May the Whales Find Their Tails

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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

Outlaws Without Claws

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Outlaws Without Claws

Here I am without resistance

Waiting for existance

To give me due cause

As to when my heart is allowed a pause

Away from lethal claws

And government outlaws

Ivor Steven (c) August 2021

Waiting In Line For My Time

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Today’s prompt: What do you see in this photo? What do you feel? Express it in fifteen words or less
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Below is my ‘Fifteen Word’ poem

Waiting In Line For My Time

Am I the only one?
Am I early?
Or am I late?
For my wake

Ivor Steven (c) August 2021

Frankie Moves In

Not only am the writer/owner of “Tullawalla”, but also, I am now the happy owner/companion of “Frankie”, a 5 year-old Cavoodle, and he ‘Moved In’ yesterday.
And the Weekend Challenge from Weekly Prompts is: “In Motion.” please go over and visit their fabulous site by clicking >> Here

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Frankie Moves In

Frankie moves onto the lounge

Frank moves into nap-time

Frankie moves outside for a walk down the lane

Frankie moves downtown to the Box Office Cafe

Frankies moves to eat dinner and sweets (ice-cream)

Frankie moves onto “my/our” bed ready for his sleep-time

So that was Frankie “In Motion” today … I think he enjoyed his Saturday program of events ..
Apologies to Ian Anderson, but he does look a shaggie dog “In Motion” …

Throwback Friday, Burnt By the Cross, by Ivor Steven

This poem “Burnt By the Cross” is in my book “Tullawalla”

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Burnt at The Cross

Oh, Children

I’m deeply saddened

Your innocence lost

Burnt by the cross

You’re not to blame

For this baptism of shame

By the priest’s dirty games

Filthy rapists by any other name

Piously veiled by higher Cloth

The Lord’s words, written off

Hidden up darkened sleeves

I cannot see, I no longer believe

On a prayer and a song

The church is doing wrong

Ivor Steven (c) August 2021

Burnt Toast And A Cold Shower

The Wednesday Challenge from Weekly Prompts is: BURNT OFFERINGS, please go and visit their fabulous by clicking >> Here .. and the poem below is my response to the Prompt …

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And also Available at Amazon (Paperback), especially for those living in Australia, with an Amazon.au account, postage is at local rates rates ..

Tullawalla : Steven, Ivor, Harris, patricia, Costello, Kerri: Amazon.com.au: Books

Burnt Toast And A Cold Shower

When it’s so hard to get out of my warm bed

I force myself to throw the sheets off

And I face another day again

When the light doesn’t go on above my head

I replace the globe and flick the switch

And I see Again

When my shower hot water turns cold

I patiently wait for the boiler to reheat

And I shall be ready again

When the toaster burns my bread

I turn the grey dial down to three

And I restart again

When the kettle runs bone dry

I dutifully refill the jug

And enjoy a cuppa’ again

When breakfast is done and it’s time to run

I feel the advantage of being alive

And I smile at my world again

Ivor Steven (c) July 2018

Dragons and Faeries

Featured Image Above: From Sadje’s Photo Prompt #94 . And my poem below “Dragons and Faeries”, from my Book “Tullawalla”, is in response to Sadje‘s What do You See #94 photo prompt.

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And also Available at Amazon (Paperback), especially for those living in Australia, with an Amazon.au account, postage is at local rates rates ..

Tullawalla : Steven, Ivor, Harris, patricia, Costello, Kerri: Amazon.com.au: Books

Dragons and Faeries

My dragon flew me to New York

His scaly tail was singed

By the stoic statue’s torch

As we were landing upon Central Park

And in the city’s mystical forest I stood

Amongst strawberry fields and woods

Atop the plaque of my dreams

I imagined, how life should’ve been

My naked soul, a vision unseen

I have a dream, like John’s world

Togetherness, love pristine

The apple uneaten

And the snake shyly beaten

I see peace, within evil’s tiredness

Burnt-out flames, of the devil’s nakedness

Leaving us life’s leftover ashes

Then the peace dove shall arise from the ruins

And the lost faeries, will return as humans

Ivor Steven (c) August 2021

On Our Knees (a Haiku)

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Tullawalla : Steven, Ivor, Harris, patricia, Costello, Kerri: Amazon.com.au: Books

On Our Knees (a Haiku)

Love floats on our seas

Love feels like a gentle breeze

Love lives in our trees

Ivor Steven (c) August 2021

Sea of Fires

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Sea of Fires

Awake weary soul today

Free from the ash and clay

Allow wings to unfurl

Reopen eyes to the world

Beyond the sea of fires

Unfold life’s forseen desires

Ivor Steven (c) August 2021

The Highway to Old Gundagai

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The Highway to Old Gundagai

The golden towers of Babylon

Have long been overgrown

The deserts sacred oases

Are dried up wells, poisoned by the sky

The yellow brick road

Has melted into tacky bitumen

The bridge over troubled waters

Rests upon crumbling arcades

The long and winding journeys

Twist beyond modern barricades

The highway to old Gundagai

Has turned into a forbidden causeway

And the stairway to heaven

Is becoming a slippery cascade

Ivor Steven (c) August 2021

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