Category: A Throwback Friday Poem

Throwback Friday, Bohemian Lyrics

Today’s Throwback Friday poem is not on my Website but appears in my book “Tullawalla”, Chapter 6, page 101, and I wrote the original version in October 2019.



Bohemian Lyrics

What we imagine
And what is real
Are not the same deal
Dust, life’s spicks and specks
Are blended inside the earth’s vortex
We are only our solar system’s subjects
And beyond gathering grey clouds
There is, the stars sheltering shroud

Whatever the words, let them roll
Whatever the feelings, let them be our soul
Old lines drawn in the sand
May be erased by forgiving hands
Gaea’s liquid words caress the air we breathe
Capturing chords within the whispering trees

Time deflects in the end
Time rewinds and amends
Love is the world’s unwound relic
Love is an empty hearts’ bohemian lyric










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Ivor Steven (c) June 2024

Throwback Friday, Patiently, I Am Waiting

A poem I wrote in April 2021, about waiting for the Publisher to do the edit corrections and have my “new” book (Tullawalla) printed and look the way I wanted it to be!



Patiently, I Am Waiting

Patience drifts around the clock
Patience floats in dry-dock
Patience hovers in transit
Patience belies my spirit

Patiently I walk
Patiently I talk
Patiently I listen
Patiently I have forgiven

Patience is the essence
Patience is my sentence
Patience is my burden
Patience is my warden

Patiently I wait
Patiently I update
Patiently I sleep
And alone I weep

Patiently I Compromise
Patiently I will arise
Patiently I reactivate
Patiently I will gravitate
Patience commands my time
Patience is my crime



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Tullawalla:

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Ivor Steven (c) June 2024

Throwback Friday, Lost Horizon (a Tanka)

Today’s Throwback Friday poem is a follow-up to my Horizon/twilight poem/Tanka that I posted yesterday






Lost Horizon (a Tanka)


Running out of time

Inside today’s Twilight Zone

Drifting and alone

Searching for the pathway home

Beneath a lost horizon




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Until Eyes Hear Sound

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Perceptions:

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Tullawalla:

Amazon >> Tullawalla A Meeting Place Where My Empty Hands are Full of Memories and Rhymes : Steven, Ivor: Amazon.com.au: Books


OR: >> You may email me direct for a signed copy at
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Ivor Steven (c) June 2024

Throwback Friday, Every Ordinary Day

Today, my Throwback Friday poem was written on December 4th, 2020



Every Ordinary Day

If you look up
There is air and sky
If you look backward
There goes the sunset
If you look forward
Here comes sunrise
If you look sideways
There shines the fullness of the day

Look and you will feel
Nature sharing her love
Look and you will hear
Her crescendo of life’s adrenaline








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Tullawalla:

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Ivor Steven (c) May 2024

Throwback Friday, Our River (a Haiku Revised)

Dedicated to my dear wife, to celebrate her birthday on Wednesday the 17th of April. I think my words say enough …    I’m proud and honoured to present this Haiku as my “Throwback Friday” post today. Twelve years have passed and I’m quite emotional this week, and I apologise to fellow writers, and readers for not blogging and commenting with my usual zest.


Our River (a Haiku, Revised)


True love ebbs and flows

Hidden rocks etched our river

Stones soften to sand




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Ivor Steven (c) April 2024

Throwback Friday, Fiery Pearls and an Ambient Eye

I wrote this six-line poem back in July 2022, and as is my way, today, I have slightly altered the wording.

“Since I don’t believe in anything 
I can pretend about everything” … (anonymous)



Fiery Pearls and an Ambient Eye (Revised)



The stars are the universe’s fiery pearls

And when smoke falls into my eyes 

Her leftover embers rekindle my heart




The silver moon is my world’s ambient eye

And when my mind falls out of focus

Her warrior radiance enlightens my soul







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Ivor Steven (c) April 2024

Throwback Friday, Grumpy Bears in Chains

A poem I wrote in Nov 2020, which now appears in my new book “Until Eyes Hear Sound”


Grumpy Bears in Chains





The crashing noise started after midnight

When the growling thunder gave darkness a fright

I was shaken by the storms furious hard rain

Sounding like grumpy bears in chains

Thumping my iron roof with their heavy paws

And lashing at the awnings with their steely claws

Then the giant drops turned into falling ice blocks

And I rushed back inside to shelter behind the dog box








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Ivor Steven (c) March 2024

Throwback Friday, Purple Tomatoe Ferns

I found a poem in my old files yesterday, from September 2018. Here I have revised the wording slightly, but without losing any of the original’s impressive imagery.

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Purple Tomatoe Ferns (Revised)


I have hallucinations of Vikings sailing in the cold

Plundering forgotten hearts and pilfering gold


I am dreaming of the old farmer’s wife

Milking cows, cleaning, and baking for life


I have feelings for the king, in his isolated castle

Looking forlornly upon his drawbridge, a foodless trestle


I am wandering through an empty paddock

Kicking dew off the grass, searching for a lover’s locket


I have plans for the planet’s desolate future

Growing purple tomatoe ferns until they are mature


I remember her bravery, her ever-lasting smile

Crawling over jagged garden beds, every painful mile


I have finished falling under her broken sky

Claiming peace among tomorrow’s butterflies














Ivor Steven (c) March 2024

Throwback Friday, Moon Blossom

A “Moon” poem that I originally wrote in June 2019.




Moon Blossom


The old moon knows

After a bitterly cold winter

There’s never a false spring

And Eve’s apple tree always blossoms


Then the full moon shyly shines

Casting moon-shadows upon sacred ground

And asks about the planet’s fading designs

“Where have all the ancient spirits gone”




However, the new moon remains alluring

And his moonbeams spoon our imagination

Yellow ripples shimmering across blue lagoons

Casting moon-shadows over lovers’ bedrooms

And love eventually conquers us all

When moon blossom ringlets gently fall








Ivor Steven (c) March 2024

Throwback Friday, Did You Hear the Moon Call?

I have written and posted a number of “moon” poems lately, and there will be a full moon tomorrow night. So, my Throwback Friday Poem is another Moon Poem, “Did You Hear the Moon Call?, from September 2021






Did You Hear the Moon Call?



Time is an eternal sundial

The sun rises, and the sun sets

Tides roll in, tides go out

The rivers ebb and flow

And the gray clouds of life

Continue to fly on by


Curtains open, and curtains fall

The audience wants more

Feel the crowd roar

Last night, did you hear the moon call?







Until Eyes Hear Sound
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Ivor Steven (c) February 2024