Category: The Moon

Our Blossoming Twilight Moon

Please Note, that the Featured Illustration above (Moon and Tree) is by Kerri Costello and is the Introduction Drawing for Chapter 8 (Poetry In Slow Motion) of my new book, “Until Eyes Hear Sound”





Our Blossoming Twilight Moon


Day after day glides by

And I watch you gradually grow


In the blossoming blue sky

While my grasping little toe


Clings on to the last endearing bonsai

A remnant from the new world’s crumbling chateau








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Ivor Steven (c) February 2024

Do You See the Sound? 





Do You See the Sound? 

 
 
 
Oh, great spirit of the sky 

My eyes hear the sound  

Of your moonbeam’s cry  

A message so profound 

Sadly, echoing the unearthly tremors  

Of whales and pelicans distressed murmurs  


This world has an abundance  

Of digital receiving towers  

And trillions of mobile phones  

To interpret your ethereal moon-rays


 

Cannot they see the sound?  

From under the oceans  

Cannot they feel the ground?  

Beyond today’s horizon  

Cannot they hear the drowned? 








Ivor Steven (c) November 2023

Moon Dew

Please Note: All attached Photos presented in this article were taken by Derrick Knight, and he has kindly allowed me reproduce them here on my poetry site. You may visit his wonderful article, and site by clicking on this link >> https://derrickjknight.com/2023/10/02/moons-for-denzil/



Moon Dew 

 
 
The moon slithered  

into my bedroom 

through a crack beside  

her nostalgic heirloom  

and lowered himself 

onto my breastplate  

stared into my eyes  

and told me straight 


“There is no need for tears  

I am here to ease your fears 

before I leave  

I will give you  

a loving spoonful  

of magical moon dew  

my universal cure  

for the morning blues” 


“Thank you, Mr. Moon”  

as I joyfully sipped  

from his silver spoon




 




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Ivor Steven (c) October 2023

Duck Muck

I’ve had one of those yucky weeks, my computer has been moonstruck and running amok and producing guck. My “Taskbar” keeps flying south with the Ducks!! I’m feeling like an ice-puck all out of luck. So, I apologise for my moody unstuck poem of bushbuck …


Duck Muck




Sucking more air

Life sucks


Evading the sloppy duck muck

Dodging the dusty garbage truck 

Never having enough bucks

To fill the milk bucket

Left empty by bloodsucking

Schmucks






Ivor Steven (c) Sept 2023

A Cold Winter Moon



There, above the quivering horizon

I see a winter moon’s shadow

Falling from a cold lonely sky


There, above the afternoon’s icy dome

I see a winter moon’s silver spoon

Consuming tomes of unread poems

Falling from a vacant pillow in my bedroom







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Ivor Steven (c) May 2023

The Universe of Love and Light (a Tanka)

The Crescent Moon and Venus 6.10pm, April 23rd




The Universe of Love and Light (a Tanka)




The Moon and Venus

Crystalize the twilight sky

Together they dance

She, in the crescent moon’s arms

Love unites the universe







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Ivor Steven (c) April 2023

I’m Almost Home (a Haiku)



I’m Almost Home (a Haiku)




Could the stars be right

That life is almost perfect

Tonight’s moon agrees






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Ivor Steven (c) November 2022

Off-white

Featured Image Above: ‘Mushrooms’ taken by Derrick Knight, and thank you to Derrick for allowing me reproduce his photos here on my poetry site.
>> https://derrickjknight.com/2022/11/02/ibsley-ford/
Special Announcement: Today I have a “Copy” of “Our” new book Perceptions for me to proofread on the weekend


Off-white


White moon and white mushrooms

White doggie and white clouds

Here my writer’s world is a chromatic lamplight

After the passing of my gracious Aphrodite


Now I dream tonight

About the earth’s broken stalactites

And how the atmosphere is turning a sickly off-white

Like a grubby plastic skylight


Now with foresight

My tethered “Itmims” craft is ready and watertight

And awaits her saviours next spaceflight




“Itmims” … Ivor’s Time Machine In Micro Space








Ivor Steven (c) November 2022