In one way or another
After leaving our mothers
Life delivers us to love and pain
While dancing in the rain
Ivor Steven © September 2022
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.
Throwback Friday, Beyond His Time Here, by Ivor Steven
My poem “Beyond His Time Here”, from September 2018 is up on Throwback Friday at ‘Go Dog Go Cafe’ magazine.
Today’s poem is from September 2018, and I have slightly revised some lines for this post.
Beyond His Time Here(Revised)
words written, during her silent years
dazed and unclear
words written, out of sheer fear
often drowning in tears
words written, softly severe
in everlasting revere
words written, for everyone to hear
reaching a new frontier
words written, clouds beginning to clear
love lingers, far and near
words written, needing someone to steer
this lost buccaneer
beyond his time here
Ivor Steven (c) September 2018
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…
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There’s A Crack In My China Soup Bowl
A poem I wrote in October 7th 2018
G’day to my readers here on WordPress, I’m not feeling well, and I’ve not been my usual self in being able to comment on all of your wonderful posts. I’m off to China on Wednesday morning, doing a compact 10 day sight-seeing tour, including the Great Wall of China. Hopefully I’ll be feeling betterer by then. Here’s my poem for today. I’d like to thank Kate of “Calmkate’, for the use of her words, “rank dank muddy waters”, which were basically the inspiration behind my gloomy poem, “There’s a Crack In My China Soup Bowl”, and also thanks to “Stella”, for giving me the idea for the Title of this poem.
There’s A Crack In My China Soup Bowl
My head’s full of black clouds
Drenched by the sky’s contaminated rain
My chest’s full of green slime
Drowned by the valley’s poisoned rivers
My eyes are full of yellow tears
Etched by the lake’s rank dank muddy waters
My heart’s full of grey blood
Permeated by the ocean’s mercury floor
There’s a stench in the air we breathe
How can we possibly leave
Walk up through those old rusty gates
Are we losing the battle, are we too late
Ivor Steven (c) 2018
Dreamless
A poem from a previous bad back month, in December 2019, seems to be appropriate
as I head into the second month of frustrating inactivity … Sorry, readers and followers for my continuing blogging absense …
Dreamless
Tap, tap, feel the back pain again
The drizzling pulse of dreamless rain
Falling on a hard pillow, wet and stained
The misty clouds of sleepless brain
Rivers of visions, once crystal clear
Now flooded fields of dreamless fears
Cascading mirrors, once reflective and sheer
Now broken pools of dreamless tears
Ivor Steven (c) Dec 2019
Standing On Unstable Ground
Featured Photo: by Derrick Knight, and a sincere thank you to Derrick for permitting me to use his fabulous image here in collaboration with my poem. This is now our “40th” collaborative article, and our joint book “Perceptions” is now in the hands of my editor/publisher (Judy, from Jaymah Press), and hopefully, the book will be in print before Christmas
Standing On Unstable Ground
Do not make me laugh
The pain would cut me in half
Instead
Pass me yesterday’s leftover chaff
Alas
I cannot leave you an autograph
I am a wounded grey donkey
Standing on unstable ground
Feeling disabled and lonely
And my inner damage is yet to be found
Ivor Steven © August 2022
Our Weeping Forest (a Haiku)
Thank you to Ryan Stone for being the source of my inspiration behind the words in this Haiku. Visit Ryan’s fabulous site via this link >> https://daysofstone.wordpress.com
Our Weeping Forest (a Haiku)
Who is listening?
Within the weeping forest
On the edge of time
Ivor Steven © August 2022
Promote Yourself Monday: August 29, 2022
Dear readers and followers, here’s a great opportunity for your writings to be read by other writers, and also to find and meet other writers. You are very welcome to participate, come along and visit our writer friendly site…..by clicking on the link at the bottom of this article >>
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Welcome toPromote Yourself Monday. All Go Dog Go Cafe community members are invited to postonelink to one specific piece of their writing (600 words or less please!) they have published on their blog, Facebook page, or Instagram feed into the comments section below.
If you post a link, be sure to read some of the other great writing people have linked to.
“Another Yellow Door”, by C Faherty Brown, my Review
This weekend, on Weekly Prompts, the challenge word is: Review (2). Please go over and visit their fabulous site by clicking on >> Here.
Below is my review of of C Faherty Brown’s new book “Another Yellow Door”, and you may visit her site via this link>> https://bikecolleenbrown.wordpress.com/
“Another Yellow Door”, by C Faherty Brown, my Review.
And you find Colleen’s book on Lulu Books, and also read all the other great reviews via this link >> https://www.lulu.com/shop/c-faherty-brown/another-yellow-door/paperback/product-r9jk4m.html?q=another+yellow+door&page=1&pageSize=4
“Another Yellow Door” enticingly invites you to join Bronagh on her travel log of adventure across USA, via an “off the beaten track” journey. Bronagh has converted her purpose-bought cargo van into a self-contained home on wheels, which has a distinct side opening “Yellow Door”. The door on her van proves to be like a yellow honey hive, attracting various characters who are openly curious enough to enquire about Bronagh’s fascinating van and her journey’s adventures. Bronagh is brave, but not overly confident of what she wants to achieve, or the actual purpose of her quest. She doesn’t know where she is traveling to, or why she is traveling in that direction … No Matter, jump aboard, sit in the empty passenger seat and enjoy the ride. You won’t be disappointed with where ever her journey happens to take you, and you’ll be more than enchanted with whoever she meets along the way. There were times I smiled with tears of joy and sometimes I cried tears of sadness … and overall I thoroughly enjoyed reading “another” fabulous book by C Faherty Brown
My collection of Colleen’s fabulous
I think Colleen has the same number of books as “Leonard Cohen” in my bookcase.
Ivor Steven (c) August 2022
Throwback Friday, Tiredness Leaves Me Wordless, by Ivor Steven
Today’s poem is from August 2018, and the words reflect how I have been feeling the last few weeks
Today’s poem is from August 2018, and the words reflect how I have been feeling the last few weeks
Tiredness Leaves Me Wordless
I’m wordless at the moment
My thoughts are in postponement
I hear Leonard’s songs
All night long
Lyrics full of love
Day lilies and doves
Today I hold her empty glove
My one truelove
Ivor Steven (c) August 2018
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…
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A Good Guide, is up at Coffee House Writers Magazine
Hello dear readers and followers, I now write for “Coffee House Writers” magazine on a fortnightly basis, and my poem “A Good Guide”, is in this week’s edition of Coffee House Writers Magazine. … please click on the link below to read my poem, at Coffee House Writers.
>> https://coffeehousewriters.com/a-good-guide/
Ivor Steven (c) August 2022
