Tag: Life & Nature

His Musical Finale

Over at Weekly Prompts, the Weekend Challenge is the word; Finale You may visit their wonderful site by clicking on >> Here.





His Musical Finale 


 
 
Richard the intrepid snail  

Went searching for the Holy Grail  

He was told by the garden toad  

His goal was on a long frosty road  

Winding down toward the South Pole  

Coolly, the snail began his arctic stroll  

Determined to find the sacred anomaly  

Before the music played at his grand finale 








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Ivor Steven (c) November 2023

Do You See the Sound? 





Do You See the Sound? 

 
 
 
Oh, great spirit of the sky 

My eyes hear the sound  

Of your moonbeam’s cry  

A message so profound 

Sadly, echoing the unearthly tremors  

Of whales and pelicans distressed murmurs  


This world has an abundance  

Of digital receiving towers  

And trillions of mobile phones  

To interpret your ethereal moon-rays


 

Cannot they see the sound?  

From under the oceans  

Cannot they feel the ground?  

Beyond today’s horizon  

Cannot they hear the drowned? 








Ivor Steven (c) November 2023

Sharing the Moment





Sharing the Moment 


 
 
Relaxing  

On the café’s cottage veranda  

Soaking  

Up the bucolic atmosphere   

Feeling  

I have found a snippet of serenity  


Fleetingly  

I am sharing the moment  

Sharing my dreamy Oasis   

With a dainty  

Blue Fairy Wren  

Flittering  

From table to table 







Ivor Steven (c) November 2023

Soaring (a Senryu)



There’s an old saying

What spirals up, must come down

I’m still Soaring up








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Ivor Steven (c) November 2023

Stars Inside My Home (a Tanka)





Stars Inside My Home (a Tanka)


I’m not going blind

I am not losing my mind

My words are a song

A ballad from yesterday

About stars sharing my home








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Ivor Steven (c) November 2023

My Jazzy Bougainvillea (a Tanka)

Over at Moonwashed Musings, Eugi’s Weekly Prompt is: Flamboyant >> you can visit her fabulous site via this link >> https://amanpan.blog/2023/11/14/moonwashed-weekly-prompt-flamboyant/

Also, at Gerry & Sue’s Weekly Prompts, the Wednesday Challenge is; Energy … and you can visit their wonderful site by clicking on >> Here

I think my poem “My Jazzy Bougainvillea” is eligible for both ‘Prompts’





My Jazzy Bougainvillea (a Tanka)




Jazzy, you are so

Curvaceously Flamboyant

Exposing your blooms

To anyone who walks by

Boldly seducing their eyes








Ivor Steven (c) November 2023

Within Us Or Without Us 

“What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.” ~ William Butler Yeats






Within Us Or Without Us 


 
 
Every river  

Has a steppingstone  

Every mountain   

Is there to be climbed  

Every island  

Is waiting to be explored 


Under the world’s oceans  

The fish swim together  

Out in the universe  

The stars will shine forever 

Within us  

Or without us 







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Ivor Steven (c) November 2023

One Butterfly (a Rhyming Haiku)

“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.” – W.B. Yeats




One Butterfly (a Rhyming Haiku)


One white butterfly

Quietly fluttered nearby

Breathless! I said Hi






“Song Of Wandering Aengus” A poem by W B Yeats

I went out to the hazel wood
Because a fire was in my head
And cut and peeled a hazel wand
And hooked a berry to a thread.

And when white moths were on the wing
And moth-like stars were flickering out
I dropped the berry in a stream
And caught a little silver trout.

When I had laid it on the ground
I went to blow the fire a-flame
But something rustled on the floor
And some one called me by my name.

It had become a glimmering girl
With apple blossom in her hair
Who called me by my name and ran
And faded through the brightening air.

Though I am old with wandering
Through hollow lands and hilly lands
I will find out where she has gone
And kiss her lips and take her hands.

And walk among long dappled grass
And pluck till time and times are done
The silver apples of the moon
The golden apples of the sun
The silver apples of the moon
The golden apples of the sun.

Silver Boots and Black Ties

Featured Image: Wikimedia File:Blow-flies.jpg

Over at Weekly Prompts, the Weekend Challenge word is: Traveller … please visit their wonderful site by clicking on >> Here
Today my poem is about those annoying companion travellers.

Silver Boots and Black Ties 


 
 
I am being followed 

Ever since I left the front door 

I can see them 

From the corner of my eye  

I am hearing them  

Teasingly buzzing nearby  

I feel their presence 

Like a neighbourhood rabbi 

Steely spies from Shanghai  

Clustering behind my back 

Like tough guys from Versailles  

Wearing silver boots and black ties 


Annoyed and frustrated  

I suddenly swung around 

Randomly flailing my arms

And yelling with angry abandon  

“Buzz off” I let fly  

To those pesky blowflies 






Ivor Steven (c) November 2023