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, Wondering And Wandering Again, by Ivor Steven

A poem I wrote 2 years before ‘covid’ took hold … eerie ..

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Funny enough my poem today is not about life in ‘covid’ times, as I wrote this piece in June 2018, but on reading this poem today, the theme could well pertain to our ‘covid’ lockdown situation here at the moment in Geelong … hmmm eerie …

Wondering And Wandering Again

Do you every have that vacant feeling

Silently in a void, wandering

Darkness has fallen

Clouds shroud the moon

Misty rain cools the night-air

Wondering what happened to your daytime

Hours of down-time

What have you done?

Memories of your day have gone

Nothing in your hand

Blankness in your mind

Decoding untold stories

Writing on empty blue lines

Words of hidden rhymes

With invisible ink that runs away

Eloping with your pen

To find a better day

And leaving you alone again

Ivor Steven (c) June 2018

G’day, and welcome to my blog site. My name is Ivor Steven…

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I Cannot Remember Aunt’s Name

My poem today is the other poem that I wrote at Ali Grimshaw’s, poetry ‘Writing Circle’ Zoom meeting event on Tuesday.. Once again it was a privilage to be a part of a wonderful gathering of kindred poets. And I thoroughly reccommend Ali’s Writing Circle programs to all interested poets out there, you will not be disappointed if you decide to attend… You may connect with her site via this link >>
https://flashlightbatteries.blog/.

I Cannot Remember Aunt’s Name

what do I remember

of yesterday

my memory is softened

and in decay

bouquets and birthdays

have left on Santa’s sleigh

I do recall my sister’s banquet

on Boxing Day

and I am not to delay

a trip to my Aunt in Adelaide

Ivor Steven (c) August 2021

The Wind Whispers, The Wind Sighs

An exquisite poem by Ryan Stone. I thoroughly recommend that you have a read … Ryan is an Australian poet …

days of stone

– after Longfellow

The wind whispers, the wind sighs,
the dawn light brightens, a magpie cries;
amongst the gum trees tall and green
a girl becomes a faerie queen.
And the wind whispers, the wind sighs.

Morning settles beneath silk skies,
her reign flits by like dragonflies;
deep shadows dress the naked hill
in dusk, as faerie wings fall still.
And the wind whispers, the wind sighs.

Night throws a cloak; a barn owl cries,
another answers, stars blink their eyes.
The queen is gone, won’t come again;
these woods forever will remain.
And the wind whispers, the wind sighs.

– Ryan Stone

first published at Poetry Nook, May 2020

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In This Limbo, (at Coffee House Writers)

Hello dear readers and followers, as you may know, I now write for “Coffee House Writers” on a fortnightly basis, and my poem “In This Limbo”, is this weeks edition of Coffee House Writers Magazine. … please click on the link below to read my poem at Coffee House Writers

https://coffeehousewriters.com/in-this-limbo/

Ivor Steven (c) August 2021

May the Whales Find Their Tails

If you wish to purchase a copy of my book “Tullawalla”, the links below will help ..

Tullawalla is Available at Amazon (Paperback), https://www.amazon.com/Tullawalla-Ivor-Steven/dp/B099H47PWQ/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Tullawalla&qid=1629428327&sr=8-1

Tullawalla : Steven, Ivor, Harris, patricia, Costello, Kerri: Amazon.com.au: Books … ..especially for those living in Australia, with an Amazon.au account, postage is at local rates rates ..

May the Whales Find Their Tails

After climbing high into the clouds

Upon descending with rain and sunshine on your shroud

Life will fall on your shoulders, leaving you wise and proud

Then that full sail will always be your holy grail

And you can delete those old tell-tale snail trails

May the whales find their tails

And hopefully the quails will always wail

Ivor Steven (c) August 2021

Promote Yourself Mondays, August 23, 2021

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.

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Throwback Friday, Haven’t Seen You For a While, by Ivor Steven

This is a poem I wrote 10 years ago ..

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If you wish to purchase a copy of my book “Tullawalla”, the links below will help..

“Please Note“.. do not purchase the Hardcover book from Barnes & Noble .. they have meesed it up again

Tullawalla is Available at Amazon (Paperback),https://www.amazon.com/Tullawalla-Ivor-Steven/dp/B099H47PWQ/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Tullawalla&qid=1629428327&sr=8-1

Today I am presenting a poem, that didn’t make the final list, and was ‘cut’ from my new Book “Tullawalla”… Although I am not sure why I did not include “Haven’t Seen You for a While” in the book. ‘The poem was one that I placed in Carole’s funeral pamphlet’ (9 years ago)….

Haven’t Seen You for A While

Woke up dreaming of your petite smile

And pondering, I haven’t seen you for a while

That gentle smile making you so cute

So pleasing and alluring seems to suit

Dreaming of your grace and gorgeous style

And thinking, I haven’t seen you for a…

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Outlaws Without Claws

If you wish to purchase a copy of my book “Tullawalla”, the links below will help ..

“Please Note“.. do not purchase the Hardcover book from Barnes & Noble .. they have meesed it up again

Tullawalla is Available at Amazon (Paperback), https://www.amazon.com/Tullawalla-Ivor-Steven/dp/B099H47PWQ/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Tullawalla&qid=1629428327&sr=8-1

Tullawalla : Steven, Ivor, Harris, patricia, Costello, Kerri: Amazon.com.au: Books … ..especially for those living in Australia, with an Amazon.au account, postage is at local rates rates ..

Outlaws Without Claws

Here I am without resistance

Waiting for existance

To give me due cause

As to when my heart is allowed a pause

Away from lethal claws

And government outlaws

Ivor Steven (c) August 2021

Waiting In Line For My Time

All members of the Go Dog Go community, including Baristas, are welcome to participate. Feel free to share this post on your own blogs and/or Facebook.

Today’s prompt: What do you see in this photo? What do you feel? Express it in fifteen words or less
Visit the “Go Dog Go Cafe” Tuesday Prompt via this Link >> https://godoggocafe.com/2021/08/17/tuesday-writing-prompt-challenge-tuesday-august-17-2021/
Below is my ‘Fifteen Word’ poem

Waiting In Line For My Time

Am I the only one?
Am I early?
Or am I late?
For my wake

Ivor Steven (c) August 2021

Into The Glen: Into The Light

by Fae Corps Inc (Compiler)

‘Fae Corps Publishing’ has created a new Anthology, “Into The Glen: Into The Light” which is available now at Barnes & Noble, via this link >> https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/into-the-glen-fae-corps-inc/1139957472?ean=9781668523179
And I am pleased to announce my poem “The Faerie Shelter” was selected by the editors in this fabulous anthology of short stories and poetry…

An anthology of fae places focused mainly on the summer court.

With Stories By: Sergio Palumbo, Vonnie Winslow Crist, Mark Jabaut, Justine Johnston Hemmestad, B.F. Vega, Micheal Gillen, Kathleen Murphey, Andrew McDowell.
With Poetry By: Kate Meyer, Jericho Hockett, Serena Mossgraves, Raz T. Slasher, Kristin Roahrig, Fred Gerhard, Vonnie Winslow Crist, Ivor Steven, Buffy Aakaash, Katherine Quevedo
And Art By: Patricia Harris, Vonnie Winslow Crist, and Allene Nichols

And here is my poem, “The Faerie Shelter”

The Faerie Shelter, by Ivor Steven

Beyond the hands of time

In a garden of parsley, sage, and thyme

Live faeries of magic and rhyme

Dancing in the midnight faerie pantomime

Under the moonlit sky they frolic and roam

Among reeds of the field-mouse’s hidden home

Where the wise owl broods atop his mushroom

And dragonflies hover above mystical gnomes

Here guardian sprites defend the crimson forest

That stoically shelter Saraswati the Hindu goddess

As she dutifully protects the faeries secret hamlets

From horrid humans and their gargantuan spirits

Ivor Steven (c) August 2021