Lullaby, (a Senryu)

Please Note: All above images (Except the one of Frankie), were by taken by Derrick Knight, and he kindly allows me to reproduce his wonderful photos here on my poetry website. If you wish, you may visit his fabulous Site via this link > https://derrickjknight.com/2023/05/17/baby-species/



Lullaby (a Senryu)



Sleep little ones, sleep

Our chaotic world will wait

Until eyes hear sound 

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Ivor Steven (c) May 2023

A Frollick of Forest Faeries

The mysterious Wilderness … The babbling stream … Frankie guarding the black door
Centre Photo (The babbling stream): by Derrick Knight
> https://derrickjknight.com/2023/05/09/why-did-the-lambs-cross-the-road/

A Frollick of Forest Faeries 

 
Wandering through the mysterious wilderness 

I glimpsed a shimmering flicker 

From within the woods somewhere 

Startled, I stumbled and fell forward 

There before me, was a glimmering black door 

And the shiny silver padlock was ajar 

Curiosity beckoned me to enter 

Such a baffling anomaly 

Jittering, I cautiously stepped inside  

Unexpectedly, splosh, my boots became soaked 

I had waded into a small babbling stream 

Below a softly gurgling cascade 

And there, elegantly fluttering  

Above the brooks mossy rocks 

A frollick of forest faeries 

Magically emerged to fervently welcome me 

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Ivor Steven: email, ivorrs20@gmail.com

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AND
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Ivor Steven (c) May 2023

Visitors and My Book Launch

“Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.” – Charles Addams
My two Philadephia cousins will be staying at my little abode in seven days time, which also happens to be the day of my “Perceptions” book launch. I have not been panicking “much”, and my cleaning-up and preparation has been a process of organised chaos!



Visitors and My Book Launch (a Tanka)

Before the events

Preparation means calmness

Self-doubts slowly fade

My cousins will be comfy

And the book launch is ready

Tullawalla is Available From

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Ivor Steven: email, ivorrs20@gmail.com

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AND
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Ivor Steven (c) April 2023

Arriving and Leaving, Visiting Her

Today I am linking my post to Sadje’s Weekly #Whatdoyousee prompt, please go over and visit her fabulous site by clicking on >> Here …

Featured Collage Above: the photos were taken by Derrick Knigkt, and kindly with his permission, he allows me to reproduce them here in collaboration with my poems. Here Below, are the photos before I created the “Canva Collage”

Arriving and Leaving, Visiting Her

arriving

via the cemetery gate

holding her flowers

hands quivering

heart quickens

bowing silently

reminiscing

smiling

wondering why

closing time

and visiting time

co-exist in life

leaving

via the cemetery path

renewing goodbyes

crying silently

breathing slowly

smiling

wondering why

closing time

and visiting time

co-exist in life

Tullawalla is Available From

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Ivor Steven: email, ivorrs20@gmail.com

Amazon: search via, ‘Tullawalla by Ivor Steven’


AND
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Ivor Steven (c) March 2023

Perceptions, From Jaymah Press

Today I am presenting an article about my recent book “Perceptions”, which was Edited & Published by Judy at Jaymah Press. Below I have attached my ‘Web-copy’ from Jaymah’s website, which clearly explains “our” book’s innovative concept …
Also, I am pleased to announce that my “book launch” for Perceptions will be on: Sunday 16th April 3.30pm, at the Box Office Cafe.

For Purchasing “Perceptions”

Here is the Link to Jaymah Press >> https://www.jaymahpress.com.au/

And here is my Email address (for your signed copy) > ivorrs20@gmail.com

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) March 2023

The World’s Fractured Mirror

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 …
Featured Image: Another marvelous photo by, Derrick Knight >> https://derrickjknight.com

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 

Tullawalla is Available From

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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) January 2023

The Core

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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Ivor Steven: email, ivorrs20@gmail.com

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AND
Perceptions is Now Available via:

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

Ivor Steven (c) January 2023

We Lost the “A” Side (a Senryu)

All Featured Images: were taken by Derrick Knight, and I sincerely thank him for allowing me reproduce his marvelous photos here on my poetry site.




We Lost the “A” Side (a Senryu)

There, on the “B”side

Of her undiagnosed moon

Lay my empty spoon

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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 – ivorr20@gmail.com

Ivor Steven (c) January 2023

Long Night Moon

The Midweek Challenge on Weekly Prompts is: Curiosities. Please visit their fabulous site by clicking on >> Here and I think my poem below is curious piece about the Winter Solstice

Featured Images Above & Below: were taken by Derrick Knight, who kindly allows me use his photos in conjunction with my poems >> https://derrickjknight.wordpress.com/2022/12/21/rising-ground-mist/

Long Night Moon
 
 
 
Dawn’s winter sunlight 

Filters through the gloom 

And softly kisses everything 

The loitering ground mist rises 

Above the cold night’s 

Bed of overlaying ferns 

As the season’s solstice 

Stealthily tiptoes away 

From the long night moon *



* The Long Night Moon gets its name because the full moon in December occurs near the solstice, which has the longest night of the year.

 

Tullawalla is Available From

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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/

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



Ivor Steven (c) December 2022

An Empty Bootie

Featured Image Above: Taken by Derrick Knight >> https://derrickjknight.com/2022/12/14/tingling-toes/



An Empty Bootie

The chilly winter’s day

Turned hard and bitter



“be a good little chap Dave

could you be brave

and venture back to the frozen lake

your baby sister Ava

has lost a bootie

and the weather is too cold

for her to go without“

Dave shrugs his shoulders

And trudges off

“Oh Ava, I wonder

What’s taking Dave so long”

Suddenly two hysterical children

Came running towards them

“Help!”

“we just a boy

fall through the ice

on the frozen lake

we look into the hole

but all we saw

was a babies bootie

“He was Gone!”

..

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) December 2022