Author: ivor20

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.

Golden Wattle Tree

Golden Wattle Tree

your iridescent flower

distinguishes itself

like a lighthouse

in the forest

a beacon

for the bees

a home

for the hummingbirds

your rich yellow blossom

intensifies

in the morning sun

you are a neon light

of the highway

a golden statue

nature’s own

torch of liberty

Tullawalla is Available From

Jaymah Press:https://www.jaymahpress.com.au/

Ivor Steven: email, ivorrs20@gmail.com

Amazon: search via, ‘Tullawalla by Ivor Steven’

AND
Perceptions is Now Available via:

Amazon: https://amzn.asia/d/4yFHWrT

Jaymah Press: https://www.jaymahpress.com.au/

Lulu Books: https://www.lulu.com/shop/ivor-steven-and-derrick-knight/perceptions/hardcover/product-2pwqe4.html?q=Perceptions+by+Ivor+Steven&page=1&pageSize=4

OR: email me directly for a signed copy – ivorrs20@gmail.com

Ivor Steven (c) August 2023

Shangri La, Volume 3. Below the Trees and Bushes

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 that I produce and as the saying goes “I Am Turning Another Page”. Here I have begun a new series of poem booklets, and they are 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”.
Incredibily, I now have a total of “1502” Poems filed in these booklet formats!!
Click on >> Here for the link to your FREE: PDF Copy of “Shangri La, Volume 3. Below the Trees and Bushes“.

Below the Trees and Bushes

How far, is too far?

Too far away from home

Too far away from love

Love does not grow on trees

Love grows inside trees

Love flows down

Down inside the tree roots

The tree roots of our homes

The tree roots that wrap around our hearts

The tree roots that capture our souls

Ivor Steven (c) August 2023

Night Shadows (a Haiku)

Night Shadows (a Haiku)

When the moon is full

I hear the world’s sins tremble

Below night shadows

Tullawalla is Available From

Jaymah Press:https://www.jaymahpress.com.au/

Ivor Steven: email, ivorrs20@gmail.com

Amazon: search via, ‘Tullawalla by Ivor Steven’

AND
Perceptions is Now Available via:

Amazon: https://amzn.asia/d/4yFHWrT

Jaymah Press: https://www.jaymahpress.com.au/

Lulu Books: https://www.lulu.com/shop/ivor-steven-and-derrick-knight/perceptions/hardcover/product-2pwqe4.html?q=Perceptions+by+Ivor+Steven&page=1&pageSize=4

OR: email me directly for a signed copy – ivorrs20@gmail.com

Ivor Steven (c) August 2023

Throwback Friday, Wonderment Rings True

Today I am presenting another poem that will be appearing in my new book “Until Eyes Hear Sound”. I wrote ‘Wonderment Rings True’ in September 2020, and the poem will be the opening piece in the Fantasy Section, of Chapter 9. Humour, Fantasy, Faeries, and Weird.

Wonderment Rings True

My imagination’s beaming

Alive and dreaming

Even when I’m sleeping

Tired eyes are peeping

Searching for the milky-way

Flying there, on my open sleigh

And sailing the air-waves

High above broadway

Steering my spacecraft, Itmims**

While reading The Brothers Grimm

And playing a tune on my old violin

The theme from ‘Lord of the Rings’

I’m a visionary sky Pilot

With a handful of violets

Travelling beyond a silvery moon

To float upon our blue lagoon

**Itmims … “Ivor’s Time Machine In Micro Space”

Tullawalla is Available From

Jaymah Press:https://www.jaymahpress.com.au/

Ivor Steven: email, ivorrs20@gmail.com

Amazon: search via, ‘Tullawalla by Ivor Steven’

AND
Perceptions is Now Available via:

Amazon: https://amzn.asia/d/4yFHWrT

Jaymah Press: https://www.jaymahpress.com.au/

Lulu Books: https://www.lulu.com/shop/ivor-steven-and-derrick-knight/perceptions/hardcover/product-2pwqe4.html?q=Perceptions+by+Ivor+Steven&page=1&pageSize=4

OR: email me directly for a signed copy – ivorrs20@gmail.com

Ivor Steven (c) August 2023

A Blue Wonder

Featured Image Above: I received the photo from my niece, Jasmine, who lives interstate in Sydney. The photo is of an old painting of my wife’s (Carole) that I have not seen for 25 years … and a hearty thank you to dear Jazzy for locating and reframing Carole’s wonderful painting.

A Blue Wonder

“Blue hills or blue waves”

I originally asked her

“Whatever your eyes hear”

She eloquently replied

Yesterday, I received a keepsake photo

Of an old painting of Hers, called “Blue”

Today, the ocean’s deep blue

Is where my veiled emotions lie

Tomorrow, the alp’s serene blue

Will covertly visit my soul

Ivor Steven (c) August 2023

A Half-Withered Water-Reed, 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 “A Half-Wither Water-Reed”, 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/a-half-withered-water-reed/

Ivor Steven © August 2023

Frankie’s Cake (a Huiku)

We’re at the Cafe

Frankie’s guarding our table

And his carrot cake

Tullawalla is Available From

Jaymah Press:https://www.jaymahpress.com.au/

Ivor Steven: email, ivorrs20@gmail.com

Amazon: search via, ‘Tullawalla by Ivor Steven’

AND
Perceptions is Now Available via:

Amazon: https://amzn.asia/d/4yFHWrT

Jaymah Press: https://www.jaymahpress.com.au/

Lulu Books: https://www.lulu.com/shop/ivor-steven-and-derrick-knight/perceptions/hardcover/product-2pwqe4.html?q=Perceptions+by+Ivor+Steven&page=1&pageSize=4

OR: email me directly for a signed copy – ivorrs20@gmail.com

Ivor Steven (c) August 2023

Views

Views

I Started my WordPress Website in June 2017
Six weeks later, at the end of July 2017
My site had managed to receive 1,650 views
The world of blogging was new and difficult for me
And I was surprised at how many people
Were reading my humble little poems

Today, at the end of July six years later on
I am ecstatically proud to announce that my website
Has amassed a staggering “Quarter of a Million” Views
A hearty thank you to all of my friends, readers, and followers
I am not sure how to assess such an overwhelming statistic
But I suppose this means my “retirement” plans are on hold!

Tullawalla is Available From

Jaymah Press:https://www.jaymahpress.com.au/

Ivor Steven: email, ivorrs20@gmail.com

Amazon: search via, ‘Tullawalla by Ivor Steven’

AND
Perceptions is Now Available via:

Amazon: https://amzn.asia/d/4yFHWrT

Jaymah Press: https://www.jaymahpress.com.au/

Lulu Books: https://www.lulu.com/shop/ivor-steven-and-derrick-knight/perceptions/hardcover/product-2pwqe4.html?q=Perceptions+by+Ivor+Steven&page=1&pageSize=4

OR: email me directly for a signed copy – ivorrs20@gmail.com

Ivor Steven (c) July 2023

The Hands of Time

The Weekend Challenge on Weekly Prompts is the word: Property. You can visit their fabulous site by clicking on >> Here … My poem below, is about the elusive “Properties” of Time

The Hands of Time

Time and time again

I do not have enough time

I cannot catch time

I cannot see time

And sometimes

I have even lost time

No matter the time

I have no time

To write a rhyme

Clean sheets wait for new lines

Empty pages are in mime

I cannot remember the time

When my heart’s rhythm

Last ticked in time

With the spare time

Inside my mind

Tullawalla is Available From

Jaymah Press:https://www.jaymahpress.com.au/

Ivor Steven: email, ivorrs20@gmail.com

Amazon: search via, ‘Tullawalla by Ivor Steven’

AND
Perceptions is Now Available via:

Amazon: https://amzn.asia/d/4yFHWrT

Jaymah Press: https://www.jaymahpress.com.au/

Lulu Books: https://www.lulu.com/shop/ivor-steven-and-derrick-knight/perceptions/hardcover/product-2pwqe4.html?q=Perceptions+by+Ivor+Steven&page=1&pageSize=4

OR: email me directly for a signed copy – ivorrs20@gmail.com

Ivor Steven (c) July 2023

The Old and the New

“Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance” … John Keats

Today I went into the City for an appointment with my ‘Specialist’ … everything went well and my visit finished early … I had 20 minutes to spare until the next bus was due … Yeah! … enough time to sneak into the nearby “Second-hand Bookshop”

I purchased 2 Books, The Complete Poems of “John Keats”, oh, what an amazing find, a truly gifted young poet who died at the age of 26, and a new book, “Night Train”, by a local well-known poet, Anthony Lynch.