Month: March 2023

Twilight’s Bookends


The Image Above: Is a copy of my “Instagram” post >> http://www.instagram.com/ivors20



Twilight’s Bookends  


The soft clouds have finished cruising 

above the prismatic horizon 


The sky’s golden curtain descends 

upon twilight’s fathomless bookends 


There, behind the world’s flickering drapes 

the starry, starry universe awaits 







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Ivor Steven (c) March 2023

Alexander (a Haiku)



Where do you go to?

My Alexander beetle

Striding so calmly









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Ivor Steven (c) March 2023

Throwback Friday, Street Art, The Other Half, by Ivor Steven

Posted this morning on “Go Dog Go Cafe” >> https://godoggocafe.com/2023/03/03/throwback-friday-street-art-the-other-half-by-ivor-steven/

Today’s “Throwback” article was originally posted in September 2018

The featured Image above, was after I’d walk around the city centre of Geelong taking all of these photos,.. I had to have refreshments, and the best place seemed to be Pistol Pete’s Blues Bar, with loud music, tasty food and a cold beer or two.






For those followers of Australian Rock Music, the above mural is of Chrissy Amphlett,  she was a Geelong girl, and lead singer of the Divinyls, one of our great bands during the 1980’s and 1990’s









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AND
Perceptions is Now Available via:

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Ivor Steven (c) March 2023

Nature Remembers (a Haiku)





Nature Remembers (a Haiku)


The red lily blooms

In February each year

Memories of you








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AND
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Ivor Steven (c) March 2023

Dust In My Eye


Above Artwork: By my niece, Kerri Costello




Dust In My Eye




I felt gravity’s pressure drop

When I noticed time had stopped

There, beyond our gray sky

Sunlight was beginning to die

Is Doomsday plunging into our sty?

Or, has future’s dust inhabited my eye








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AND
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Ivor Steven (c) March 2023

In Need of a Wise Owl

“In Need of a Wise Owl” is a poem from my book “Perceptions”, and I have scanned “page 4” directly out of my copy and reproduced it here, to give everyone an idea of how each page appears to the reader. The wonderful photos are by Derrick Knight (Southern England), and all have one of my Ekphrastic poems below the associated image. The fantastic cover artwork is by my amazingly talented niece Kerri (Bensalem, USA)

“Déjà Vu”. Lyrics by, Crosby Stills Nash & Young

One, two, three, four

If I had ever been here before
I would probably know just what to do, don’t you?
If I had ever been here before on another time around the wheel
I would probably know just how to deal with all of you

And I feel like I’ve been here before
Feel like I’ve been here before
And you know it makes me wonder
What’s going on under the ground, hmm

Do you know? Don’t you wonder
What’s going on down under you?

We have all been here before, we have all been here before
We have all been here before, we have all been here before
We have all been here before, we have all been here before



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Ivor Steven (c) March 2023