Category: Poems

Blinded By the Light 





Blinded By the Light 


 
 
Good morning golden one 

Can you see us? 

From above the world’s pieces 

Of tattered sky 

We are the ones 

Wearing smeared makeup 

Around our weeping eyes


 

Good morning gifted one 

Can you save us? 

From the world’s darkening clouds 

Of hard rain 

We are the ones 

Wearing molten mascara 

Blinding our silent eyes 








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Ivor Steven (c) June 2023


Seven Shades of Gray





Seven Shades of Gray 


 
 
My morning is not ruined 

The sky has finished crying 

And the awakening winter sun 

Begins painting the clouds  

In shades of coral gray  

Artfully illuminating my day  









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Ivor Steven (c) June 2023

Throwback Friday, Empty Streets and Lonely Chairs

Today I am presenting another poem that will be appearing in my new book “Until Eyes Hear Sound”. I wrote ‘Empty Streets and Lonely Chairs’ in August 2020, and the poem will be the openining piece in Chapter 4. The New World? The Same Universe!



Empty Streets and Lonely Chairs


The witty city ones

Don’t get to see all of the sun

They rant and grimace during the day

At night you’ll hear them cry and bay

Their barks are worse than their bites

If they saw the white wolf they’d get a fright



The icing has melted on their cakes

And run off with their dirty plates

Behind masks, mesmerised eyes blankly stare

At the city’s empty streets and lonely chairs

There’s too many people in the same boat

This ancient raft’s struggling to stay afloat

There’s not enough life-jackets for the crowd

Some will drown, others will stand proud






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Ivor Steven (c) June 2023

Below the Trees and Bushes, is up at Masticadores USA


A big thank you to the Editor: Barbara Leonhard, for accepting and publishing my poem “Below the Trees anbd Bushes” at MasticadoresUsa.



How far, is too far?

Too far away from home

Too far away from love  


Love does not grow on trees

Love grows inside trees

……….

To view my entire poem at MasticadoresUsa, please click on this link >>
https://masticadoresusa.wordpress.com/2023/06/20/below-the-trees-and-bushes-by-ivor-steven/

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Ivor Steven © June 2023

Winter Solstice




The winter sun subsides

Behind white frosty clouds

And the cold setting light

Submerges under twilight’s

Curtain of icy darkness








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Ivor Steven (c) June 2023

Throwback Friday, Cocoons of Hope

Today’s ‘Throwback” poem, from September 2020, will appear in my upcoming new book “Until Eyes Hear Sound” … It’ll be the 1st poem in “Chapter 3. Nature and Existence”




Cocoons of Hope


the wizard’s blizzards have melted

dormant cocoons are wriggling

spring has exploded

out of the starter’s gun

with an awakening bang

and the chirpy blackbirds

are chorusing a different tune

their winter blue songs have gone

suddenly, warmth and sunshine

muster in the air

heralding a new season

of hope and prosperity






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Ivor Steven (c) June 2023

Down To the Valley





Down To the Valley 

 
 
Roaming. 

Off the beaten track 

Over sagged wire fences 

Through plowed fields 

Down to the valley below 

Where sunflowers grow 


Detouring. 

Across the babbling brook 

Toward the castle of broken glass 

Cocooned together in woven grass 

Until time awakens the past 








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Ivor Steven (c) June 2023

An Untravelled Highway

Hello dear readers and followers, I am now back writing for “Coffee House Writers” magazine, and my poem “An Untravelled Highway”, is in this week’s edition of Coffee House Writers Magazine. … please click on the link below and visit my poem, at Coffee House Writers Magazine. >> https://coffeehousewriters.com/an-untraveled-highway/


An Untravelled Highway


Hello newcomer

How long have you been there?

A stranger in a strange land

Standing alone on harsh ground

Living between a barbwire barrier

And an untraveled highway


Where do you come from?

My coloured one

Where are you going?

Within our vast island home

I wonder. Will you be accepted

By other pretentious squatters  

With tolerance and compassion 







Ivor Steven (c) June 2023

I Could Be Wrong





I Could Be Wrong?


I have completed my ‘New Folder’ of poems

And I am satisfied with my final 160 selections

Sometimes my words sound young and wild

Other times my poems are nostalgic and mild


I write about what my eyes hear

I hear the stars sing to my soul

I see the universe in a blade grass

I feel love and compassion flow from my heart


I have been pondering about a book ‘Title’

For this latest collection of poems

I have tentatively chosen, “Until Eyes Hear Sound”

And I am wondering?

Am I right, or am I wrong?








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Ivor Steven (c) June 2023

Animal Clouds

At Weekly Prompts, the Weekend Challenge is the word: Fresh. Please go over and visit their fabulous site by clicking on >> Here … Below is my response to their prompt Fresh.


Animal Clouds


 

Today, the shapely edges of my sky 

Formed a gigantic picture frame 

Around nature’s enigmatic blue canvas 

A magical background for the awaiting clouds 

To project their showy animal images on 


 

Then the cinematic masterpiece rolled in 

There above I saw a white Whale float by 


And across in the corner of the screen  

A Cheetah crept in, ready to pounce 

Upon the sleepy afternoon moon 









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Ivor Steven (c) June 2023