FREE PDF COPY >>> Links Below
Hello, dear readers and followers. As you may know, I stopped producing my “Tullawalla Booklets” at #31 because that was the house number of our family’s Tullawalla Homestead.
However, the booklet format is 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”, the name of my little Villa, and it is my piece of “earthly paradise, a retreat from the pressures of modern civilization”.
I now have “2192” Poems filed in these booklet formats!!
(On my bookshelf, I have “The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, which contains 1775 poems … when I first started writing poems, I never envisaged that I would produce so many poems)
Click >> HERE, for the link to your FREE: PDF Copy of “Shangri La, Volume 17, River of Dreams.”
OR … Shangri La, Vol 17. River of Dreams.pdf



River of Dreams
I’ve been listening to the crows-
the smart ones, who should know.
Now I’m watching the ancient river flow
around the land’s long, sandy bend.
Do they know where, and when
the current’s undertow
comes to a becalmed end?
Ivor Steven (c) December 2025

Fab song which I featured just last week!
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Yes, one of his bestest, Nancy 🎶😍🌏📘
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Enjoy the music, dear Ivor. 🥰🎶🌎
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Ivor, when the crows speak, I listen! They can get very noisy if I don’t pay attention. 🙃
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Yes, they can be very persistent, Linda 🤗😍🌏
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You amaze me with the amount of poetry you write! On top of that — you enjoy ALL of it. I’m so proud of you. Keep the magic going.
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Thank you dear Claudia for your lovely words of encouragement and support 📖📘🌏😍💕
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thank you Ivor for sharing your poetry booklets with all of us! I appreciate them!
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You’re most welcome, Carol 📖📘🌏😍
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thank you so much for sharing this with us, Ivor –
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You’re welcome, and thank you for interesting post/s, Beth
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Oh wow so many poems Ivor 👏👏
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Sometimes I have to pinch myself … how many poems I’ve written, is way beyond my wildest dreams, Dezzie 📘📃💙🌏
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Thank you dear friend
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You’re welcome, Sadje
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Thanks ♥️
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I thought of this song as soon as I saw your poem. One of my favorite by Billy Joel.
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Yes, it’s great one my friend
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You are quite prolific!
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Yes! … but probably too prolific for my own good, Dale
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Haha! I can only keep up so much 🙂
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I suppose being so prolific has resulted in the upcoming publishing of my fourth book of poetry, Dale 📖📘🌏💙
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Well of course, my dear man! And that is a wonderful thing!
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so so SO wonderful, Ivor! Thank you for sharing with us!
Oh! and your fabulous trio of photo, poem, and song choice brought tears to my eyes. 🙂
(((HUGS))) ❤️❤️❤️
PS…I enjoy listening to the crows here who sit at the very tiptop of the tall bare winter trees and talk and talk and talk. 🙂
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Thank you very much, Carolyn … and here we are down by the bay, the is calm the the twilight sky is a clear cobalt blue; the silvery moon is over bay and we are lying on the green grass by waters edge, in a dream world of our own 😍🌏📘🐶💕💙
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Beautiful! contented-SIGH 🙂 💙
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