Climb into the clouds
Descend with rain and sunshine
Saturate your soul
Ivor Steven (c) August 2021
Month: August 2021
Promote Yourself Mondays, August 30, 2021
Dear readers and followers, here’s a great opportunity for your writings to be read by other writers, and also to find and meet other writers. You are very welcome to participate, come along and visit our writer friendly site…..by clicking on the link at the bottom of this article >>
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His New Sanctuary is Luxury
The Weekend Challenge from Weekly Prompts is: Sanctuary. Please go over and visit their fabulous site by clicking >> Here . and the poem below is my response to their prompt …
His New Sanctuary is Luxury
Sometimes in life
Just when it’s right
There’s that moment
And tonight’s that moment
Sometimes we are lucky
Against all the odds
There’s that fortunate time
I am ecstatic and feeling blessed
Gratefully thankful
I write these words on today’s Newspaper
Reading tomorrow’s weather forecast
Happiness is here
Here right beside me
Under my verandah roof
Comfy and relaxed
Frankie love’s his new sanctuary
Ivor Steven (c) August 2021
Throwback Friday, Wondering And Wandering Again, by Ivor Steven
A poem I wrote 2 years before ‘covid’ took hold … eerie ..
Funny enough my poem today is not about life in ‘covid’ times, as I wrote this piece in June 2018, but on reading this poem today, the theme could well pertain to our ‘covid’ lockdown situation here at the moment in Geelong … hmmm eerie …
Wondering And Wandering Again
Do you every have that vacant feeling
Silently in a void, wandering
Darkness has fallen
Clouds shroud the moon
Misty rain cools the night-air
Wondering what happened to your daytime
Hours of down-time
What have you done?
Memories of your day have gone
Nothing in your hand
Blankness in your mind
Decoding untold stories
Writing on empty blue lines
Words of hidden rhymes
With invisible ink that runs away
Eloping with your pen
To find a better day
And leaving you alone again
Ivor Steven (c) June 2018
G’day, and welcome to my blog site. My name is Ivor Steven…
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I Cannot Remember Aunt’s Name
My poem today is the other poem that I wrote at Ali Grimshaw’s, poetry ‘Writing Circle’ Zoom meeting event on Tuesday.. Once again it was a privilage to be a part of a wonderful gathering of kindred poets. And I thoroughly reccommend Ali’s Writing Circle programs to all interested poets out there, you will not be disappointed if you decide to attend… You may connect with her site via this link >>
https://flashlightbatteries.blog/.
I Cannot Remember Aunt’s Name
what do I remember
of yesterday
my memory is softened
and in decay
bouquets and birthdays
have left on Santa’s sleigh
I do recall my sister’s banquet
on Boxing Day
and I am not to delay
a trip to my Aunt in Adelaide
Ivor Steven (c) August 2021
The Wind Whispers, The Wind Sighs
An exquisite poem by Ryan Stone. I thoroughly recommend that you have a read … Ryan is an Australian poet …
– after Longfellow
The wind whispers, the wind sighs,
the dawn light brightens, a magpie cries;
amongst the gum trees tall and green
a girl becomes a faerie queen.
And the wind whispers, the wind sighs.
Morning settles beneath silk skies,
her reign flits by like dragonflies;
deep shadows dress the naked hill
in dusk, as faerie wings fall still.
And the wind whispers, the wind sighs.
Night throws a cloak; a barn owl cries,
another answers, stars blink their eyes.
The queen is gone, won’t come again;
these woods forever will remain.
And the wind whispers, the wind sighs.
– Ryan Stone
first published at Poetry Nook, May 2020
In This Limbo, (at Coffee House Writers)
Hello dear readers and followers, as you may know, I now write for “Coffee House Writers” on a fortnightly basis, and my poem “In This Limbo”, is this weeks edition of Coffee House Writers Magazine. … please click on the link below and visit my poem at Coffee House Writers … and let me know what you think of my poem, and I would appreciate your support over at my new venture as a writer on CHW…
Ivor Steven (c) August 2021
May the Whales Find Their Tails
If you wish to purchase a copy of my book “Tullawalla”, the links below will help ..
Tullawalla is Available at Amazon (Paperback), https://www.amazon.com/Tullawalla-Ivor-Steven/dp/B099H47PWQ/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Tullawalla&qid=1629428327&sr=8-1
Tullawalla : Steven, Ivor, Harris, patricia, Costello, Kerri: Amazon.com.au: Books … ..especially for those living in Australia, with an Amazon.au account, postage is at local rates rates ..
May the Whales Find Their Tails
After climbing high into the clouds
Upon descending with rain and sunshine on your shroud
Life will fall on your shoulders, leaving you wise and proud
Then that full sail will always be your holy grail
And you can delete those old tell-tale snail trails
May the whales find their tails
And hopefully the quails will always wail
Ivor Steven (c) August 2021
Promote Yourself Mondays, August 23, 2021
Dear readers and followers, here’s a great opportunity for your writings to be read by other writers, and also to find and meet other writers. You are very welcome to participate, come along and visit our writer friendly site…..by clicking on the link at the bottom of this article >>
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Welcome toPromote Yourself Monday. All Go Dog Go Cafe community members are invited to postonelink to one specific piece of their writing (600 words or less please!) they have published on their blog, Facebook page, or Instagram feed into the comments section below.
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Throwback Friday, Haven’t Seen You For a While, by Ivor Steven
This is a poem I wrote 10 years ago ..
If you wish to purchase a copy of my book “Tullawalla”, the links below will help..
“Please Note“.. do not purchase the Hardcover book from Barnes & Noble .. they have meesed it up again
Tullawalla is Available at Amazon (Paperback),https://www.amazon.com/Tullawalla-Ivor-Steven/dp/B099H47PWQ/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Tullawalla&qid=1629428327&sr=8-1
Today I am presenting a poem, that didn’t make the final list, and was ‘cut’ from my new Book “Tullawalla”… Although I am not sure why I did not include “Haven’t Seen You for a While” in the book. ‘The poem was one that I placed in Carole’s funeral pamphlet’ (9 years ago)….
Haven’t Seen You for A While
Woke up dreaming of your petite smile
And pondering, I haven’t seen you for a while
That gentle smile making you so cute
So pleasing and alluring seems to suit
Dreaming of your grace and gorgeous style
And thinking, I haven’t seen you for a…
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