No more highs and lows
Nor ups and downs
The rollercoaster wheels
Have sadly departed
From their weary axles
And the embedded tracks
Now rest underneath
Dried leaves and fallen branches
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Hello dear readers and followers, I now write for “Coffee House Writers” magazine on a fortnightly basis, and my poem “The Untouchable and Invisible World”, 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/the-untouchable-and-invisible-world/
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Ivor Steven (c) January 2023
On Weekly Prompts, the Weekend Challenge is the word; BEND. Please go over and visit their fabulous site by clicking on >> Here . The poem below does have the word ‘Bend’ in it, and that’ll be close enough for me …
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The World’s Fractured Mirror
At the close of day
Sunset’s empty Amphitheatre
Descends across a bend in the twilight zone
And semidarkness
Oppresses the horizon’s
Endangered vanishing point
What loiters beyond
The skylines diminishing aurora?
Will the night-fires of war
Continue to be entrapped
For ever and ever, inside
The world’s fractured mirror
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A poem I wrote in early February 2019, while recovering from my third stroke. I have slightly revised a few words, and altered the title – originally “Time and the Sea”
Time In A Turbulent Sea
My time, weeks, days, and hours have gone
My time, between one procedure and the next
Time to explore this healing castle
Time to write about realities and dreams
Time to chat to eager listeners
Time to observe the people living within
Time to think about the world’s problems
Time to visualise pictures of tomorrow
I am not a patient in his bed
I am free-standing and waiting instead
I am a walking and talking local poet
I am not allowed to vacate the site
They want me near, to study my plight
They want me here, to secure my bed
They need me near, to look into my mind
They need me here, so I am easy to find
Solstafir – Midaftann, Translated Lyrics
Now I have come home
After a journey on the deep seas.
The wave was so high,
The saltiness ate everything up.
I drowned in a black hole,
I pulled at the hand of death.
So high, it was so high,
And the moon lighted a path, yes the moon high in the sky,
And the moon lighted a path, yes the moon lighted a path.
So high, so high, wave of the sins, wave of the sins.
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There is a shady gray sky
Sailing above the Cafe
And a sympathetic breeze
Dances across the tabletops
As the liberating cool change diffuses
The morning’s explosive heatwave
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A Cup of Coffee on The House
Fantasy.
A powerful Pacific Albatross
Gracefully landed on fairy-moss
That covered my welcoming pathway
And graciously handed me a sacred Mandala
Reality.
The postman delivered a special parcel today
A belated Christmas gift from America
A wonderful hand-painted coffee mug
And this afternoon I enjoyed
“A Cup of Coffee on The House”
Thanks to my friends at Coffee House Writers
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Ivor Steven (c) January 2023
Today I wrote a Senryu and a Haiku, and they were both about the ‘nature’ of existence, so I thought I could present them here as the one poem … I think my idea worked ok.
Please Note, All Photos: were taken by Derrick Knight and are copied from his site and reproduced here on my post with his permission. >> https://derrickjknight.com
The Core (a Poem)
The Core (a Senryu)
Existence crawls down
Through my neck into the heart
Of where my soul lies
The Core (a Haiku)
Through the winds of time
Existence descends from trees
Perpetually
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Over on Weekly Prompts, the Weekend Challenge is the word: Warning. Please go over and visit their fabulous site by clicking on >> Here
My poem below “Trees Without Shadows” is a subtle WARNING from Mother Nature.
Trees Without Shadows
A dry foggy dawn
Eerily gloomy for summer
Gray blurry clouds
Brazenly obscure the sun
And thirsty barren trees
Stand starkly without shadows
The becalmed and breathless world
Waits for the anchored sky
To hear the beckoning breeze
Be aroused by the atmosphere’s
Guardian spirit bird
Who ceremoniously flaps his wings
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Today I was prompted to revise my poem from June 2020, because I had just received a lovely hand-designed “Penguin Christmas Card” from my Philadelphia cousin.
There’s a Penguin In My Courtyard (Revised)
my courtyards a frozen pond
cold enough for a penguin
shards of ice lay upon the ground
and a crisp sharpness cuts the sound
of frost covered songbirds unsilenced
as fernery fronds curl in glaciated defiance
in the corner hangs a frigid spider’s web
above the crystlised succulent flower bed
and in a white sky the sun’s ambient saffron disc
again predicts that golden dawns do exist
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Ivor Steven (c) January 2023
Holes In Doors
My owner left me
Locked up in the courtyard
Nothing unusual about that
He left me some biscuit treats
And a full bowl of water
However, he forgot
To close the wire security screen
Well, best I break in
And protect our kennel
“What would you have done?”
I started clawing and chewing
At the exposed wood door
Firstly, I dug a small hole
An opening I could bite
My industrious teeth into
Whoops and drats!
There was another layer
On the inside too!
I wasn’t sure why
My boss told me off
When he arrived home
I thought I was only trying to help
He didn’t appreciate my creativity
Time passed and Christmas arrived
My extended family
Were joking and laughing
At my aunt’s gift for Dad
Woof, woof. “A Doggie Door for me!”
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Ivor Steven (c) January 2023
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