Nature’s Seeds

In response to Eugi’s Moonlighted Musings Prompt
>> https://amanpan.com/2025/05/27/moonwashed-weekly-prompt-may-27-2025/

a simple flower
summons smiles
calming of the day

Let one or more words in my poem be your inspiration.
Prompt contributions can be any variation of the prompt and/or image.


 Today’s short verse was originally written as a poetic comment to Sadje’s lovely poem >>  When leaves become words – Keep it alive 





Nature’s Seeds



May the world’s greed turn into earthly seeds 
Nature’s flower seeds, wheat seeds, and tree seeds 
And proceed to feed all those in need






Ivor Steven (c) May 2027

Close Up and Personal (a Tanka)

gentle eye perceives
melodies of ideal worlds
through a magic lens

Moonwashed Musings >> https://amanpan.com/2025/05/20/moonwashed-weekly-prompt-may-20-2025/

Let one or more words in my poem be your inspiration.
Prompt contributions can be any variation of the prompt and/or image.



Close Up and Personal (a Tanka)

Through the magic lens
Of my iPhone camera
I get to observe
My world’s colourful sunsets
Right close up and personal






Ivor Steven (c) May 2025

Ripples in the Sky


** Over at Week Prompts, the Wednesday Challenge is the word ‘Excellent’. To visit their fabulous site please click on >> Here.

** Also at Eugi’s Moonwashed Musings
>> https://amanpan.com/2025/01/21/moonwashed-weekly-prompt-chroma/





Ripples in the Sky



Hi, to all perceptive observers,
you, might not be able to see me,
but, if you look through telescopic eyes,
I’m up here, high in the Cirrocumulus clouds,
lounging in my excellent recliner chair,
sharing the sky’s Blue Theatre,
with the daytime silvery moon.

We are tactfully floating upon
the troposphere’s delicate white ripples,
and wistfully waving to the world’s
congregating survivors.









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Until Eyes Hear Sound

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Perceptions:

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Tullawalla:

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OR: >> You may email me directly for a signed copy at
ivorrs20@gmail.com





Ivor Steven (c) January 2025

Sweet Ladybird (a Tanka)


** Over at Weekly Prompts, the Wednesday Challenge is the word Ageism. To visit their fabulous site, please click on >> Here

** Also at Eugi’s Moonwashed Musings
>> https://amanpan.com/2025/01/14/moonwashed-weekly-prompt-writers-choice-5/

simplicity
in an uneasy world
praise unforgotten calm

Your Weekly Prompt – Any word or line in the above poem can be used for the prompt




Sweet Ladybird (a Tanka)

There on my donna
I hear a sweet ladybird
Serenading me
Coyly smiling she calmy
Invited me into bed





Ivor Steven (c) January 2025

I Do Not Have a Dress?

This week, Weekly Prompts’ Wednesday challenge is Leaves, a word that offers a cornucopia of interpretations. To visit their fabulous site please click on >> Here. — These days my forgetfulness is scattered around like autumn Leaves


And, Welcome To Moonwashed Musings
*The Weekly Prompt – Any word or line in the below poem can be used for the prompt

uncertainty
troublesome
much-needed light

Please visit Eugi’s, Moonwashed Musings site by clicking on >> HERE:





I Do Not Have a Dress?



I must confess
Forgetfulness
Is sleeping in my nest

Thoughts are in a mess
Running at two abreast
Without knowing my quest

I am looking for my address
In the pocket of my vest
Did I leave it in my dress?











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Until Eyes Hear Sound

Lulu Books >>  Until Eyes Hear Sound (lulu.com)



Perceptions:

Amazon >>  Perceptions : Steven, Ivor, Knight, Derrick: Amazon.com.au: Books
Lulu Books >>  Perceptions (lulu.com)




Tullawalla:

Amazon >> Tullawalla A Meeting Place Where My Empty Hands are Full of Memories and Rhymes : Steven, Ivor: Amazon.com.au: Books



OR: >> You may email me directly for a signed copy at
ivorrs20@gmail.com





Ivor Steven (c) October 2024

The Bedroom Chair

Over at Weekly Prompts, the Wednesday challenge is Garden. To visit their fabulous site please click on >> Here … but my garden is icy cold on these mid-winter days …

And, over at Moonwashed Musings, the Weekly Prompt is – Sultry Dreams … To visit Eugi’s fabulous site please click on >> HERE … my dreams are not “Sultry”, but “Wintry” …


The Bedroom Chair 

 
 
It’s zero degrees outside 
and I’m warm and cozy  
lying here in bed 
However, there is a pile 
of my winter clothes  
on the bedroom chair 
waiting for me to wear 
Frankie gives me his  
get up now stare!  
wanting his morning fair  
“Yes Frankie, it’s time  
for me to embrace  
the chilly morning air 
and plunge myself 
into the filtered sun’s 
brittle wintry lair” 










All Books. Now Available At:

Creative Geelong MAY’D Shop,
Shop 15/Centrepoint Arcade
132 Little Malop St, Geelong
TRADING HOURS
Thursday-Saturday
11am-3pm


Until Eyes Hear Sound

Lulu Books >>  Until Eyes Hear Sound (lulu.com)

Perceptions:

Amazon >>  Perceptions : Steven, Ivor, Knight, Derrick: Amazon.com.au: Books
Lulu Books >>  Perceptions (lulu.com)

Tullawalla:

Amazon >> Tullawalla A Meeting Place Where My Empty Hands are Full of Memories and Rhymes : Steven, Ivor: Amazon.com.au: Books


OR: >> You may email me directly for a signed copy at
ivorrs20@gmail.com





Ivor Steven (c) June 2024

Becalmed Without an Alibi

I am reposting this poem in response to Moonwashed’s Weekly Prompted; Becalmed
>> https://amanpan.blog/2023/12/19/moonwashed-weekly-prompt-becalmed/



Becalmed Without an Alibi





Time to unshackle my inflatable raft

And reignite my charred draft

I left floating down the river

When I was the disabled driver

Of my Itmims space craft


Sadly, the fuel tank is running on empty

And the secondhand battery is almost dry

I need to recharge my world beyond page twenty

And being becalmed is not an imaginative alibi

Itmims; Ivor’s Time Machine In Micro Space







Ivor Steven (c) December 2023