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.

In The End

“When you’re sad and when you’re lonely and you haven’t got a friend
Just remember that death is not the end” … Bob Dylan


In The End


Destiny has his say

In the oddest of ways


Destiny has his way

Even on the finest of days


In the end

We do not have a say


At the end

Finality overtakes our stay








Ivor Steven ©  July 2023

Sadness (a Senryu)






Below the grayness

Naked emotions stumble

Between the 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:

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Ivor Steven (c) July 2023

Our Blushing Star (an Epigram) 

This is my 2nd Epigram poem and ‘I think” my piece qualifies as an Epigram format … If there is a literary reader/poet out there reading my poem, I would be glad to receive some advice.


Our Blushing Star (an Epigram) 
 
 
 

When I see an evening sky alight 

I wish upon our blushing Star 

With all my imaginable might 

For peace to be our only Avatar 









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

Throwback Friday, Taking Shape

Today I am presenting another poem that will be appearing in my new book “Until Eyes Hear Sound”. I wrote ‘Taking Shape’ in December 2020, and the poem will be the opening piece in Chapter 8. Poetry in Slow Motion. And ironically the day after my 72nd birthday, the poem is quite appropriate …




Taking Shape


Today I forgot the date

I’ve yet to set foot on the landscape

And I cannot recall last night’s videotape

Maybe I went to bed too late

Or did I drink too many of those red grapes

I’m fighting with my breakfast crepe

And losing the battle to look shipshape

It’s time to put on my battered Superman cape

And unlock last year’s rusty gate

Ready for next year’s great escape







Ivor Steven ©  July 2023

About Today

“Do not try to live forever, you will not succeed.” George Bernard Shaw


About Today


They say ‘seventy-two’

Is the optimum room temperature

Today, I reached that ideal peak


I am not feeling older or any bolder

But my bones are weaker and colder

And heavy headstones have scored my shoulders


One day, time will have the final say

And while my eyes hear sound

I shall continue to write about today







Ivor Steven (c) July 2023

Behind the Blinds, We Hear the Music





Behind the Blinds, We Hear the Music




We are relaxing at the Box Office Cafe

The rustic venue is nearly full

Despite the day’s wintry wind

Everyone is warm and comfortable

Behind the verandah’s new protective blinds


We are listening to a glorious song by Sigur Ros

Playing to a happy community gathering

At a bucolic open-air stage in Iceland

And the stirring concert auspiciously reflects

The collective ambience of our surroundings








Ivor Steven (c) July 2023

Whispering Wind (Revised)

A poem of mine that had been hidden away in my files. I originally wrote the piece in August 2018 and here I am presenting my revised version, which I rewrote today.




Whispering Wind (Revised)


I hear the wind whistling in the trees

Melodic sounds of rustling leaves

Swirling down through the branches

Nature’s prancing colourful dancers

Fluttering faeries of the forest floor

I hear the wind applause for more

Seasonal breezes carrying pollen spores


Germinating ancient lands over the eons

Eden’s garden of blossom and vines

Serving our tables with fruit and wines

I hear the wind reciting my memories and rhymes







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