Tag: Nature

A Blue Granite Rock





I was a rock

A cold granite prison block

From a land of hard knocks


I was a rock

A breaker of heavy locks

And tight knots


I am a rock

A mortal warlock

The universe is my clock








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Ivor Steven (c) May 2023

The Universe of Love and Light (a Tanka)

The Crescent Moon and Venus 6.10pm, April 23rd




The Universe of Love and Light (a Tanka)




The Moon and Venus

Crystalize the twilight sky

Together they dance

She, in the crescent moon’s arms

Love unites the universe







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Ivor Steven (c) April 2023

A Butterfly Sits on the Mushroom (a Tanka)




A Butterfly Sits on the Mushroom (a Tanka)


Imagine the scene

A butterfly fluttering

Atop the mushroom

A subconscious fantasy

My Autumn afternoon dream









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Ivor Steven (c) April 2023

Drizzly Drops, is in this week’s Coffee House Writers Magazine

Hello dear readers and followers, I now write for “Coffee House Writers” magazine on a fortnightly basis, and my poem “Cracks and Holes”, 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. >> https://coffeehousewriters.com/drizzly-drops/ 









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Ivor Steven (c) April 2023

Feel the Light (a Tu-aiku)

Hi dear readers, as you might know, I have written numerous ‘Double or Dual Haiku’, but I am yet to find a suitable ‘Format Name’ for this different style of Haiku … Today I have named my ‘Double Haiku‘ a “Tu-aiku” and this is the format name I’ll be using from now on … Please let know if you like my “Tu-aiku” name for a ‘Double Haiku’.






Feel the Light (a Tu-aiku)



The autumn magpie

Walks among the leaves and worms

An Easter parade


Below the greyness

We will always feel the light

Warmly caress us






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Ivor Steven (c) April 2023

Above The Lamps (a Haiku)




Above The Lamps (a Haiku)



Up there in the clouds

Above artificial lamps

Sunlight blooms softly








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Ivor Steven (c) April 2023

The Field’s Tiny Critters 

Please Note: all attached photos are mine and were taken this morning while walking on our nearby community track

Caterpillar and Cricket

Butterfly and Dragonfly

The Ted Wilson Trail and my walking companion ‘Frankie’


The Field’s Tiny Critters 



Crickets were wildly bounding 

Out of the dry ground cracks 

Caterpillars casually crept 

Along the winding track 

Butterflies did freely flutter 

From flower to flower 

Dragonflies swiftly swept 

Through the tree towers 

Whizzing watchfully, hour after hour 


Nature’s imperial overseer 

For the field’s tiny critters 








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Ivor Steven (c) March 2023

Reflection

This weekend on Weekly Prompts the monthly Colour Challenge for April is: Tricolour . Please go and visit their fabulous site by clicking on > Here
My “tricolour poem” below is about, rainnbows, orbits, and cosmic snow

A special thank you to Mark Ryan for inspiring my imagination, visit his incredible site via this link >> https://havocandconsequence.wordpress.com/2023/03/31/decaying-orbit


Reflection



Like a rainbow

Orbits come and go

Each brilliant arch

Travels a mirrored path


Is our life, a rainbow’s

Reflection upon cosmic snow









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Ivor Steven (c) March 2023

Her Last Rainbow (a Haiku)

This months poetry assignment at Coffee House Writers is to read the traditional Japanese writer, Matsuo Basho’s 10 top Haiku, and then try to write a Traditional style Haiku. I think my Haiku here might get me a ‘pass’ for the assignment …


Her Last Rainbow (a Haiku)




Etched upon greyness

Behind fluffy nimbus clouds

Her last rainbow glowed









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Ivor Steven (c) March 2023

Peppercorn Road (a Double Haiku)

As usual, during our morning walkie, I take numerous photos, and sometimes the iPhone pic’s instantly inspires a visual idea and later helps prompt me to write about those thoughts … This afternoon I created two Haiku, and then I thought they would be suited to be coupled as one piece.
So, here are my photos and the associated ‘Double Haiku’




Peppercorn Road (a Double Haiku)
 
 
 
Above and below 

The ancient peppercorn tree 

New branches do grow 


 
Bird on a Light-pole 

Above the bitumen road 

Where trees do not grow 







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Ivor Steven (c) March 2023