An Old Plumber, An Ex-Carer, An Amateur Poet, Words From The Heart
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 universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors. – William Blake
Over at Weekly Prompts, the Weekend Challenge is their monthly Colour Challenge, and for August it is: Brown. To visit their fabulous site please click on >> Here. … And my connection to their prompt is that most of the books that I purchased at the Fair had the colour “Brown” represented in their cover designs …
On our way to the Box Office Cafe, I took Frankie to the Geelong West Rotary Book Fair at the Town Hall and I found ‘seven’ wonderful poetry books to add to my poetry collection at home … * The Collected Verse of A. B (Banjo) Paterson * The Poems of William Blake * New Selected Poems, Les Murray * A Child’s Garden of Verses, Robert Louis Stevenson * A Pocket Poet, Browning * Some of Me Poetry, Pam Ayres * Inspirations, Melinda A MacBeth (a self-published book, from Mansfield, Victoria, and printed by Mansfield Newspapers)
Below Images: I have scanned the Book Covers and attached a small poem from the book
Hello dear readers and followers, I am a writer for “Coffee House Writers magazine” (USA), on a fortnightly basis, and my poem “Every Rock I Kicked”, is in this week’s edition of Coffee House Writers Magazine. … To Read my poem, please click on the link below to visit the article, at Coffee House Writers Magazine. >> https://coffeehousewriters.com/every-rock-i-kicked/
It was a frosty Zero degrees this morning, so this Throwback poem from July 2022 was today’s appropriate choice
Jack’s Back
I woke at dawn And there was Jack Laying on my lawn
Good morning, Mr. Frost I am at a loss With the ground so white And the air’s bitter bite Why are called Jack? The Jacks I know from the outback Are all warmhearted folks And happy-go-lucky blokes Not cold-blooded guys Baptized by frozen skies
Are you a naughty and chilly skite? Or a noble defender of the night Jack! Today at first light You gave my warm toes an icy fright
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 I produce and as the saying goes “I Am Turning Another Page”. Here I have begun a new series of poem booklets, 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”. Incredibly, I now have “1763” Poems filed in these booklet formats!! (on my bookshelf I have “The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, which contains 1775 poems … when I first started writing poems, I never envisaged that I would produce so many poems … )
Click on >> Here. for the link to your FREE: PDF Copy of “Shangri La, Volume 9, Flowers in the Sky
Flowers in the Sky
Look up high Beyond yesterday’s goodbyes Until your eyes Are caressed by the sunny sky And savor the reason why Flowers strive to fly
Over at Weekly Prompts, as it is the last weekend of the month they are again giving us the challenge of The ‘One Day’ Prompt! To visit their fabulous site, please click on >> Here
My poem today is another “one” of those pieces made up of comments I posted on some of my fellow WordPress writers’ articles during the month. In stanza order, they are
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