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.

Broken Wheel, a Haiku

This Saturday, the Weekend Challenge from “Weekly Prompts is Wheels . Please go over and check out their fabulous site by clicking > HERE .

Broken Wheel

The world spins around

Our earth’s a merrygoround

Full of toxic spokes

Ivor Steven (c) April 2021

Heart Beats Anthology, Live Readings

I have three of my poems in the “Heart Beats” anthology, which was diligently edited by Lisa Tomey and published via her magazine site “Prolific Pulse” … and tomorrow I’ll be reciting my poems, along with the other fabulous authors, on a Live show that you are invite to attend…

All are invited to attend.

https://www.meetup.com/Living-Poetry/events/277299537/

your attendance via Meetup, an online platform that makes it easy for community to gather in one place for an event.

If you miss the live reading or cannot attend, Lisa will be posting a recording of it to her Prolific Pulse Youtube Channel.

I will be attending the Saturday evening session… 7.00 pm EST… or in Australia on Sunday morning at .. 9.00 pm…

Ivor Steven (c) April 2021

Invisible Why and When

At the moment I am reading Walt Whitman’s ‘Leaves of Grass and Selected Poems and Prose’ that I borrowed from the Geelong Library, and after reading only 60 pages, I am aready amazed enough to go ahead and purchase a copy for my bookshelf, and his writings motivated me to write the below poem today…

Invisible Why and When

In the midst of my life

I am still using her carving knife

Between here and there

I am still climbing through the air

Between blank lines and my velvet pen

I am still writing about invisible why and when

Between whom I hear and what I see

I am still searching for the olive tree

Between her star and the dark side of the moon

I can still reach the man with a silver spoon

Between her broken mirror and my empty glass

I can still feel the universe in a blade of grass

Ivor Steven (c) April 2021

Dumping Our Sumps

My Belmont Page Creative Writing Group is held on Thursday’s, and our ‘Thought Prompter’ sentence for this week is ‘Time to put the garbage out.’ and below is my response that I shall be reading to the group tomorrow

Also, This week’s Wednesday Challenge on “Weekly Prompts” is the word: RUINED MERCHANDISE. Please go over and visit their fabulous site by clicking >> Here.

Dumping Our Sumps

Our garbage bin is full to the top

And overflowing with filthy slop

Contaminated dirt is spilling onto the tarmacs

Nuclear waste is seeping through the cracks

Dead batteries melt into poisonous wax

As empty aerosol cans add to our air’s death tax

Plastic bags are filled with grubby plastic packs

Eventually resurfacing as our oceans strangulation traps

Where do we dump our polluted fallout?

When will it be time to put the garbage out?

Ivor Steven (c) April 2021

After, (a Haiku)

At the morn I peep

Eyes open wide to the light

Seeing future moons

Ivor Steven (c) April 2021

I Do Confess

a weekend of reflection

remembering a lost affection

visions of togetherness

recalling times of happiness

smiles and a violet dress

laughing, despite life’s duress

within a body possessed

languishing on a cross unsuppressed

a spiraling metamorphosis

a star’s incandescence

Ivor Steven (c) April 2021

Promote Yourself Monday, April 5, 2021

Dear readers and followers, I hope you are having a pleasant Easter break, and 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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Go Dog Go Café

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.