Category: A Throwback Friday Poem

Throwback Friday, Who Has the Foggiest? (a Limerick)

Today I am presenting another poem that will be appearing in my new book “Until Eyes Hear Sound”. The ‘Limerick’ is also a relatively new poem format for me, and “Who Has the Foggiest” is a poem I wrote in May 2022, and it will be the opening piece in the ‘Other’ section of Chapter 10. Short Poems: Haiku, Senryu, Tanka, and Others





Who Has the Foggiest? (a Limerick)




I could not see the morning moon

There’s no sunshine in my breakfast spoon

The heaviest of fogs falls

I cannot hear the birds calls

Has our world condemned nature’s tune









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Ivor Steven (c) September 2023

Throwback Friday, Wonderment Rings True

Today I am presenting another poem that will be appearing in my new book “Until Eyes Hear Sound”. I wrote ‘Wonderment Rings True’ in September 2020, and the poem will be the opening piece in the Fantasy Section, of Chapter 9. Humour, Fantasy, Faeries, and Weird. 



Wonderment Rings True


My imagination’s beaming

Alive and dreaming

Even when I’m sleeping

Tired eyes are peeping

Searching for the milky-way

Flying there, on my open sleigh

And sailing the air-waves

High above broadway



Steering my spacecraft, Itmims**

While reading The Brothers Grimm

And playing a tune on my old violin

The theme from ‘Lord of the Rings’



I’m a visionary sky Pilot

With a handful of violets

Travelling beyond a silvery moon

To float upon our blue lagoon




**Itmims … “Ivor’s Time Machine In Micro Space”








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Ivor Steven (c) August 2023

Throwback Friday, Cocoons of Hope

Today’s ‘Throwback” poem, from September 2020, will appear in my upcoming new book “Until Eyes Hear Sound” … It’ll be the 1st poem in “Chapter 3. Nature and Existence”




Cocoons of Hope


the wizard’s blizzards have melted

dormant cocoons are wriggling

spring has exploded

out of the starter’s gun

with an awakening bang

and the chirpy blackbirds

are chorusing a different tune

their winter blue songs have gone

suddenly, warmth and sunshine

muster in the air

heralding a new season

of hope and prosperity






Tullawalla is Available From

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Ivor Steven: email, ivorrs20@gmail.com

Amazon: search via, ‘Tullawalla by Ivor Steven’


AND
Perceptions is Now Available via:

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Ivor Steven (c) June 2023

Throwback Friday, Black Snow Thaws in the Winter Sun

Today my ‘Throwback Friday’ poem, is from June 2019, and again, as is my way, I have slightly revised the original piece.

“I went to my favourite lunch-spot today, the Moorabool Valley Chocolate Cafe. I have not walked that far (the weather has been dismal), since I’ve been home from my trip to Philadelphia. Surprisingly I handled the long walk reasonably well. Then I sat down for a coffee and a piece of tasty blue-berry cheese cake. The winter sun was gorgeous, out on the outdoor balcony, and I happily observed a pair of Weebill birds, as I continued to write this poem(Below).





Black Snow Thaws In The Winter Sun (Revised)


I’ve no more secret words of sorrow

Only old lines I’ve borrowed

I found them in a poet’s dusty booklet

The pages were tattered, like grandma’s cookbook

Hidden in the family’s sacred cabinet

Faded words that now appear outdated

Years of love and dreams relegated

Stored away, but prudently not wasted

My road ahead is now cleared of black snow

The night is not always dark, you know?






Ivor Steven (c) May 2023

Throwback Friday, Dark Blue

A poem I wrote in January 2022, however, as is my way, I have revised and renamed the poem for my article today … the original title was Black and Blue



Dark Blue



fatigue is chorused by hidden mockingbirds

lethargic attitudes fall over backwards

tiredness melts blue lines into blurry words



weariness distorts midnight’s dark thoughts

and exhaustion eventually sinks a listing Argonaut



Today’s music/video: Is Damien Rice singing Leonard Cohen’s classic “Famous Blue Raincoat” … and fortunately, I am going see the amazing Damien Rice perform “Live” here in Geelong next Thursday night …







Ivor Steven (c) May 2023

Throwback Friday, Today’s Fragments (Revised)

Today’s ‘Throwback Friday’ poem is from my remembrance week a year ago

“Below; I have formed one poem out of four Senryu that I wrote this morning, and I have many fractured thoughts within my soul, a decade after Carole’s passing on May 3rd 2012 at 1.15pm …“

Today’s Fragments (Revised)
(A four Senryu poem)


I am who I am
I can’t be another man 
She’s my hologram

I sat beside her 
Next to yesterday’s campfire 
Embers in the wind 

A red flame flickers 
Above her celestial star 
My eternal light  

On my island home 
Sea mist falls across my arms
Completion awaits 


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Tullawalla is Available From

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Ivor Steven: email, ivorrs20@gmail.com

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AND
Perceptions is Now Available via:

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Ivor Steven (c) May 2023