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In Pieces

Today I’m presenting more of my comments, that I post on other writers articles when I am doing my blogging.. Here below, are words I’ve sent to, Dwight, Colleen, Mich, and Colleen again … and I’ve arrange the stanza’s in an order, so as to read like one ‘poem’ , and I think the different “pieces” blended together ok..



In Pieces


“We are a finite speck of the infinite 

Our time is but a spark of light 

Our existence is the life of a micro battery 

Just an electron of the universe’s hatchery” .. To Dwight

 

“You are the soft glowing beams of moon light  

Illuminating the creation of every day  

You are my life’s golden stairway” … To Colleen 

“These beautiful dreamy words from your heart 

Do tickle the celestial sparkles from my soul-mate” … To Mich 

“I have seen the eye of every violent storm 

And now I rest easy on the station’s outgoing platform” .. To Colleen






Ivor Steven (c) Feb 2021

Creation ??

I’ve been very busy lately, conversing with my publisher about my upcoming book, so my poetry is taking backstage at the moment, but as ‘Dwight’ would say, “You’ve always got that ‘stash’ of anecdote comments that you store away”…. Well here’s a little satirical comment that wrote to Beth, of I didn’t have my glasses on…


Creation ??

Eve’s enticing apple 

Fell from God’s tree 

And hit young Newton 

On his hairy head 

Then the apple rolled away 

Into Bell’s telephone box 

And here begun “All Creation” 

The first born “Apple iPhone Box” 





Ivor Steven (c) Feb 2021

A Window Stain

I entered my poem “A Window Stain” in the, EIF Tanka Challenge, and the Results were: Joint Second Place: Jaya Avendel & Ivor Steven
Please go and visit ‘Experiments In Fiction’ fabulous site by clicking on this link.. . >> Experiments in Fiction – Stories without Borders


A Window Stain, (a Tanka)

Evening tears ebb through

the window of last year’s stain

Fear closes the door

Tonight, the moon is brighter

Today the pane is clearer




Ivor Steven (c) January 2021

Playing Cards

Today I am presenting the “second” ‘5min’ poem that I wrote at Ali Grimsham’s ‘Writing Circle’ Zoom meeting, that I attended on Monday this week, and this was my 3rd session/week with the group, and I am having a delightful time. Here is the page link to get more information about the next writing circle. https://flashlightbatteries.blog/online-writing-circles/ Tickets by donation. All are welcome.

And I’ve also entered my poem in this week’s challenge from “Weekly Prompts” is the word; PRANK. Please go over visit their fabulous site by clicking >> HERE



Playing Cards

To many questions

And I, have not the answers

I am running out of rhyme

It it time?

To go back to school

Me, a forgetful old fool

Or, I could stay here

Wait for the anteater to cheer

Sit in my garden courtyard

Avoid soul searching and just play cards

With Oscar the wise old owl

And Phillip the penguin, he’s my pal





Ivor Steven (c) January 2021

Anomaly

Today I am presenting another ‘5min’ poem that I have written at one of Ali Grimsham’s ‘Writing Circle’ Zoom meetings that I attend on Monday’s, and this was my 3rd session with the group, and I am having a delightful time. Here is the page link to get more information about the next writing circle. https://flashlightbatteries.blog/online-writing-circles/ Tickets by donation. All are welcome.



Anomaly

I see a stone wall of sad faces

the refugees from different places

Shuffling on old shredded boot laces

wearing tattered clothes and frozen braces

These lost cultures of opposite races

begging for water and food traces

living out of torn tents and empty suitcases

And here, people play games in cyberspaces





Ivor Steven (c) January 2021

Swan

Featured Image Above: A photograph I copied from Derrick Knight’s fabulous site, and was taken by his wife Jackie. You may visit his article/site by clicking on this link >> Preening Swans – derrickjknight


Swan




Honouring the ancient lakes of Aberdeen

Are you our planet’s queen

Shyly overseeing this world’s fading green



Serenely grateful and gracious

Solemnly thoughtful and virtuous

Calmly valorous and veracious




No matter your birthright

You are equally adorned black or white

Colour is not your feathers blight

But nature’s pearls of delight






Ivor Steven (c) January 2021

Proudly the Music Plays

The inauguration was an awesome event, and here in Australia I could sense the importance of this day, and here is my little tribute to the occasion…
Featured Image Above: GettyImages/miami.cbslocal

Proudly the Music Plays

The grand day was but a windfall

Of upstanding pyramids in time

And I, a tiny cog in the world’s clock

Was proud to have my feet back on this rock


Where I could hear the sounds of nature

Playing a harmonious tune about the future

And her music became the ink in my quill

Floating upon every solemn word I did spill






Ivor Steven (c) January 2021

A Moments Reprieve



A Moments Reprieve



Yesterday’s roadside kill

Was an accident, written by my quill

This morning, I spoke to our broken world

And we agreed, to give life another whirl

During moments like these

Here feeling a summer breeze

Caress my sweaty brow

I rest under our trees leafy bows

Where I do savour the air I breathe

Where I do relax and take my leave

To appreciate a moments reprieve

As I drift into my world of make believe

With My Dragon for protection at my side

And those mischievous faeries as my trusty guides



Featured Image: wallpapersafari.com




Ivor Steven (c) January 2021