Embarrassingly
Crimson roses stand alone
Under the hot sun
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A Cup of Coffee on The House
Fantasy.
A powerful Pacific Albatross
Gracefully landed on fairy-moss
That covered my welcoming pathway
And graciously handed me a sacred Mandala
Reality.
The postman delivered a special parcel today
A belated Christmas gift from America
A wonderful hand-painted coffee mug
And this afternoon I enjoyed
“A Cup of Coffee on The House”
Thanks to my friends at Coffee House Writers
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Today I wrote a Senryu and a Haiku, and they were both about the ‘nature’ of existence, so I thought I could present them here as the one poem … I think my idea worked ok.
Please Note, All Photos: were taken by Derrick Knight and are copied from his site and reproduced here on my post with his permission. >> https://derrickjknight.com
The Core (a Poem)
The Core (a Senryu)
Existence crawls down
Through my neck into the heart
Of where my soul lies
The Core (a Haiku)
Through the winds of time
Existence descends from trees
Perpetually
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Ivor Steven (c) January 2023
Over on Weekly Prompts, the Weekend Challenge is the word: Warning. Please go over and visit their fabulous site by clicking on >> Here
My poem below “Trees Without Shadows” is a subtle WARNING from Mother Nature.
Trees Without Shadows
A dry foggy dawn
Eerily gloomy for summer
Gray blurry clouds
Brazenly obscure the sun
And thirsty barren trees
Stand starkly without shadows
The becalmed and breathless world
Waits for the anchored sky
To hear the beckoning breeze
Be aroused by the atmosphere’s
Guardian spirit bird
Who ceremoniously flaps his wings
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Today I was prompted to revise my poem from June 2020, because I had just received a lovely hand-designed “Penguin Christmas Card” from my Philadelphia cousin.
There’s a Penguin In My Courtyard (Revised)
my courtyards a frozen pond
cold enough for a penguin
shards of ice lay upon the ground
and a crisp sharpness cuts the sound
of frost covered songbirds unsilenced
as fernery fronds curl in glaciated defiance
in the corner hangs a frigid spider’s web
above the crystlised succulent flower bed
and in a white sky the sun’s ambient saffron disc
again predicts that golden dawns do exist
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Ivor Steven (c) January 2023
Holes In Doors
My owner left me
Locked up in the courtyard
Nothing unusual about that
He left me some biscuit treats
And a full bowl of water
However, he forgot
To close the wire security screen
Well, best I break in
And protect our kennel
“What would you have done?”
I started clawing and chewing
At the exposed wood door
Firstly, I dug a small hole
An opening I could bite
My industrious teeth into
Whoops and drats!
There was another layer
On the inside too!
I wasn’t sure why
My boss told me off
When he arrived home
I thought I was only trying to help
He didn’t appreciate my creativity
Time passed and Christmas arrived
My extended family
Were joking and laughing
At my aunt’s gift for Dad
Woof, woof. “A Doggie Door for me!”
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A Sweaty Hat Day (a Haiku)
A hot summer sky
Above brown thirsty paddocks
Sweat drips off my hat
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Hello dear readers and followers, I now write for “Coffee House Writers” magazine on a fortnightly basis, and my poem “On Days Like These”, whch is an Assonance style of poetry, is in this week’s edition of Coffee House Writers Magazine. … please click on the link below to view my poem, at Coffee House Writers.
>> https://coffeehousewriters.com/on-days-like-these/
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