Tag: The Moon

No! Not the Moon Too (a Tanka)





No! Not the Moon Too (a Tanka)




I was framed! And then

Locked behind alien bars

I need to be free

Please come now and release me 

My full moon show is on soon 







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Ivor Steven (c) April 2024

Reading Between the Lines






Reading between the lines 


 

Looking north toward the twilight sky 

There, in the cobalt canopy 

The daylight moon flickered in my eye 

In between the steel pylons 

In between the copper cables 

And the blackened power lines 


I pondered, what was the moon’s perception?  

Of Earth’s domineering digital congestion 








Until Eyes Hear Sound
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Ivor Steven (c) March 2024

Our Blossoming Twilight Moon

Please Note, that the Featured Illustration above (Moon and Tree) is by Kerri Costello and is the Introduction Drawing for Chapter 8 (Poetry In Slow Motion) of my new book, “Until Eyes Hear Sound”





Our Blossoming Twilight Moon


Day after day glides by

And I watch you gradually grow


In the blossoming blue sky

While my grasping little toe


Clings on to the last endearing bonsai

A remnant from the new world’s crumbling chateau








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Ivor Steven (c) February 2024

Do You See the Sound? 





Do You See the Sound? 

 
 
 
Oh, great spirit of the sky 

My eyes hear the sound  

Of your moonbeam’s cry  

A message so profound 

Sadly, echoing the unearthly tremors  

Of whales and pelicans distressed murmurs  


This world has an abundance  

Of digital receiving towers  

And trillions of mobile phones  

To interpret your ethereal moon-rays


 

Cannot they see the sound?  

From under the oceans  

Cannot they feel the ground?  

Beyond today’s horizon  

Cannot they hear the drowned? 








Ivor Steven (c) November 2023

I’m Almost Home (a Haiku)



I’m Almost Home (a Haiku)




Could the stars be right

That life is almost perfect

Tonight’s moon agrees






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Ivor Steven (c) November 2022

Fiery Pearls and an Ambient Eye

This weekend, at Weekly Prompts the challenge word is: Focus. Please go and visit their fabulous site by clicking on >> Here … and below is my response to their prompt; Focus …



Fiery Pearls and an Ambient Eye



“Since I don’t believe in anything 

I can pretend about everything” … (anonymous)


The stars are the universe’s fiery pearls

And when smoke falls into my eyes 

Her fading ashes singe my heart




The silver moon is my world’s ambient eye

And when my mind falls out of focus

His silvery beams enlighten my soul






Ivor Steven (c) July 2022