Month: August 2023

The White Azalea Peace Garden

Hello dear readers and followers, I am reposting this poem I wrote in July 2022 in response to Eugi’s “Moonwashed Weekly Prompt” – Peaceable … to visit her fabulous site, please click on >> Here





The White Azalea Peace Garden


I stare at the garden plaque

There on the ground

In front of the white Azalea bushes


I sit on the park bench and wonder

Here under a clear blue sky

Why? Does the sun shine on our world


I was born in nineteen fifty one

Here under a broken moon

During the second year of the Korean War


I stand and walk away

Where must I go?

To view the whole of the moon



Will We Choose Wisely? (a Senryu)

On Monday a Geelong Writers poetry group went to Rachinger Gallery in East Geelong for an Ekphrastic Poetry Workshop. Here I am presenting the painting, “Owl” by, Gale Jarmyn, and my associated Ekphrastic poem “Will We Choose Wisely”


Will We Choose Wisely? (a Senryu)




The owl shook his head

Angry feathers flew sideways

“You must choose wisely!”







Ivor Steven (c) August 2023

The Morning After





The Morning After



Tracking south

Stepping from one quiet cloud

Onto a whispering cloud

Following powdered footprints

Without displacing a feather

Without cracking the sky’s

Hypnotic blue eggshell

And daydreaming of the south

Without you








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Ivor Steven (c) August 2023

Neon Blue




Neon Blue (a Haiku)


Our sky’s neon blue

The bright side of winter blue

Warming our toes too










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Ivor Steven (c) August 2023

Why Do We Write? (a Quote)

My “Quote” was inspired by Arlene’s lovely article ‘On Writing’
>> https://arlene1956.wordpress.com/2023/08/20/on-writing/


Why Do We Write? (a Quote)


“The world caresses our eyes 

every day until we die. 

We write to arouse idle mind’s 

and soothe hearts with our soulful finds” … Ivor Steven









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Ivor Steven (c) August 2023

Where Have The Faeries Gone

RECENTLY PUBLISHED

Where Have The Faeries Gone?

ENVIRONMENT POETRY

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WHERE HAVE THE FAERIES GONE?

BY IVOR STEVEN/

AUGUST 21, 2023/

    Ivor Steven / Coffee House Writers

    Deep in the enchanted forest
    Under mossy rocks and water-reeds 
    I found an iron-bar door
    Lying over a sinkhole in the creek bed

    I wondered and yelled out
    Eerily, a gentle voice replied
    “Do not worry, we are sheltering here” 
    “Why are you hiding?” I inquired 
    “We are waiting for humanity  
    to stop the carnage on our planet”

    Then, peering up from lower in the chasm
    I witnessed that the small luminous eyes  
    Of Earth’s guardian faeries 
    Were en masse, joyless, and crying

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    Throwback Friday, Exposed (a Haiku)

    Today I am presenting another poem that will be appearing in my new book “Until Eyes Hear Sound”. I wrote ‘Exposed’ in October 2020, and the Haiku will be the opening piece in the ‘Haiku’ section of Chapter 10 . Short Poems: Haiku, Senryu, Tanka, and Others.

    Featured Image: The 14th China-Russia-Mongolia International Ice and Snow …Pinterest, 4 yrs ago





    Exposed (a Haiku)


    Cold droplets of rain

    Icicles stuck on bare skin

    Hinged by winter wind







    Ivor Steven (c) August 2023

    Where Have the Faeries Gone? is in this week’s Coffee House Writers Magazine

    Hello dear readers and followers, I am now writing for “Coffee House Writers” magazine on a fortnightly basis, and my poem “Where Have the Faeries Gone?”, is in this week’s edition of Coffee House Writers Magazine. … please click on the link below to view my poem, at Coffee House Writers Magazine. >> https://coffeehousewriters.com/where-have-the-faeries-gone/


    Music/Video: by Sigur Ros, “Ylur”, translated means, Warmth




    Ivor Steven ©  August 2023