A cold winters morn
Another new dawn
I’m refreshed, I’m alive
I roll myself over
Onto my tummy
Elbows on my pillow
The curtains are open
Gazing out the window
Through the leaves and red flowers
Of my Jazzi Bougainvillea
My courtyard’s looking homely
A havens scenery
My forest fernery
Full of natures greenery
I’m feeling cosy and dreamy
Comfy in my writers aviary
Ivor Steven (c) 2018
Really “Politics Isn’t My Thing”., but please read this wonderfully intriguing poem by Cosmic Poetry, she writes with a lot of feeling.
Do you every have that vacant feeling
Silently in a void, wandering
Darkness has fallen
Clouds shroud the moon
Misty rain cools the night-air
Wondering what happened to your day-time
Hours of down-time
What have you done
Memories of your day have gone
Nothing in your hand
Blankness in your mind
Decoding untold stories
Writing on pure white pages
Words of invisible ink
Ink that runs away
Eloping with your pen
To find a better day
Leaving you empty again
Ivor Steven (c) 2018
Thank you Laura Denise of , https://ardorsgarden.wordpress.com for creating and selecting me to play in 3.2.1. Quote Me! I’ve thoroughly enjoyed our in-depth conversation about the changing attitudes toward poetry and literature.
Literature is now the topic for this fun extension! Grab a quote about literature off Google or share your own wisdom. Create your own post or comment and tag.
My two aphorisms I’m contributing to the theme are…
Not all literature is perfect, none of us are perfect – Ivor Steven
Stories emanate from the heart. Literature lives in every heartbeat – Ivor Steven
Here are the game guidelines:
1. Thank the Selector
2. Post 2 quotes for the dedicated Topic of the Day.
3. Select 3 bloggers to take part in ‘3.2.1 Quote Me!’
Play with us,
Claudia, at Humoring The Goddess
Marta, at Moments
Sara, at SarainLaLaLand
Other readers, feel free to play, too!
Cheers. Ivor.
I’ve a red-hot poker in my belly
I’m bleeding fiery ember ashes
Choking my blackened reality
Blinded by my burning eyelashes
…….
Please don’t kick me
Pick me up, I’m free
Carry me one more mile
My stone-face will smile
…….
Green blankets everything
Under our earth’s blue sky
From here to your side
…….
May you balance like a petite ballerina
Toe-pointing your way through the tulips
May you taste fragrances of truth and pleasure
Tip-toeing gently upon your goddesses flower
Ivor Steven (c) 2018
Please read if you are concerned at what’s going on, and how Europe feels about America. A very interesting article.
I’ve been out celebrating my sporting Club’s 60th Anniversary, it’s been a fab’ event, and I’ve thoruoghly enjoyed myself, and i won’t be “able” to do much commenting over the next day or so(Hic).
Well I don’t expect you all to understand, but that doesn’t matter, please be happy and enjoy what you’re doing in life xx
Time bygone, This Lost Shadow
Words written, your May Day
Timed out at one-fifteen
An afternoon, vividly clear
Words written, a tragic play
Remembering my Gracious Lady
A Midday Sun, you were gold
Words of moonlight, and silver too
Words under stars, celestial and bold
Words upon oceans, purples and blue
Words on fire, Smouldering beams
Words Rain In May, your favourite green
Words cry tears, Liquid Joy and mellow
Words an eternal vault, In My Mind
Words of sorrow and tomorrow
Words of love, you were my dove
Life’s colours, you were every hue
A life story, coloured and true
The words in Italic, are all referring to poems of mine that have appeared on my blog site here since I started on June 7th 2017, https://ivors20.wordpress.com/2017/11/09/this-lost-shadow-3/ https://ivors20.wordpress.com/2017/09/06/gracious-lady/ https://ivors20.wordpress.com/2017/10/19/a-midday-sun/ https://ivors20.wordpress.com/2017/07/07/smoldering/ https://ivors20.wordpress.com/2018/01/12/rain-in-may/ https://ivors20.wordpress.com/2017/06/07/a-few-words/ https://ivors20.wordpress.com/2018/04/17/in-my-mind/
Ivor Steven (c) 2018
Hi To All My Wonderful Readers.
Please visit Robert Okaji’s site here, he’s an extraordinary poet, and especially this post/article of his, which I found both very interesting and FUN. Download his incredible MicroChap Book “Only This”, and do have a go at the “origami” of making his book, I’m sure you’ll be pleased with the outcome !! And enjoy the read ..
My latest micro-chapbook, Only This, is available via free download from Origami Poems Project. Many thanks to editor Jan Keough for taking this!
Find folding hints here.
Poems by Candice Daquin, of TheFeatheredSleep, are always thought provoking, and I’m pleased to recommended her works to all my readers.
Daquin’s own life, traveling from her native France, via England, Canada and finally the US, has brought a myriad of experiences that others have often been able to tap into via her writing. A collection of lives really, and with this, she tries to weave greater meaning through poetry and touch those who experience similar questions, doubts, and hopes. Surely this is what writing attempts in its very human form?
Daquin’s themes include feminism in its complex, everyday form, and the experience of being a woman, a gay woman, a bi-racial woman, a bi-cultural woman and finally, a Jewish woman of Egyptian extraction (Mizrahi) and how this sits with the world’s current revolt between the dominant faiths.
“I have been told from readers of my published and non-published works that reading poetry which resonates with your emotions, helps you see things clearer, assists in remembering what really matters and enables you…
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