Shangri La, Volume 22, The Blue Fescue

Note: Sorry for my lack of blogging over the past couple of days — time has been running a bit too fast for this old poet. Between radio rehearsals, CHW submissions, and tending to my own poetry website, I’ve been stretched thin. Even so, I’ve managed to bring together Shangri La, Volume 22. After a breather tomorrow, hopefully things will be back to normal.

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 our family’s Tullawalla Homestead house number.
Yet 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 “2458” poems gathered across these booklets
(On my bookshelf sits “The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, with 1775 poems — when I first began writing, I never imagined I would one day surpass that number.)

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

Click >> Here – for the link to your FREE: PDF Copy of “Shangri La, Volume 22, The Blue Fescue.”

OR … Shangri La, Volume 22, The Blue Fescue.pdf



The Blue Fescue


Above Earth’s governing clouds,
beyond the atmosphere’s
atomic shrouds,
I hear the sun’s white veneer
pulsating from inside
the sky’s diminishing blue.

There hiding — teary-eyed —
waiting for an overdue
enlightening breakthrough
to cure the world’s
stewed blue fescue.






A song for the shifting sky — a reminder that even in the blur between heroes and villains, we’re still searching for the light that carries us forward.


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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 invoice
for the Book, plus Postage.



Ivor Steven ©  October 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.

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      4. Because I’ve had 3 strokes, I’m still susceptible to these annoying events… mental weariness (brain fog) … recovery time varies, and yes, all I can do is rest up … well it’s pouring rain today, so that’ll help me get the rest I need … 😴🤗

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  3. You are doing a lot of important things…and please please please remember to take (and or make) times to rest and dream in between. 🙂
    We are here. We care. We are rooting you on! 🥳
    YAY for “Shangri La – Volume 22! 🙂
    Fab photo, poem and song today! (((HUGS))) and ❤️❤️❤️ for you and Frankie!!! 🙂

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