: by Derrick Knight > https://derrickjknight.com/2022/06/10/rich-pickings/
The Images below: are from my courtyard ..
The Ancient Fern Survives
Selfish, unopened minds remain numbed
False eyelashes are heavy and closed
Botoxed lips are silent and sealed
And elephant ears have been pegged out of sight
But there under our careless feet
The earth’s ferns have agelessly survived
Three hundred and sixty million years
Without changing the appearance of their golden leaves
That timelessly regenerate themselves
By naturally releasing their fertilising spores
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Ivor Steven (c) August 2024
Featured Image: Taken by Derrick Knight, who kindly allows me to reproduce his fabulous photos on my ‘Poetry Website’
>> https://derrickjknight.com/2024/07/06/save-by-the-bees/
“Bees”
Bustling busy bees
Brazenly brave
Benevolently beneficial
By behaviourally
Binding and bridging
Our beloved blossoms
They are the burlesque backbone
Behind every balmy breath
We blessedly breathe
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Ivor Steven (c) July 2024
Over at Weekly Prompts, the Wednesday Challenge is: Resilience
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Below is, the original introduction from my post in August 2020.
“Hello dear readers, I’ve been writing this poem over the last three days, and I was struggling to obtain any rhythm between thoughts and words, then I saw a wondrous photo on Derrick Knight’s blog/website this morning, (which is my ‘Featured Image’ above), and his picture of the glorious old oak tree, immediately channeled my thoughts, into that of strength and “resilience“, and from there, my Title was formed, and my words started to become a more cohesive piece of poetry…. Thank you, Derrick, for allowing me to use this beautiful and impressive photo, with my humble little poem.” >> https://derrickjknight.com/
Please Note; “Standing Upright” appears in our book “Perceptions”, a Collaboration of Poems and Photographs from Ivor Steven and Derrick Knight (Nov 2022)
Standing Upright
My heart’s bruised from bygone blood-stones
Threaded together by the spirits of old bones
And there resting within my aging body’s sway
I am shedding soulful droplets on sunny days
The world’s foul winds had blown me off my feet
After wobbling down cold and dusty streets
Then a modern medicine man came with his young tribe
Re-tuning my broken pieces with rhythmical vibes
And they declared my heartstrings to be plucky enough
To handle tomorrow’s mystery masks and travelers’ handcuffs
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Ivor Steven (c) July 2024
As many of you know, I am an appointed writer with the Coffee House Writers Magazine in the poetry section, and in the poetry group, we are given a monthly assignment on a different poem format. This month’s poetry classroom topic was to write a ‘Limerick’ … Below is the Limerick I presented for my July Assignment.
Featured Image: was taken by Derrick Knight, who kindly allows me to reproduce his wonderful photos on my poetry Website.
>> https://derrickjknight.com/2024/07/01/i-didnt-leave-the-car/
Under the Weeping Trees (a Limerick)
Resting here on my knees
Under the tall weeping trees
Waiting for my anxious mother
She’s out looking for my silly brother
He’s randy and went chasing the pretty fillies
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Ivor Steven (c) July 2024
Today, my Throwback Friday poem was originally inspired by the three photos in my article … The photos were all taken by Derrick Knight, who kindly allowed me to reproduce them here for my poem “Connected” …
The poem also appears in our collaborative Book of Poems and Photographs, “Perceptions”, on page 19.
You may visit Derrick’s fabulous site by clicking on this link >> https://derrickjknight.com/2021/11/19/traffic-control-duties/
Connected
up there
under draconian dark clouds
I see a blue moon rising
gracefully shrouding the horizon
meanwhile
back here
on terra firma
woodland autumn leaves are
colourfully crowning her mounds
where nature’s
unruffled fauna are found
gratefully grazing upon her
wounded ground
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Ivor Steven (c) May 2024
A poem I wrote in response to Derrick Knight’s article about “Clearing Up After Storm Gerrit” >> https://derrickjknight.com/2024/01/03/clearing-up-after-storm-gerrit/
Please Note: All photos in my post today were originally taken by Derrick Knight, and I have ‘cropped’ the ones below to fit my article
Stalking the Wards (a Tanka)
After the wild storm
Nature wears her old matron’s
Reigning uniform
Staying to stalk the ward’s lawns
And nurse flora back to norm
Ivor Steven (c) January 2024
Many of you know of my friendship with Derrick Knight … last night his property was lashed by gale force winds and in response to his article about the damage to his wonderful garden, I wrote this Haiku. >> https://derrickjknight.com/2023/12/21/fearing-for-the-weeping-birch/ Please Note; All photos reproduced on this post, were taken by Derrick
Nature’s Way (a Rhyming Haiku)
Be that as it may
Nature’s in charge of our days
We don’t have a say
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Ivor Steven (c) December 2023
Hello dear readers, I’ve just arrived back home after my evening out at the “Twilight Market” event … For me, the night was a balancing act between my general tiredness and my willingness to participate in the event. Good news, I managed to run my stall ok, but now this little old hero is on the tired end of the “seesaw” … 😴
The poem “Balance” is in “Our” book Perceptions (page 5), and the Featured Image Above, was taken by Derrick Knight >> https://derrickjknight.com/2020/07/14/keeping-its-balance/
Balance
There is a distant shore
Between why and when
Life is a seesaw
Between hero’s and heroine’s
There is a balance
Between ups and downs
Life is a challenge
Between smiles and frowns
There is a common ground
Between storms and calmness
Life is a humming sound
Between love and blindness
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Ivor Steven (c) December 2023
