My Vivacious Sunflowers
This is the start
Of something big
Something big and beautiful
And immensely bigger
Than my shrub’s
Lovely little ladybug
My new sunflower plants are thriving
And are about to burst into flower
My heart is pounding in anticipation
And I can sense the bushes vivacious tenacity
Spiritually enhancing my well-being
Ivor Steven (c) November 2023
I went to the Geelong Writers monthly social meeting at the Box Office Cafe this evening … I am back home, It’s 10.30pm, I’m tired, my computer is “duck muck” again, so I thought I would a reblog of this ‘appropriate’ poem before I hit the sack
A Torn Thesaurus
With my fiddle and riddles
Here in the middle
Of this unopened universe
Time spirals in reverse
Quills fly in from cyberspace
As alien words unravel and interlace
A torn thesaurus is my database
I wonder
Have I landed in the right place?
But that does not matter
K-9’s happy with the community chatter
Doggie treats and friendly pats
And he presents his paw for more
Like a hungry beggar’s cap
Ivor Steven (c) July 2022
Today’s cold windstorm
Penetrated every pore
With icy needles
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Ivor Steven (c) September 2023
Hello dear readers and followers, I am now writing for “Coffee House Writers” magazine on a fortnightly basis, and my poem “Droplets of Joy”, is in this week’s edition of Coffee House Writers Magazine. … please click on the link below to view my poem, at Coffee House Writers Magazine. >> https://coffeehousewriters.com/droplets-of-joy/
This poem is the second Ekphrastic piece I wrote from the Geelongs Writers Ekphrastic Workshop that I attended last week, and the attached photo below, is of Gale Jarmyn’s beautiful painting “Leaves in the Sunshine”, which inspired me to write this poem “Droplets of Joy”, and after chatting with her at the official opening of the Art Exhibition, (at which I recited the poem), she kindly allowed me to reproduce my photo of her lovely Painting, here on my Poetry Website.
Ivor Steven (c) Sept 2023
Neon Blue (a Haiku)
Our sky’s neon blue
The bright side of winter blue
Warming our toes too
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Ivor Steven (c) August 2023
Today I am presenting another poem that will be appearing in my new book “Until Eyes Hear Sound”. I wrote ‘Exposed’ in October 2020, and the Haiku will be the opening piece in the ‘Haiku’ section of Chapter 10 . Short Poems: Haiku, Senryu, Tanka, and Others.
Featured Image: The 14th China-Russia-Mongolia International Ice and Snow …Pinterest, 4 yrs ago
Exposed (a Haiku)
Cold droplets of rain
Icicles stuck on bare skin
Hinged by winter wind
Ivor Steven (c) August 2023
Bird Watching (a Haiku)
Cold, wet, and grounded
Jealous, I see him fly home
As hail stings my eyes
Ivor Steven (c) Aug 2023
I’ve done lots of meandering today and now I need to have a doggie nap
My Mind Meanders (a Tanka)
On our morning trail
Where beginnings never end
Imagination
Meanders around each bend
Conscious of nature’s haven
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Ivor Steven (c) August 2023
Over at “Weekly Prompts”, the Weekend Challenge is the word: Bucolic, please visit their fabulous site by clicking on >> Here … Below is my ‘Rural Weather’ response to the Prompt
The Weather’s Like a Boomerang
Saturday afternoon
We are stuck in the lounge room
Talking to the idiot-box
Outside there’s a winter monsoon
And the rain-god’s drops
Are as big as tablespoons
Full of crushed ice-blocks
Our day of play has gone
Tweedily tweet! The cuckoo sang
“Time to yawn
until tomorrow’s dawn
while waiting for tonight’s moon
to throw the next boomerang”
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Ivor Steven (c) August 2023
Birds Know the Way (a Tanka)
Hold on and look up
Birds dodge the tangled skyline
They know where to fly
Birds will show us the way home
Above the blue horizon
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Ivor Steven (c) August 2023
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