Behind Your Mirror, Is in this weeks Coffee House Magazine


Hello dear readers and followers, I am now back writing for “Coffee House Writers” magazine, after a 6 weak self-enforced break due to my personally hectic schedule during April and May. Luckily, I had my article ready for publication before I contracted ‘Covid’, and my poem “Behind Your Mirror”, is in this week’s edition of Coffee House Writers Magazine. … please click on the link below and visit my poem, at Coffee House Writers. >> https://coffeehousewriters.com/behind-your-mirror/


Behind Your Mirror 


At the local veil sales 

You will hear me ask 

“Are you wearing a mask” 
 

You, lurking in the back pews

Beyond your mirror’s view 

Waiting to be rescued 


When you return home 

If you roll away your mirror of stone 

You will no longer be alone 






Ivor Steven (c) May 2023

Drizzly Drops, is in this week’s Coffee House Writers Magazine

Hello dear readers and followers, I now write for “Coffee House Writers” magazine on a fortnightly basis, and my poem “Cracks and Holes”, is in this week’s edition of Coffee House Writers Magazine. … please click on the link below and visit my poem, at Coffee House Writers. >> https://coffeehousewriters.com/drizzly-drops/ 


Drizzly Drops




Small skinny rain drops

Dribble out of the stonewashed clouds

Dripping like sheets wrung out to dry

The birds keep singing, always able to cope

Unperturbed by the grizzly sky


My lightweight coat

Feels like a warm bath-sponge

And my shaggy dog

Looks like a wet dirty mop

He gives himself a watery shake

I laugh, and we continue on our way

Nature’s gentle drizzly drops

Give us no reason to stop








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Ivor Steven: email, ivorrs20@gmail.com

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AND
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Ivor Steven (c) April 2023

Cracks and Holes, by Ivor Steven

>> https://coffeehousewriters.com/cracks-and-holes/

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CRACKS AND HOLES

    Coffee House Writers / Ivor Steven


    There are cracks on the internet 
    Is there a hole in the alphabet? 

    There are cracks in the ground 
    Is there a hole in the Pound? 

    There are cracks in my skin 
    Is there a hole in the garbage bin? 

    There are cracks in the skyline 
    Is there a hole in my shrine? 

    There is a crack in my Mind 
    Is the world a hole in decline? 

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    LIFESTYLE, WORLD, CREATIVE WRITING

      Ivor Steven

      Ivor Steven was formerly an Industrial Chemist, then a Plumber, and has been writing poetry for 19 years. He has had numerous poems published in anthologies, and on-line magazines. He is an active member of the Geelong Writers Inc.(Australia), and is a team member/barista with the on-line magazine “Go Dog Go Cafe” (America).

      Cracks and Holes, is in this week’s Coffee House Writers Magazine

      Hello dear readers and followers, I now write for “Coffee House Writers” magazine on a fortnightly basis, and my poem “Cracks and Holes”, is in this week’s edition of Coffee House Writers Magazine. … please click on the link below and visit my poem, at Coffee House Writers. >> https://coffeehousewriters.com/cracks-and-holes/



      Cracks and Holes


      There are cracks in the internet

      Is there a hole in the alphabet?

      There are cracks in the ground

      Is there a hole in the Pound?

      There are cracks in my skin

      Is there a hole in the garbage bin?

      There are cracks in the skyline

      Is there a hole in my shrine?

      There is a crack in my Mind

      Is the world a hole in decline?









      Tullawalla is Available From

      Jaymah Press:https://www.jaymahpress.com.au/

      Ivor Steven: email, ivorrs20@gmail.com

      Amazon: search via, ‘Tullawalla by Ivor Steven’


      AND
      Perceptions is Now Available via:


      Amazon: https://amzn.asia/d/4yFHWrT

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      OR: email me directly for a signed copy – ivorrs20@gmail.com



      Ivor Steven (c) March 2023

      A Beetle Called Bertha, is in this week’s Coffee House Writers Magazine

      Hello dear readers and followers, I now write for “Coffee House Writers” magazine on a fortnightly basis, and my poem “A Beetle Called Bertha”, is in this week’s edition of Coffee House Writers Magazine. … please click on the link below and visit my poem, at Coffee House Writers. >> https://coffeehousewriters.com/a-beetle-called-bertha/


      A Beetle Called Bertha



      I tip-toe among the little critters

      That wriggle and flitter

      Along our shared grassy track

      They like to stop and have a chat

      And proudly pose for a photo

      When I am on my tummy down low




      Today I met a beetle called Bertha

      A lady who was frank and earthy

      And like my grandma, her family came first

      She protected her offspring through every cloudburst

      And I seriously agreed with the lady beetle

      That little critter’s mothers were not unlike people








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      Ivor Steven: email, ivorrs20@gmail.com

      Amazon: search via, ‘Tullawalla by Ivor Steven’


      AND
      Perceptions is Now Available via:


      Amazon: https://www.amazon.com.au/Perceptions-Ivor-Steven/dp/1387487302/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1RD27PWFI9JPS&keywords=perceptions+by+ivor+steven&qid=1676894211&s=books&sprefix=Perceptions%2Cstripbooks%2C1174&sr=1-1

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      OR: email me directly for a signed copy – ivorrs20@gmail.com

      Ivor Steven (c) March 2023

      Birds on Fences, is in This Weeks Coffee House Writers Magazine

      Hello dear readers and followers, I now write for “Coffee House Writers” magazine on a fortnightly basis, and my poem “Birds on Fences”, is in this week’s edition of Coffee House Writers Magazine. … please click on the link below and visit my poem, at Coffee House Writers. >> https://coffeehousewriters.com/birds-on-fences/

      Birds have commandeered my poetic imagination lately.


      Birds on Fences


      What side of the fence

      do you sit on?

      Birds perched on fences

      look down on the earth




      Birds on fences know

      The grass is not always greener

      on the other side

      Is there ever

      a winning side

      or a losing side




      Birds on fences know

      Worms burrow holes

      on both sides

      Shadows grow longer

      under the one sun

      Dawn rises on the dark side

      and the sun sets on the bright side


      Birds on fences know

      That the mystery of our universe

      can be seen in a blade of grass







      Tullawalla is Available From

      Jaymah Press:https://www.jaymahpress.com.au/

      Ivor Steven: email, ivorrs20@gmail.com

      Amazon: search via, ‘Tullawalla by Ivor Steven’


      AND
      Perceptions is Now Available via:


      Amazon: https://www.amazon.com.au/Perceptions-Ivor-Steven/dp/1387487302/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1RD27PWFI9JPS&keywords=perceptions+by+ivor+steven&qid=1676894211&s=books&sprefix=Perceptions%2Cstripbooks%2C1174&sr=1-1

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      OR: email me directly for a signed copy – ivorrs20@gmail.com

      Ivor Steven (c) February 2023

      Let Us Grow (a Memento), is up at Coffee House Writers Magazine

      Hello dear readers and followers, I now write for “Coffee House Writers” magazine on a fortnightly basis, and my poem “Let Us Grow (a Memento)”, is in this week’s edition of Coffee House Writers Magazine. … please click on the link below and visit my poem, at Coffee House Writers. >> https://coffeehousewriters.com/let-us-grow/



      Let Us Grow (a Memento)


      The flowers still stand tall and strong

      After the ghastly storm

      Not long

      They cry, before the bees do swarm

      All day they hum their song

      Conform


      They remain a unified team

      Work together they say

      Then beam

      Enjoy our colourful display 

      Retain us in your dreams

      Always



      “The Great Gates Of Kiev”, Writer(s): Greg Lake, Keith Noel Emerson
      How amazingly appropriate for todays world, written in 1971

      Come forth, from love’s pyre
      Born in life’s fire,
      Born in life’s fire
      Come forth, from love’s pyre
      In the burning, of our yearning
      For life to be
      And in pain there will (must) be gain
      New Life!

      Stirring in salty streams
      And dark hidden seams
      Where the fossil sun gleams

      They were, sent from (to) the gates
      Ride the tides of fate
      Ride the tides of fate
      They were, sent from (to) the gates
      In the burning of our yearning
      For life to be





      Tullawalla is Available From

      Jaymah Press:https://www.jaymahpress.com.au/

      Ivor Steven: email, ivorrs20@gmail.com

      Amazon: search via, ‘Tullawalla by Ivor Steven’


      AND
      Perceptions is Now Available via:

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      OR: email me directly for a signed copy – ivorrs20@gmail.com

      Ivor Steven (c) February 2023

      The Untouchable and Invisible World, is up at Coffee House Writers Magazine 

      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 and visit my poem, at Coffee House Writers.
      >> https://coffeehousewriters.com/the-untouchable-and-invisible-world/


      The Untouchable and Invisible World 

       
       
       
      The uncontrollable Digital World  

      Is stuck in an unstoppable whirl  

      Untouchable like a hot crazy lava flow  

      And madder than a mist and snow in the Congo 


       

      We cannot physically experience the wireless connection 

      Our world’s computer reliance is a mental autoinfection 

      Desperately requiring a House of Correction  

      Before we crash into the horizon’s unmanned intersection 







      Tullawalla is Available From

      Jaymah Press:https://www.jaymahpress.com.au/

      Ivor Steven: email, ivorrs20@gmail.com

      Amazon: search via, ‘Tullawalla by Ivor Steven’


      AND
      Perceptions is Now Available via:

      Jaymah Press: https://www.jaymahpress.com.au/

      Lulu Books: https://www.lulu.com/shop/ivor-steven-and-derrick-knight/perceptions/hardcover/product-2pwqe4.html?q=Perceptions+by+Ivor+Steven&page=1&pageSize=4

      OR: email me directly for a signed copy – ivorrs20@gmail.com


      Ivor Steven (c) January 2023


      A Cup of Coffee on The House 





      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 







      Tullawalla is Available From

      Jaymah Press:https://www.jaymahpress.com.au/

      Ivor Steven: email, ivorrs20@gmail.com

      Amazon: search via, ‘Tullawalla by Ivor Steven’


      AND
      Perceptions is Now Available via:

      Jaymah Press: https://www.jaymahpress.com.au/

      Lulu Books: https://www.lulu.com/shop/ivor-steven-and-derrick-knight/perceptions/hardcover/product-2pwqe4.html?q=Perceptions+by+Ivor+Steven&page=1&pageSize=4

      OR: email me directly for a signed copy – ivorrs20@gmail.com

      Ivor Steven (c) January 2023