Lunch With the Moon (a Haiku)
Clear blue winter sky
My lunchtime delight
With a Midday Moon
Ivor Steven (c) August 2024
Lunch with the Moon (a Haiku)
Patchwork Words
Today’s poem is created from an amalgamation of “4” anecdotes/comments that I have sent to my fellow WP sites in response to their fabulous poems/articles …
In stanza order, they are:
* Carol >> https://therapybits.com/2024/08/04/in-the-bright-patchwork-where-colors-collide/
* Mark >> https://havocandconsequence.wordpress.com/2024/08/07/ignore-ignited-flame/
* Michelle >> https://herwritinghaven.com/2024/08/07/hard/
* Willow >> https://willowdot21.wordpress.com/2024/08/07/wordless-wednesday-memories-3/
Patchwork Words
Our big wondrous world
Is like a well-worn patchwork quilt
Where the warmth of hope and love does not wilt
We fly through decades of storms
I wonder
Are we the pilot of our journeys
Our unreadable blueprints
Are only guidelines in black ink
To make us think
Of life’s kinks and chinks
And those indistinct
Instinctive missing links
Our treasured memories
Are like nursery rhymes
They stay in our minds forever
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Ivor Steven (c) August 2024
Throwback Friday, Sundown’s Flight
Last week, my poems were about nature’s theatrical light shows, and today’s Throwback poem is a very appropriate choice. Originally written in August 2019, and as is my way, I have rehashed my poem …
Sundown’s Flight
When I’m physically able
And feeling stable
I like to stroll down my dead-end lane
And study the sky’s weather vane
I see twilight clouds on the run
Being corralled by the setting sun
Shredding prisms of light, tonight’s benediction
Bright orange and grey, tomorrow’s ritzy prediction
From the horizon’s flamboyant ballet
A jazzy indication that storms are on the way
Then the shadowed treeline, merges with the cloudy red kites
And I stand here witnessing sundown’s dazzling flight
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Ivor Steven (c) August 2024
The Sun is Warmer (a Haiku)
Over at Weekly Prompts, the Wednesday challenge is the word – Irresistible. Please visit their wonderful website by clicking on >> Here
And I’m find the end of winter’s warmer sunshine, pleasingly “Irresistible”.
The Sun is Warmer (a Haiku)
Winter’s waning
And he cannot hold back spring
Warmly, the sun winks
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Ivor Steven (c) August 2024
Pockets Full of Stone
Pockets Full of Stones
I would like to fly away
On this cold wintry day
But my pockets are full of stones
And my old wings are fragile bones
My benevolent friend, the moon
Is hibernating in his orbital cocoon
So, I’m grounded with muddy toes
Stuck here on this frosty meadow
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Ivor Steven (c) August 2024
Towering Archways
Towering Archways
Clouds are not all the same grey
Below their showy berets
They float like a ‘Swan Lake’ ballet
Adorning their silvery causeways
They display Nature’s mandalas,
screenplays, and cabarets
They are the sky’s open sleighs
The world’s towering archways
Gateways for tomorrow’s stairway
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Ivor Steven (c) August 2024
Crystallized Sunlight
Crystallized Sunlight
Deep-sleep night
Eyes squeezed tight
Avoiding
Dawn’s icy white blight
Deep-sleep fright
Crystallized sunlight
Ushering
Dawn’s silent frostbite
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Ivor Steven (c) August 2024
More Poetry Books
“In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors. – William Blake
Over at Weekly Prompts, the Weekend Challenge is their monthly Colour Challenge, and for August it is: Brown. To visit their fabulous site please click on >> Here. … And my connection to their prompt is that most of the books that I purchased at the Fair had the colour “Brown” represented in their cover designs …
On our way to the Box Office Cafe, I took Frankie to the Geelong West Rotary Book Fair at the Town Hall and I found ‘seven’ wonderful poetry books to add to my poetry collection at home …
* The Collected Verse of A. B (Banjo) Paterson
* The Poems of William Blake
* New Selected Poems, Les Murray
* A Child’s Garden of Verses, Robert Louis Stevenson
* A Pocket Poet, Browning
* Some of Me Poetry, Pam Ayres
* Inspirations, Melinda A MacBeth (a self-published book, from Mansfield, Victoria, and printed by Mansfield Newspapers)
Below Images: I have scanned the Book Covers and attached a small poem from the book
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Ivor Steven (c) August 2024
“Every Rock I Kicked”, is in this week’s edition of Coffee House Writers Magazine.
Hello dear readers and followers, I am a writer for “Coffee House Writers magazine” (USA), on a fortnightly basis, and my poem “Every Rock I Kicked”, is in this week’s edition of Coffee House Writers Magazine. …
To Read my poem, please click on the link below to visit the article, at Coffee House Writers Magazine.
>> https://coffeehousewriters.com/every-rock-i-kicked/
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Ivor Steven (c) July 2024
Enjoy the Carnival
Today’s poem was inspired by Eugi’s philosophical poem, ‘Profound Transformation’
>> https://amanpan.com/2024/08/01/profound-transformation/
Enjoy the Carnival
Arise, forget about the chaos
Surround yourselves with nature’s gloss
And enjoy the carnival’s fairy floss
Arise, be your own boss
Escape the world’s mossy dross
And enjoy the carnival’s fairy floss
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Ivor Steven (c) August 2024
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