April 2024 – Page 3 – Ivor.Plumber/Poet

Woof, Woof, Are You Listening (Written by Frankie)

Woof, Woof, Are You Listening (Written by Frankie)

Ah, there he is

On that silly old computer again!

“Woof, woof, stop!”

As I stomp my paw

On the keyboard

“Woof, woof

It’s time for our walkies”

Then he pretends not to hear me

“WOOF, WOOF”, I bark louder!

“Yes! Ok, as soon as I finish the next verse

I’ll get your lead and off we’ll go”

“Yeah

woof, woof

he heard me that time”

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Ivor Steven (c) April 2024

Throwback Friday, Fiery Pearls and an Ambient Eye

I wrote this six-line poem back in July 2022, and as is my way, today, I have slightly altered the wording.

“Since I don’t believe in anything
I can pretend about everything” … (anonymous)

Fiery Pearls and an Ambient Eye (Revised)

The stars are the universe’s fiery pearls

And when smoke falls into my eyes

Her leftover embers rekindle my heart

The silver moon is my world’s ambient eye

And when my mind falls out of focus

Her warrior radiance enlightens my soul

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Ivor Steven (c) April 2024

Shangri La, Volume 7. Grey Clouds Have Rainbows

FREE PDF COPY >>> Links Below

Hello, dear readers and followers, as you might know, I stopped producing my “Tullawalla Booklets” at # 31, because that was the house number of our family’s Tullawalla Homestead.
But the booklet formats are a superb way for me to catalogue the vast number of poems I produce and as the saying goes “I Am Turning Another Page”. Here I have begun a new series of poem booklets, called “Shangri La” which is the name of my little Villa, and is my piece of “earthly paradise, a retreat from the pressures of modern civilization”.
Incredibly, I now have “1686” Poems filed in these booklet formats!!
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Grey Clouds Have Rainbows

The night is not always dark

You know

The moon has a bright side

The other side hides

in the Sun’s shadow

An icy pond’s reflection

Has the wrong image

Of whom was right

And grey clouds have rainbows

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Ivor Steven (c) April 2024

Leaning Against the Wind (a Musette)

Leaning Against the Wind (a Musette)

Threadbare
Leaning against
Despair

Kneeling
Unsupported
Reeling

Flatlined
Renders tough times
Maligned

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Ivor Steven (c) April 2024

Knots, Twists, and Autumn Leaves

Knots, Twists, and Autumn Leaves

Knots
Hold
My water-logged boots together
While plodding
Along
My soggy pathway

Twists
Bulge
From my leafless branches
While slowly falling
Away
From my family tree

Autumn leaves
Cushion
My fractured soul
While hibernating
Within
My guardian’s cocoon

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Ivor Steven (c) April 2024

Earth’s Silent Sky (a Tanka)

Earth’s Silent Sky (a Tanka)

Adrift in the sky

Grey clouds silently roll by

Inadvertently

Pushing the blue day away

Making Earth’s time turn darker

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Ivor Steven (c) April 2024

Polar Bears and Cold Sheep, is Published in the April Issue of “Positive Words Magazine”

I am thrilled to announce that my poem, “Polar Bears and Cold Sheep” has been published in the Positive Words Magazine, April Issue, and thank you to the Editor, Sandra, for selecting my poem… For further information about this fabulous Australian magazine, visit their site via this link > https://positivewordsmagazine.wordpress.com/
Attached below, I have scanned the poem directly from my copy of the Magazine

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Ivor Steven (c) April 2024

Throwback Friday, Really Real

After the Easter of 2019 (not long after spending 3 months in the hospital, recovering from 2nd & 3rd strokes’), I traveled to Philadelphia and Bensalem, for that “Really Real” adventure of a lifetime.
A big thank you to “All of My Family” in Philadelphia for a magically memorable escapade.

Really Real

I’m hazily awakening, from my afternoon slumber
Hearing a summer thunderstorm pounding
Wet fat drops splatter the ground
Greening the fields of Bensalem
Eyes curiously opening, I’m drifting
Floating upon a mystical cloud
In a magical mist, where faeries live
Happily dancing and prancing above my head
Gently fluttering on the edge of my Cosmo
Sprinkling my body with stardust, and blowing me kisses
And granting my real dreams and reality wishes