The Hands of Time

The Weekend Challenge on Weekly Prompts is the word: Property. You can visit their fabulous site by clicking on >> Here … My poem below, is about the elusive “Properties” of Time


The Hands of Time


Time and time again

I do not have enough time

I cannot catch time

I cannot see time

And sometimes

I have even lost time


No matter the time

I have no time

To write a rhyme

Clean sheets wait for new lines

Empty pages are in mime

I cannot remember the time

When my heart’s rhythm

Last ticked in time

With the spare time

Inside my mind








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Ivor Steven (c) July 2023

The Old and the New

“Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance” … John Keats

Today I went into the City for an appointment with my ‘Specialist’ … everything went well and my visit finished early … I had 20 minutes to spare until the next bus was due … Yeah! … enough time to sneak into the nearby “Second-hand Bookshop”


I purchased 2 Books, The Complete Poems of “John Keats”, oh, what an amazing find, a truly gifted young poet who died at the age of 26, and a new book, “Night Train”, by a local well-known poet, Anthony Lynch.


The Old.
John Keats: Sonnet on Peace (page 262)y


The New.
Anthony Lynch: Rats (page 6)








Ivor Steven (c) July 2023

Throwback Friday, Creation??

Today I am presenting another poem that will be appearing in my new book “Until Eyes Hear Sound”. I wrote ‘Creation??’ in February 2021, and the poem will be the opening piece in Chapter 9. Humour, Fantasy, Faeries, and Weird. 





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 booth

And here begun “All Creation”

The first born “Apple iPhone Box” 








Ivor Steven (c) July 2023

Not, Just Another Day (a Lanterne)

A Lanterne is a cinquain form of poetry, in which the first line has one syllable and each subsequent line increases in length by one syllable, except for the final line that concludes the poem with one syllable. Its name derives from the lantern shape that appears when the poem is aligned to the center of the page.


Not, Just Another Day
(a Lanterne)



Clang
Hells bells
Time to wake
I can’t be late
Jump

Bang
I fall
Out of bed
I can’t get up
Stuck

Yuk
Dog licks
No, no more
I’m awake now
Bolt

Out
The door
Cold and wet
Funeral gray
Jolt







Ivor Steven (c) July 2023

In The End

“When you’re sad and when you’re lonely and you haven’t got a friend
Just remember that death is not the end” … Bob Dylan


In The End


Destiny has his say

In the oddest of ways


Destiny has his way

Even on the finest of days


In the end

We do not have a say


At the end

Finality overtakes our stay








Ivor Steven ©  July 2023

Sadness (a Senryu)






Below the grayness

Naked emotions stumble

Between the shadows








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Ivor Steven (c) July 2023

Our Blushing Star (an Epigram) 

This is my 2nd Epigram poem and ‘I think” my piece qualifies as an Epigram format … If there is a literary reader/poet out there reading my poem, I would be glad to receive some advice.


Our Blushing Star (an Epigram) 
 
 
 

When I see an evening sky alight 

I wish upon our blushing Star 

With all my imaginable might 

For peace to be our only Avatar 









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Ivor Steven (c) July 2023

Throwback Friday, Taking Shape

Today I am presenting another poem that will be appearing in my new book “Until Eyes Hear Sound”. I wrote ‘Taking Shape’ in December 2020, and the poem will be the opening piece in Chapter 8. Poetry in Slow Motion. And ironically the day after my 72nd birthday, the poem is quite appropriate …




Taking Shape


Today I forgot the date

I’ve yet to set foot on the landscape

And I cannot recall last night’s videotape

Maybe I went to bed too late

Or did I drink too many of those red grapes

I’m fighting with my breakfast crepe

And losing the battle to look shipshape

It’s time to put on my battered Superman cape

And unlock last year’s rusty gate

Ready for next year’s great escape







Ivor Steven ©  July 2023