Over at Weekly Prompts, the monthly Colour Challenge for April is, Silver. To visit their fabulous site please click on >> Here
A Silver Teaspoon Moon (a Haiku)
My twilight surprise
A silvery teaspoon moon
Peeps out from the clouds
Ivor Steven © April 2025
Following the overwhelming success of “Petals of Haiku,” which captured hearts and souls and became an Amazon bestseller, Literary Revelations Publishing House brings you “Tranquility: An Anthology of Haiku.” This new anthology will enchant readers with its delicate imagery and transitory moments, which inscribe themselves in eternity. Featuring nearly 260 talented authors, each bringing their talent and unique perspectives, Tranquility invites you to immerse yourself in a world where night flowers bloom and whispers linger in the spring air. Poets are prophets linked to nature. Haiku is their language.
In haiku, seriousness and fun coexist beautifully, reminding us that it is okay to embrace both sides of our daily experiences. Consider how haiku can reflect on life’s weighty themes sometimes with a lighthearted twist. The god of haiku knows that laughter is just as profound as solemnity.
In philosophy, solemnity can feel heavy—like wearing an overstuffed winter coat on a sunny day. But then comes laughter, lightening the load and reminding us that life is not all deep dives; sometimes, it’s about splashing in puddles most graciously and beautifully.
Ivor Steven (c) April 2025
A Cayenne Sunset
From in between the evening tide clouds
The sun proudly unveils a spectacle for the crowd
The fluorescent setting sun converges
With the horizon’s shimmering verges
Just before the cayenne sun submerges
And just then
I imagined the sun to be a yellow submarine
Entering the Earth’s sacred Sistine
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Until Eyes Hear Sound
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Perceptions:
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Tullawalla:
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Ivor Steven © April 2025
Today’s Throwback Friday poem is from July 2021.
Beyond Dark, There is Light (Revised)
Looking back
What do you see?
Tall mountains and a dark sky that surround me
Looking back
What do you see?
Bottomless wells and a deep river inside me
Looking back
What do you see?
Melted snowflakes and icy tears that drown me
Looking back
What do you see?
Treasured memories and a brave soul that revives me
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Until Eyes Hear Sound
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Ivor Steven © April 2025
A Silhouette Quote: “The faceless silhouettes seemed to look at each other, as if wishing they could resolve the situation between themselves, without having to trouble their owners.”
― Hernan Diaz, Trust
Statuettes and Silhouettes
Without Indulging in the planet’s regrets
Or wearing any showy epaulets
Our golden sun peacefully sets
Meanwhile
From the shady balconies of the ruler’s minarets
When will our world’s shadowy statuettes
Leave the safety of their bassinets
And unite our twilight’s
Xenophobic silhouettes?
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Until Eyes Hear Sound
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Ivor Steven © April 2025
Photo credit; Rob Mulally @ Unsplash
Today, my Haiku is in response to Sadje’s WDYS # 282. To visit her fabulous site please click on >> Here
Below are my ‘Sunny Bird Images’ from yesterday
The Sun Loves Everything (a Haiku)
From above the doves
The sun kisses everything
In the name of love
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Ivor Steven © April 2025
Hello, dear readers and followers. I write for Coffee House Writers magazine (USA) fortnightly, and my poem “Oh, My Waning Moon” is in this week’s edition. …
To read my poem, please click on the link below to visit the article, at Coffee House Writers Magazine.
>> https://coffeehousewriters.com/oh-my-waning-moon/
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Ivor Steven © April 2025
FREE PDF COPY >>> Links Below
Hello, dear readers and followers. As you might know, I stopped producing my “Tullawalla Booklets” at # 31 because that was the house number of our family’s Tullawalla Homestead.
But the booklet formats are a superb way for me to catalogue the vast number of poems I produce and as the saying goes “I Am Turning Another Page”. Here I have begun a new series of poem booklets, called “Shangri La” which is the name of my little Villa, and is my piece of “earthly paradise, a retreat from the pressures of modern civilization”.
I now have “1950” Poems filed in these booklet formats!!
(on my bookshelf I have “The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, which contains 1775 poems … when I first started writing poems, I never envisaged that I would produce so many poems)
Click on >> Here, for the link to your FREE: PDF Copy of “Shangri La, Volume 13, Below My Crown”
OR … Shangri La, Vol 13, Below My Crown.pdf
Below My Crown
Deep into the Twilight Zone
At that moment above the horizon
When the sun is sliding down
Underneath his eiderdown
Nature dons her noble crown
And declares to everyone in town
“There’s no need to be a sad clown
or wear a worried frown.
Take your time to have a look around,
the world is not falling down”
Ivor Steven © March 31st 2025
Today’s poem was my inspired poetic response to David’s “Sijo”, ‘Of all things, or: Bridge to nowhere’. >> https://skepticskaddish.com/2025/03/28/of-all-things-or-bridge-to-nowhere/
Over at Weekly Prompts, since it’s the last weekend of the month, “One Day” is again the monthly Prompt! To visit their fabulous site, please click on >> Here
One Day, or: Bless My Soul
Beneath our feet, there lies a common mound
Between our ears, the winds of time hear no sound
Below our eyes, the promised land cannot be found
Within our hearts, we share the lost and drowned
Beyond our souls, the world’s burial grounds
Belong to the hounds, who run the battlegrounds
Ivor Steven © March 2025
Birds on Show (a Haiku)
Nature’s Birds on show
Flying the indigo sky
And among the trees
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OR: >> You may email me directly for a signed copy at
ivorrs20@gmail.com
Ivor Steven © March 2025
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