I recently wrote a poem titled “Ivor’s Utopia” and I thought today’s Throwback Friday poem “Imperfectness” would be a perfect accompaniment. “Imperfectness” is from December 2022.
Imperfectness (a Tanka)
My imperfectness
Is perfectly camouflaged
Underneath the trees
Where moon shadows protect me
From the world’s imperfections
Hello dear readers and followers, here’s a re-posting of a poem I wrote in September 2017, and as is my way I have revised the piece for today’s Throwback Friday article.
A Distant Ship (Revised)
Am I afraid, or am I being slowly discouraged.
Dismayed by the emptiness in my wavering heart.
Am I consumed, or am I being bodily starved.
Eaten by the cells of my inner sentiments.
Am I senseless, or have I been possessed.
Devoured by the recess of my lonely soul.
Am I swimming backstroke behind a distant love-boat.
Drowning in the wake of the passing recovery vessel.
Ivor Steven (c) November 2023
Today’s Throwback poem is a rewrite of an old piece called “Paper Tigers” (Feb 2019)
The Poet’s Grotto
My writer’s studio, is the littered part of my bedroom
A paper tiger’s haven, has become a messy grotto
I am ruefully feeling muddled and befuddled
Pieces of paper and cardboard kites
Scatter the atmosphere like withered autumn leaves
Falling upon my untidy and cluttered archives
Scribbled words are yet to be decoded
Foolscap pages overwritten and eroded
Undefined and unlisted
Out of focus and twisted
Upside down and inside out
Uncategorized and full of self-doubt
My desk’s dreamy picture postcard
Looks like a moonscape’s junkyard
My poetic writing quill has been the mythological ruler
Showing no regard for my bedroom’s demeanour
I am sleeping covered in my hurdy gurdy verses
I cannot penetrate the stack of obscure foreign addresses
It is time to cast out the pretentious cosmic curses
Free myself of all unpublished jabberwocky
And let my imagination create a new poetic hard copy
Ivor Steven (c) October 2023
Today I am presenting the ‘penultimate‘ poem that will be appearing in my new book “Until Eyes Hear Sound”. and “Dancing In The Rain (an Epigram)” is a poem I wrote in September 2022, and it will be the last piece in the ‘Others’ section of Chapter 10. Short Poems: Haiku, Senryu, Tanka, and Others …
Please Note: the photo attached below, is the proposed cover design for my new book “Until Eyes Hear Sound”, created by my niece Kerri Costello – Philadelphia.
Artwork © Kerri Costello
Dancing In The Rain (an Epigram)
In one way or another
After leaving our mothers
Life delivers us to love and pain
While dancing in the rain
Ivor Steven (c) September 2023
A poem I wrote in January 2022, however, as is my way, I have revised and renamed the poem for my article today … the original title was Black and Blue
Dark Blue
fatigue is chorused by hidden mockingbirds
lethargic attitudes fall over backwards
tiredness melts blue lines into blurry words
weariness distorts midnight’s dark thoughts
and exhaustion eventually sinks a listing Argonaut
Today’s music/video: Is Damien Rice singing Leonard Cohen’s classic “Famous Blue Raincoat” … and fortunately, I am going see the amazing Damien Rice perform “Live” here in Geelong next Thursday night …
Ivor Steven (c) May 2023
Today’s ‘Throwback Friday’ poem is from my remembrance week a year ago
“Below; I have formed one poem out of four Senryu that I wrote this morning, and I have many fractured thoughts within my soul, a decade after Carole’s passing on May 3rd 2012 at 1.15pm …“
Today’s Fragments (Revised)
(A four Senryu poem)
I am who I am
I can’t be another man
She’s my hologram
I sat beside her
Next to yesterday’s campfire
Embers in the wind
A red flame flickers
Above her celestial star
My eternal light
On my island home
Sea mist falls across my arms
Completion awaits
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Ivor Steven (c) May 2023
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