Haiku:
After The Wine
Beyond the wine bar
Radiant sunset begins
Tired eyes failed to see
Ivor Steven (c) 2019
Hello dear readers, friends, and followers. I’ve got 24 days to go before I fly to New York, and my progress is improving everyday. I’m keeping myself busy, bike pedalling (On Yorkie) exercise sessions and walking 8000 steps a day, In between, I’ve been preparing my new booklet of poems. I’ve just finished the manuscript (Phew and yeah !!), and this one is called, “Tullawalla: “Leafless Branches”, No more hospital appointments, and I’ve been given the all-clear to fly away. Like my other 8 Booklets, all money’s that I collect from the sale of these booklets goes to the Geelong MS Charity Shop. The list of my 9 booklets is below. These booklets are all printed here in my little writing studio/haven, put together by hand, and they’re a foolscap size folder of 21 pages and 40 poems in each booklet
Tullawalla, Poems, By Ivor Steven Tullawalla, A Sign Of The Times Tullawalla, The Waves Say Goodbye Tullawalla, Who’s Left To Row The Boat Tullawalla, Home Is The Air I Breathe Tullawalla, Waiting Time Tullawalla, The Healing House Tullawalla, Beyond The Brick Wall
And, Tullawalla, Leafless Branches
Booklet #5: Home Is The Air I Breathe Booklet #6: Waiting Time
Booklet #7: Tullawalla, The Healing House My “Isolation Time”
Booklet#8: Tullawalla, Beyond The Brick Wall My front door.
And, Booklet #9, Tullawalla, Leafless Branches
Cheers
From Ivor xx
We will all travel, life’s journey
There’s reality in the end, a concluding count down
Finality occurs, not a shadow of doubt
Sooner or later, we have to retire, and work no more
Old tools are laid to rest, gathering dust
There’s a time, when we have to say goodbye
To that special one’s, sad crying eyes
Suddenly life propels us, to pass our friends lives
The people we knew, dwindle to a few
And beyond the lies, earth slowly dies
We the custodians, failed to see overcast skies
Our belief’s shriveled, inside religious sleeves
The jealous and greedy, are yet to eat their last supper
I hope tomorrow’s future, is better than today’s veiled ways
And yesterday’s trials, become the healing castle’s final say
Ivor Steven (c) 2019
Hello dear readers, my poem here is a collection of odds and ends, of mine, that I’ve jotted down and stored in my note-book. I’ve placed them together in some sort of order. I think the resultant poem has achieved an overall view of my thoughts for the month…..
Oh, how we dream
Ponder, our lost promises
Wait, one more time
Closed, shut are our eyes
What you see and feel
Are not always the true deal
I habitually step behind my veil
To see if I’m real
The powers behind me, turned on my light
There’s no need to return back to black
We don’t want too much by intention
We need what we haven’t got
Love, warmth and protection
That’s our missing lot
I’m not loaded with success
But from being down and out
I’m taking bigger steps now
Climbing every hillock
Then I’ll see the light
On top of my mountain
I’m not sure whether my palpitations
Are anxieties of recovery high’s
Pedalling across sea and sky
Or, sheer excitement of anticipation
Oh Leonard, your words are playing sweetly
I’m hearing the melodies of your songs
Ivor Steven (c) 2019
I’ve read this compassionate poem several times already, “I Do Run’s” words have touched me deeply. Please read, if you are so inclined,….. There is no instant solution, but together with trillions of humane hearts there shall always be hope……..
Don’t you dare turn those unicorn eyes toward me
And keep your sparkly sparkles to yourself
That field was truly not meant for running or singing or dancing or jumping for joy.
Just stop with the rainbows and the technicolor sunsets
No need for close ups of baby chubby thighs
Or even your thighs sunning on white sand beaches.
Enough of the Sunday mornings watching your lover breathe
And definitely no more spontaneous water fights with the kids
Even those first moments that bring tears of joy are not the moments for me
No, not for me, wondering, how you can enjoy when
…..Children are kept in cages, sold to the highest bidder
…..Women are forced into dangerous back alleys, not owning their bodies
…..Veterans sleep on cardboard boxes, crazy instead of courageous
…..People still being judged by the back of their hand or the hand they’re holding
Unicorns and…
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Ivor Steven (c) 2019
Haiku
I Climb
Step by step I climb
Steadily walking my path
Time is flying fast
“If You Wait”
If letters spell out words, son
You chose to put them in order, didn’t you
From the meaning, the moment you tried to take me on
From the air to the room A bed that I own
And can you give me everything,
Everything, everything
Cos I can’t give you anything
And if you wait, if you wait I will trust in time that we will meet again
If you wait
I will trust in time that we will meet again
Ivor Steven (c) 2019
Two weeks ago, on Friday 15th I was cleaning out my mailbox, throwing out all those annoying advertising pamphlets, when I happen to notice a little flyer that caught my attention. Yeah ! a book fair to held the next day in the West Geelong Town Hall. I missed last year’s event, and finding the advertisement was a pleasant surprise…. Yes I did go……….Yes I did buy a few books…. Yes the advertising did work… The Weekly Photo Prompt this week is: Advertising
Below: Some of the Poetry books I did discover and subsequently purchased, and I’m sure they’ll make for interesting reading on my flight over to New York…..
Ivor Steven (c) 2019
Fly free, fly high
My bamboo kite
Bright orange and green
A colourful gliding sight
Your counter-weight tail fluttering
Like a flowing rainbow in the sky
Flying freer, flying higher
Your ground chains are broken
And the strong anchoring rope
Has shrank to a golden thread
Go away, and climb
Above the silver clouds
Eventually your thread will fray
Leaving a slither of mellow twine
Not strong enough
To stop you breaking free
Never long enough
To stop you soaring higher
Ivor Steven (c) 2019