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Throwback Friday, Dragonfly, Nature’s Guardian Eye

Featured Image: my dragonfly photo from Thursday.

Yesterday I successfully photographed a Dragonfly in flight, which inspired me to post today’s Throwback Friday poem, “Dragonfly, Nature’s Guardian Eye”.

Below are Images, from 19th March 2023: I am thrilled to say that the attached photos are mine, and they are my first-ever successful photographs of Dragonflies …

Dragonfly, Nature’s Guardian Eye

Long before homo sapiens overachievers
You were the swamp’s incorruptible believer
Overseer of the planet’s rivers and valleys
The weary world’s ardent ally

Long before the floundering Ark
You were our wisest Monarch
Overseer of the forest’s unpolluted sky
Nature’s sprightly guardian eye

Until Eyes Hear Sound

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Perceptions:

Amazon >> Perceptions : Steven, Ivor, Knight, Derrick: Amazon.com.au: Books
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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) January 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.

Until Eyes Hear Sound

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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) January 2025

Handcuffs and Fisticuffs

Handcuffs and Fisticuffs

Climbing out of the darkness
The peaceful moom cautiously emerges
And involuntarily reflects our truthfulness

Are we self-consciously honest enough?
To read his self-evident messages
Are we able to undo our self-imposed handcuffs?
And cease our self-righteous fisticuffs

Until Eyes Hear Sound

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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) January 2025

This is the Life

This is the Life

The protective clouds encourage me
To hover here on the cool breeze
And savor the world’s calm stratosphere
Where I survive peacefully and free
But ready to soar above the trees
Into the dark, without fear

Away from the battlefields of strife
“Come with me, this is the life”

Until Eyes Hear Sound

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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) January 2025

Love Versus the World

Love Versus the World

Welcome to my world
Where the sun sets in golden swirls
And the moon glows like a pearl

Welcome to my garden
Where my sunflowers wear golden cardigans
And nature is my seasonal guardian

Welcome to my haven of love
Where my soul caresses her golden glove
And her shining star cares for me from above

Until Eyes Hear Sound

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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) January 2025Posted

Quintessence

Definitions:

quintessence:
noun:   the most typical example or representative of a type
noun:   the purest and most concentrated essence of something
noun:   the fifth and highest element after air and earth and fire and water; was believed to be the substance composing all heavenly bodies

florescent; flowering; bursting into flower
iridescent; the visual property of something having a milky brightness
pearlescent; resembling a pearl; having a pearly lustre or sheen
opalescent; colourless or white like an opal, or changing colour like an opal.
candescent; glowing or starting to glow with heat
evanescent; gradually disappears from sight or memory.
Senescent; characteristic of old age

Quintessence

Above my florescent sunflowers
Twilight’s iridescent sky
Of a pearlescent sunset
And an opalescent moonrise
Animated my candescent world
And the evanescent wave of light
Revived my senescent eyes

Until Eyes Hear Sound

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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) January 2025Posted

The New World’s “AI” Design

Please Note: Derrick Knight took all the attached photos and allowed me to reproduce them on my poetry site.
>> https://derrickjknight.com/2016/10/28/heard-on-the-telegraph/

The New World’s “AI” Design

The ancient wheels of time
Have been mysteriously left behind
In refuse paddocks of weeds and slime
Oh, what a mortifying crime

Has society overstepped the line
Spoke-less, with no rhythm or rhyme
Have we become deaf, dumb, and blind
Unable to handle the future’s slippery climb
Without using the New World’s AI design

Until Eyes Hear Sound

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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) January 2025Posted

Today’s Waxing Gibbous Moon

Today’s Waxing Gibbous Moon

We are under the Cafe’s verandah
enjoying our cake and coffee
and soaking up the summery atmosphere

Enthusiastically waiting
for the midafternoon moonrise,
the blue sky’s attractive half-moon

Hopefully, the gathering clouds
will dissipate soon
and allow us to view
another phenomenal daytime moon

Until Eyes Hear Sound

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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) January 2025

Talking to a Restless Moon

Over at Weekly Prompts, the Wednesday challenge is the word ‘Tomorrow‘. To visit their fabulous site please click on >> Here

Talking to a Restless Moon

On this scorching afternoon
I spoke to a restless moon
He said,
“The sky’s blue balloon
has been treacherously harpooned
by a scary orange buffoon
who openly sucks on his own dirty silver spoon
and be warned, no one is immune”

Since then, I’ve been lying low
But soon I’ll need to leave my hot bungalow
And fly forward to a safer and cooler tomorrow