Drifting Bassinets
On my knees, by the sea
Looking beyond our sentinel trees
I hear their whistling palms
Forlornly echoing abandoned alarms
Through their leaves’ silhouettes
I see a becalmed ocean of wavelets
Caressing a boat full of suffragettes
Fleeing the dusty sky of Mariupol sunsets
Clutching their war-torn bassinets
Ivor Steven (c) July 2025
Less Than Half
My timeline has been drawn
I see the sky’s white swan
Casting shadows on my lawn
Reminding me of tomorrow’s dawn
After twilight, tiredness becomes my thorn
And I have forgotten why I was born
No matter, I am never forlorn
Half of my horizon is still fawn
Ivor Steven (c) July 2025
Apologies to my followers and readers for not blogging much this weekend. Sorry, it has been a hectic weekend for me and I have run out of “Time” … Market Day, Saturday, and my Dome Poetry meeting on Sunday … I’ll have no breath left to blow out the candles!!
Over at Weekly Prompts, the Weekend Challenge is Back-to-Front. To visit their fabulous site, please click HERE
“Tock-tick”, or “47 is 74”
I am seventy-four today
And as I am growing older
I am hearing time ticking
Back-to-front
Sounding more like “tock-tick”
Instead of a steady “tick-tock”
Once upon a time
For every moment
There was a second
Now, in one moment
There are two seconds!
And the old hands
On my rusty sundial
Cannot find time’s
Elusive shadow
Alas, I have searched
Inside out and upside down
For the key to time’s
New age design
“A backless clock
Without any front”
Ivor Steven (c) July 20th, 2025
Half Way
Half of me
Is moving forward
The other half
Is lost
In the sky
Wondering why
We live
And then die
Half a cloud
My silent shroud
Slides sideways
And allows me
Half a moment
To feel more than proud
Among the crowd
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Until Eyes Hear Sound
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Perceptions:
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Tullawalla:
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Ivor Steven © July 2025
I found this poem that I first posted in February 2018. I hope you enjoy the re-run, and as is my way, I’ve made a few edits.
Beyond Sunset (Revised)
Gently, the dying moonlight awakens my dawn
And the baptizing sunrise waters my eyes
Drowning the silent hours of my shallow day
And dimming my hopes of playing in the hay
A hazy dusk shrouds the cemetery lawn
And the rituals of sunset beckon my evening plight
Flailing and falling upon sleepless night
And I lie prone under my weighted crown
Ivor Steven (c) July 2025
The Featured Image above is a photo of the Birthday Card that I received today from a dear friend who lives in Selangor (Malaysia), which is on the Equator.
A Butterfly’s Heart
Part I, Heart to Heart
An equatorial butterfly
Landed softly in my hand
Sat upon my sleeve
And looked at me inquiringly
“We need to have a heart-to-heart chat”
Then said
“I’m here to regenerate your wings.
Join me in the sky, and follow your dreams
before tomorrow’s dust, waves you goodbye”
Part II, Dreams of the Heart
I cannot walk the continents
Like the intrepid Marco Polo
But my feet have felt the sands of time
Pass between my toes
I have not sailed the high seas
Like the courageous Christopher Columbus
But my body has bathed
In an ocean full of kind hearts
I’m yet to fly in space
Like the brave Neil Armstrong
But I have reached for the stars
And touched my soul’s dreams
Ivor Steven (c) July 2025
Hello, dear readers and followers. I write for Coffee House Writers magazine (USA) fortnightly, and my poem “Now Falls Into Then” is in this week’s edition. …
To read the poem, please click the link below to visit my Coffee House Writers Magazine article.
>> https://coffeehousewriters.com/now-falls-into-then/
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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 © July 2025
Today’s poem is a verse/comment I posted on Beth’s (I Didn’t Have My Glasses On) article on Thursday.
>> https://ididnthavemyglasseson.com/2025/07/10/we-need-new-knights-but-without-swords-dejan-stojanovic/
Our White Knight (a Micro Poem)
Delightful moonlight
Morning, day, and night
Timid and bright
Our wistful White Knight
Ivor Steven (c) July 2025
A Lonesome Old Wind
Parading, brazen and proud
Clumps of grey clouds
Plough across the sky
Too windy
For the solitary magpie
Too cold
For the ants and rabbits
Our walking track
Is devoid of doggies and humans
Except for Frankie and I
And the ‘I’ in Ivor
Must stand for
‘I’ am a survivour
Ivor Steven (c) July 2025
Riding on the Moon (a Tanka)
Surfing through the clouds
Like a tumbling white beach ball
The afternoon moon
Catches the fresh ocean breeze
And rolls toward the night sky
Ivor Steven (c) July 2025
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