A Fern Called “Hope”
I am home again
How did that happen
I wonder about life
Watering my fern called “Hope”
Tell me how
There is more to life
Now that I am home
Eating bananas and ice-cream
Tell me when
There is more to life
Now that I am home
Listening to tunes of mine
Tell me whatever
There is more to life
Now that I am home
Drinking a red wine
Tell me why
There is more to life
Now that I am home
Dreaming of you tonight
Today I am presenting the “second” ‘5min’ poem that I wrote at Ali Grimsham’s ‘Writing Circle’ Zoom meeting, that I attended on Monday this week, and this was my 4rd session/week with the group, and I am having a delightful time. Here is the page link to get more information about the next writing circle. https://flashlightbatteries.blog/online-writing-circles/ Tickets by donation. All are welcome.
Memory Questions
Where do timeless memories dwell
Why don’t they stay in their padded cell
Where are the corridors of their whisper taunts
How do they escape the deepest of haunts
Why emerge on every celebration day
Who is in charge of the padlock today
Ivor Steven (c) Feb 2021
Again it’s that time of the week where I present another ‘5min’ poem that I have written at one of Ali Grimsham’s ‘Writing Circle’ Zoom meetings that I attend on Monday’s, and this was my 4rd session with the group, and I am having a fantastic time … Here is the page link to get more information about the next writing circle. https://flashlightbatteries.blog/online-writing-circles/ Tickets by donation. All are welcome.
Who Hears Me
My ears are funnels
But I do not want to hear
The voices
My lips do part
But I do not speak
The words
My knees do bend
But I cannot sit
While I can still stand
My eyes are open
But I do not want to see
My shadow falling
Ivor Steven (c) Feb 2021
Today I’m presenting more of my comments, that I post on other writers articles when I am doing my blogging.. Here below, are words I’ve sent to, Dwight, Colleen, Mich, and Colleen again … and I’ve arrange the stanza’s in an order, so as to read like one ‘poem’ , and I think the different “pieces” blended together ok..
In Pieces
“We are a finite speck of the infinite
Our time is but a spark of light
Our existence is the life of a micro battery
Just an electron of the universe’s hatchery” .. To Dwight
“You are the soft glowing beams of moon light
Illuminating the creation of every day
You are my life’s golden stairway” … To Colleen
“These beautiful dreamy words from your heart
Do tickle the celestial sparkles from my soul-mate” … To Mich
“I have seen the eye of every violent storm
And now I rest easy on the station’s outgoing platform” .. To Colleen
Ivor Steven (c) Feb 2021
I’ve been very busy lately, conversing with my publisher about my upcoming book, so my poetry is taking backstage at the moment, but as ‘Dwight’ would say, “You’ve always got that ‘stash’ of anecdote comments that you store away”…. Well here’s a little satirical comment that wrote to Beth, of I didn’t have my glasses on…
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 box
And here begun “All Creation”
The first born “Apple iPhone Box”
Ivor Steven (c) Feb 2021
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Ivor Steven (c) January 2021
We trash our planet
With disdain and dirty tears
No matter who rule’s
Feature Image above: View of Geelong, painting by Eugene von Guerard, that is on display in the Geelong Art Gallery
Ivor Steven (c) January 2021
I entered my poem “A Window Stain” in the, EIF Tanka Challenge, and the Results were: Joint Second Place: Jaya Avendel & Ivor Steven
Please go and visit ‘Experiments In Fiction’ fabulous site by clicking on this link.. . >> Experiments in Fiction – Stories without Borders
A Window Stain, (a Tanka)
Evening tears ebb through
the window of last year’s stain
Fear closes the door
Tonight, the moon is brighter
Today the pane is clearer
Ivor Steven (c) January 2021
Today I am presenting the “second” ‘5min’ poem that I wrote at Ali Grimsham’s ‘Writing Circle’ Zoom meeting, that I attended on Monday this week, and this was my 3rd session/week with the group, and I am having a delightful time. Here is the page link to get more information about the next writing circle. https://flashlightbatteries.blog/online-writing-circles/ Tickets by donation. All are welcome.
And I’ve also entered my poem in this week’s challenge from “Weekly Prompts” is the word; PRANK. Please go over visit their fabulous site by clicking >> HERE
Playing Cards
To many questions
And I, have not the answers
I am running out of rhyme
It it time?
To go back to school
Me, a forgetful old fool
Or, I could stay here
Wait for the anteater to cheer
Sit in my garden courtyard
Avoid soul searching and just play cards
With Oscar the wise old owl
And Phillip the penguin, he’s my pal
Ivor Steven (c) January 2021
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