Featured Image Above: A veiled moon, a steady pulse — answering Susi’s quiet reflection.’
Thank you to Susi; her article, “Calm”, inspired my Senryu >> Calm – I Write Her
Calico Curtains
(a Senryu)
When the lights are dim
Behind life’s silent curtain
The show carries on
‘Behind the silent curtain, the world still trembles — Cohen answers where my haiku whispers.’
Ivor Steven © March 2026
Today’s Throwback Friday poem (originally written in July 2023) is drawn from my upcoming book, Time Hears No Sound. It appears as the first poem in the Senryu section of Chapter 10, Time’s Short Poems: Haiku, Tanka, etc.
A small return to 2023, where shadows still had something to teach me.
Sadness (a Senryu)
Below the grayness
Naked emotions stumble
Between the shadows
For a soundtrack to this quiet ache, here’s Leonard Cohen’s Show Me the Place — a voice searching through the same shadows.”
Ivor Steven © February 2026
Featured Image Above: “Our beginning, timeless as a dream.”
Invisible Me (a Senryu)
How to be yourself?
When your life is within an
unreachable dream
Ivor Steven (c) November 2025
“When your father’s name is etched in stone, it is never as indelible as the etching in your heart” … Colleen Brown
Alex Steven (Dad), February 5th, 1924 – July 3rd, 2015
I’m Like Dad (a Senryu)
Sometimes I am sad
But I am not mad or bad
My heart’s just like Dad’s
Ivor Steven (c) July 3rd, 2025
The Featured Image Above was taken by Jackie Knight, Derrick’s wife, and I have cropped it to fit the ‘Feature Image size’.
Over at Weekly Weekly Prompts, the Wednesday Challenge is the word: Eerie … You may visit their fabulous site by clicking on >> Here.
“Time is eerie, time is blind, and time takes no commands.”
Time is Blind (a Senryu)
A black clock stands guard
Atop a Town Square bollard
Time sees no graveyard
Ivor Steven (c) October 2024
Reeling in Reality (a Senryu)
Disillusioned
Beyond my unopened shells
There are no oysters
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Ivor Steven (c) July 2024
Hibernate? (a Tanka)
Legs are out of sync
The mind’s running on empty
Time to hibernate?
Eyes do not hear the sunrise
Ears cannot see the future
Ivor Steven (c) July 2024
My poetic response to Raquel’s thoughtful post >> https://lavidaraq.com/2024/03/28/pick-up-the-phone
Who’s Listening (a Senryu)
Looking at my phone
Hoping for that ringing tone
Feeling all alone
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Ivor Steven (c) April 2024
A Senryu I wrote in response to Susi’s emotional poem “Getting Broken”
>> https://iwriteher.com/2024/02/14/getting-broken/
Featured Imaged Above: with Claudia’s (Humoring The Goddess)
kind permission, from her magnificent story about the artist, Glen Martin Taylor. Please visit her site and read the amazing article.
>> https://humoringthegoddess.com/2024/02/24/sunday-evening-art-gallery-glen-martin-taylor
Broken is Not a Token (a Senryu)
Once the heart’s broken
Kintsugi is a token
For the hurt spoken
Ivor Steven (c) February 2024
Over at Weekly Prompts, the Weekend Challenge is the word, Edge … you may visit their fabulous site by clicking on >> Here. … My only claim to following the prompt is that I have mentioned the word “Edge” in the first stanza of my two-piece poem
To See What is Unfound
four boxes of my new book
“Until Eyes Hear Sound”
have landed and set ashore
on the edge of my loungeroom floor
now begins the next chore
become a poet’s traveling bookstore
To See What is Unfound (a Senryu)
“Until Eyes Hear Sound”
Read my new book, so profound
You will be spellbound
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Ivor Steven (c) February 2024
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