Category: Light

Afterglow

Put another log on the fire, while I travel to Tasmania with the two Philadelphia girls and three other Aussie cousins … Thursday 27th April – Monday 1st May


Afterglow 
  

 
 
After a frenetic time 

I feel like a burnt-out hollow log 

My charred core is clinging 

Onto nature’s dampened fringes 

Of Autumn leaves and fallen branches 

Where flora stealthily regenerates


 

Steadily, my diminished cavern 

Is growing wider 

And my ambient lantern 

Is glowing brighter 








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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

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

I Do (a Haiku)



I wrote a haiku

Before the world had seen you

Why are you so blue?








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Ivor Steven (c) March 2023



Cloudless and Clueless, a Haiku

The clear blue skys of summer seem to be inspiring my writings lately ...



Cloudless and Clueless, a Haiku




Beyond vacant sky

Infinity outlives time

Why does greed survive?








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Ivor Steven (c) December 2022

A Window Stain (a Tanka)

The Tanka is a relatively new poem format for me and I think “A Window Stain” that I wrote back in January 2021 was my first Tanka.


A Window Stain, (a Tanka)


Evening tears ebb through

the window of last year’s stain

Fear closes the latch

Tonight, the moon is brighter

Today the pane is clearer






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Ivor Steven (c) November 2022

The Lighthouse

Another older poem from February 2021, while I am slowly recovering from my painful back soreness…


The Lighthouse


I am afloat

In between

Here and there

Am I lost?

My ship clock

Is a sundial

Using the moon

To reflect on time


I hear the waves

Pounding white hooves

A heavy sound

Of many moods

Is the sea growing wider?

Is the light glowing brighter?







Ivor Steven (c) Feb 2021

Out There, Right Now






Hobbling along

A tear sodden path

I stumble

Beneath heavy morning clouds


Shaken

I feel the shadow

Of her unfortunate life

Pass over me

From beyond the atmosphere

Of this disheartening world


Out there, somewhere

In our universe

Her eternal star

Somehow, right now

Illuminates my soul






Ivor Steven (c) August 2022