Shangri La, Volume 21, Beyond the Midday Moon

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Hello, dear readers and followers. As you may know, I stopped producing my β€œTullawalla Booklets” at #31 because that was the house number of our family’s Tullawalla Homestead.
Yet the booklet format is a superb way for me to catalogue the vast number of poems I produce, and as the saying goes, β€œI Am Turning Another Page”. Here I have begun a new series of poem booklets, called β€œShangri La”, the name of my little Villa, and it is my piece of β€œearthly paradise, a retreat from the pressures of modern civilization”.
I now have β€œ2407” poems gathered across these booklets
(On my bookshelf, sits β€œThe Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, with 1775 poems β€” when I first began writing, I never imagined I would one day surpass that number.)

β€œLike all my booklets, this one is here to be read at your leisure β€” no rush, no expectation, just an open page waiting when you are.”

Click >> Here – for the link to your FREE: PDF Copy of β€œShangri La, Volume 21, Beyond the Midday Moon.”

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Beyond the Midday Moon


The midday moon
is less than 10Β° above the horizon β€”
low enough
for my weary wings
to fly over.

The morning clouds are dispersing,
and up here, above the moon,
my shadows are free
to echo my dreams.

Between the sky and the moon,
I gaze into their shared light β€”
sometimes life is out of sight,
other times everything is alright,
either way, they welcome
my unspoken words,
whether day or night.





A song that drifts in the same strange daylight as the poem β€” a quiet companion to the light above us.


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Until Eyes Hear Sound

Amazon >> Amazon.com : Until Eyes Hear Sound

Lulu Books >>  Until Eyes Hear Sound (lulu.com)



Perceptions:

Amazon >>  Perceptions : Steven, Ivor, Knight, Derrick: Amazon.com.au: Books
Lulu Books >>  Perceptions (lulu.com)



Tullawalla:

Amazon >> Tullawalla A Meeting Place Where My Empty Hands are Full of Memories and Rhymes : Steven, Ivor: Amazon.com.au: Books


OR: >> You may email me directly for a signed copy at
ivorrs20@gmail.com … and I can send you a PayPal account,
for the Book, plus Postage.


Ivor Steven Β©  July 2026

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G'day, and welcome to my blog site. My name is Ivor Steven, I live in Geelong, Australia. I'm an ex-industrial chemist, and a retired plumber, and a former Carer of my wife(Carole), for 30 years, who suffered from severe MS. I Write poetry about those personal thoughts, throughout and beyond my life as a Carer. I've been blogging for over 2 years, and writing poems for 19 years. Of course a lot of my poems are about my favourite subject Carole, but since I've been blogging my writings have become quite varied, humourous, mystical, observational, and even a few monster/horror poems.

19 thoughts on “Shangri La, Volume 21, Beyond the Midday Moon”

    1. Thank you very much indeed my dear friend … I was nearly going to toss the towel in with this one but persistence and stupidity prevailed πŸ“˜πŸ€—πŸŒπŸ“–

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      2. Hopefully my old machine will behave itself betterer this week… my Copilot app gave me a few handy hints about computer management πŸ“–πŸ–₯️πŸ₯°

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  6. Oh! Such a beautiful posting! Such a wonderful ode to the amazing mid-day moon and sky! πŸ™‚
    Congrats on Vol. 21, Ivor! Thank you for sharing it! πŸ™‚
    (((HUGS))) πŸ’›β‹†βŠ±ΰΌ»πŸŒ•ΰΌΊβŠ°β‹†πŸ’›
    PS… πŸ™‚ “Sometimes I see the moon in the middle of the day and know I am held by something so much bigger.” – Unknown πŸ™‚

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    1. Thank you for the wonderful, and so happens that I am drafting a moon poem at the moment, Carolyn …

      I turn and say to a watchful and perplexed Frankie
      β€œDon’t worry, we’re even too early for the school kiddies”
      but we are in time to see the moon’s coy white gaze
      before sliding down beyond the horizon’s morning haze.
      You know my friend, we are incredibly fortunate
      to be witnessing such a phenomenal cosmic moment.”
      πŸ’™πŸŒ–πŸ“–πŸΆπŸŽΆ

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  9. Between the sky and the moon, I gaze into their shared light, sometimes life is out of sight, other times everything is alright.” Ivor, that line. That acceptance of both states, holding them with equal grace. That’s the kind of wisdom that only comes from 2,407 poems and 19 years of choosing to write through everything.
    The fact that you surpassed Dickinson’s count feels less like a competition and more like a conversation across time, two people saying: we have something to witness, something to say, and we won’t stop.
    Thank you for not stopping. πŸ’™

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    1. Oh, thank you so much for your wonderful appraisal and appreciation of my poem, Khadija … and I shall go over check your site out .. in the morning, it’s 11.15pm here in Geelong πŸ₯°πŸŒ

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      1. Take your time, Ivor! Geelong nights are precious enjoy them. And yes, come by when you’re ready. So grateful for poets like you who hold both the darkness and the light in the same breath. Sleep well, and thank you for your words. They matter.

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