Tag: A Musette

Leaning Against the Wind (a Musette)






Leaning Against the Wind (a Musette)



Threadbare
Leaning against
Despair 


Kneeling 
Unsupported 
Reeling 


Flatlined
Renders tough times
Maligned







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Ivor Steven (c) April 2024

Our Land! (a Musette)





Our Land! (a Musette)



Magpies
Swoop overhead
Red eyes

Wings shine
Out spanned shadows
In line

“Our land!”
Was their flailing
Command







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Ivor Steven (c) March 2024

The Mystique (a Musette)

I find the Musette’s restrictive poetry format, to be very challenging
A Musette is,
three verses 
first line – 2 syllables 
second line – 4 syllables 
third line – 2 syllables 
rhyme scheme – a/b/a c/d/c e/f/e 
The title reflects the poem’s content 

The Mystique (a Musette)

Friday
I said to you
“Please stay” 

You said 
“Only one night 
Twin beds” 

Next week
We savoured the
Mystique








Ivor Steven (c) January 2024

Nightfall (a Musette), is this week’s Coffee House Writers Magazine

Hello dear readers and followers, I am now writing for “Coffee House Writers” magazine on a fortnightly basis, and my poem “Nightfall (a Musette)”, 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.
>> Nightfall – Coffee House Writers








Ivor Steven (c) December 2023

Throwback Friday, Shadows Fall (a Musette)



Today I am presenting another poem that will be appearing in my new book “Until Eye Eyes Hear Sound”. The ‘Musette’ is also a relatively new poem format for me, (thank you to Ryan, >> https://daysofstone.com/, for introducing me to the Musette format), and “Shadows Fall” is a poem I wrote in February 2023, and it will be an exciting piece in the ‘Others’ section of Chapter 10. Short Poems: Haiku, Senryu, Tanka, and Others




Shadows Fall (a Musette)




Don’t stop

Do not look back

Leaves drop




Shadows

Do not create

Meadows




Walk tall

Don’t look beyond

Nightfall










Ivor Steven (c) Sept 2023

Shadows Fall (a Musette) 




Don’t stop

Do not look back

Leaves drop




Shadows

Do not create

Meadows




Walk tall

Don’t look beyond

Nightfall







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Ivor Steven (c) February 2023

A Steep Slide (a Musette)

Recently Ryan Stone [https://daysofstone.wordpress.com/] introduced me to a new poem format Musette, and today I am presenting my first attempt at writing a Musette.
“Musette” 
three verses 
first line – 2 syllables 
second line – 4 syllables 
third line – 2 syllables 
rhyme scheme – a/b/a c/d/c e/f/e 
title reflects poems content 


A Steep Slide (a Musette)




I creep

Down the steep slide

I weep


Betrayed

I hide and shake

Afraid


I crawl

Away from shame

And bawl






Ivor Steven (c) September 2022